AIdeas 💡 - AI generated startup ideas!

A way to keep track of your health insurance, insurance claims, and health care expenses.

A startup that provides a gamified platform to help businesses understand and improve products and services to their customers. The startup sees itself as a kind of “Twilio for data”.

A software product that connects salespeople to prospects and enables them to follow up after the sale.

A startup that combines cloud data storage and analytics to help improve IT decision making.

Using AI, this startup aims to make it easier for people to help their friends and family by text. The platform is currently running in beta in New York City for the time being.

A tool that helps companies convert web traffic into revenue. It’s an example of a promising tool that will help democratize data.

A startup for people to rent items, like bikes, skis, surfboards, etc. from their neighbors, when they’re not using them.

iau is building a tool to make it easier for marketers to track their digital campaigns, helping them get more data on their marketing efforts. The startup says it’s already working with over 50 marketing agencies.

A company that helps food trucks get paid for food that was previously ordered but never delivered, taking the hassle out of money transfers and payments.

A company that aims to make low-risk, high-return investments in real estate.

A GitHub alternative that will allow developers to host their code outside of GitHub's walled garden.

This startup is developing a platform for automated “in house” customer service, which the company claims reduces the cost of customer support.

A startup that helps MIT researchers start new companies. It’s a new twist on a classic idea, as the startup connects entrepreneurs with researchers to facilitate their work.

Mainly a podcast company with a new focus on music and creative content.

A start-up that wants to replace the messy and outdated process of filling out tax forms with a website that will do the whole job for you. Taxcobo’s CEO says his company can save you 10 hours of work a year, or about $1,000, and its employees are former tax professionals.

This is a startup that has the goal of “making it easier” for home-schooling parents to manage their families’ finances.

A London startup that helps drone pilots track down lost drones.

A startup for connecting people with legal representation when they’re in trouble.

A social grocery store that allows users to order groceries through a single platform to have them delivered.

A home delivery service for groceries, fully automated. Currently working in San Francisco.

A tool for managing your social media accounts, allowing users to see their entire social media feed on one dashboard.

This startup is building a messaging app for drivers. It allows drivers to rate their drivers, look for companies that are hiring, and even find new carpools.

This startup is building kitchen tools that let you build food, order food, and pay for it all online.

A “bottom of the funnel” growth platform for B2B companies. Based in Vancouver, the platform helps businesses identify leads and convert them into paying customers.

A “digital-first investment firm” that aims to make using the site easy and painless. They’re in the early stages of beta, and have just made their first investment.

A startup that strives to be the Google of the health care industry by helping doctors get the information they need to make the best medical decisions.

A new way of making yogurt. Instead of a starter culture, they grow the yogurt with probiotics.

A Paris-based digital marketplace for people who want to sell their unused items.

A startup with the aim of lowering the cost of delivering medical care to remote regions. The company wants to build a tele-health network where doctors can treat patients remotely.

A web services platform that connects developers and organizations to build web-based apps to run on any device.

A startup that trains people to do things like sell physical products on Etsy.

A company that creates a line of high-end electric scooters for use in urban areas, no motorcycle license required.

A crowdfunding platform for startups, allowing people to invest in entrepreneurs as a way to get access to a new product before it’s ready for the market. Borrowing the model of Kickstarter, AngelList connects people with startups without the need to make a down payment.

The Parisian startup is building a digital version of a tour guide. The app will help people feel more connected to a place and know more about it than they currently do. The company has already raised €4.1 million and is currently on track to close a €5 million round.

On-demand service for the storage and transfer of digital photos.

A shopping app in India that helps users buy online and has a loyalty program. The startup has a reported 4 million users.

A company that lets businesses sell discounted subscriptions to their members.

A content management system built on a social media platform, designed for agencies, PR professionals and creative entrepreneurs

The startup aims to provide an A/B testing platform for websites, letting users test different colour schemes and layouts.

This is an employee referral tool that helps companies make more effective referrals.

A tool tasked with helping local governments and non-profits collaborate through digital tools.

We’ve talked before about Airtable, an app that lets you organize your data and share it with teams. They’ve recently launched a new feature that lets you share spreadsheets with a link for copying and pasting.

(BETA) A social network, which takes the form of a game, where users can win rewards for answering questions.

The idea is to build a platform that makes it easier to manage and collaborate on Excel spreadsheets, which would be useful for people working on projects with a lot of data that they need to send around.

In terms of what these startups are trying to accomplish, they all have slightly different goals, but they are all trying to solve the same problem. What they have in common is they are building solutions that are focused around simplifying the experience of managing data, both of the data and the tools used to manage it.

This is an online video platform for people who want to produce content without needing to learn how to edit video. The app helps users create video with professional-level effects and edits, and allows users to share their videos on social media.

“A personal assistant for your meetings and travel arrangements”.

A company that helps people hunt for and find the right home for them. The B2B business takes a more detailed look into the details of a home’s design and location, while the B2C service takes a more granular approach to the home’s amenities and location.

A startup that helps businesses in the UK get the cheapest rates on international shipping

A way to allow people to get paid to play games. People earn money by playing games online or via streaming.

idea: A startup for professional freelance writers to sell their work.

A platform that helps vendors find distributors that can offer them a better deal.

Twilio, a company that provides cloud-based communication and telephony APIs, is one of the most well-known startups at YC. Their newest project is a tool that helps call center agents manage multiple languages.

A tool that helps users track their fitness progress, measure calories burned, and connect with friends.

A platform for selling products on Amazon that don’t have a legitimate Amazon Prime shipping option, but you can still get free two-day shipping.

A startup that helps people get around their cities by providing to-do lists, and letting them chat with others to help them get around.

A workout program that keeps track of how many calories you’re burning.

This app connects users with local barbershops and salons. These are user-managed shops that the startup connects with through its own app.

A tool for geotagging photos and videos on iOS devices, and an app that creates photo collages from your photos.

This startup wants to be the Netflix of dating. It wants to connect couples by matching them based on what they’re looking for in a partner. It also wants to keep track of everything couples do together.

A software platform that allows users to control and visualize their data. The goal is to provide a user-friendly interface that allows users to visualize, analyze and make decisions across their data, and tell what’s happening and what they can do about it. Think of it as a personal dashboard for your own data.

Slack is a project management and chat platform for teams and groups. Slack builds software as a service (SaaS) products, which are web-based applications that companies or organizations can use instead of having to install or maintain software on their own computer.

A digital lending library for small business owners.

A startup that helps people manage their credit score

The founders of this company want to build a more connected and secure version of Amazon’s Alexa, one that can work with smart home devices and allow users to access the internet through their voice.

We’ve talked before about Airtable, an app that lets you organize your data and share it with teams. They’ve recently launched a new feature that lets you share spreadsheets with a link for copying and pasting.

A startup that built a platform for making music, which is now being built into an app

A software platform for publishers to create, share, and monetize digital magazines. The company is a digital media company and content platform service provider.

A platform for fashion brands to manage their products, with a lean startup that seeks to build a marketplace where brands can sell their products directly to consumers.

A B2B SaaS that provides data visualization and analytics for organizations, allowing them to quickly create and analyze reports and charts.

A tool to help people find out which of their friends are on the same flight as them.

A startup that helps people with finding and organizing their digital photos

A hardware startup that’s building a ground-based sensor network to monitor air pollution, with an eye towards monitoring air quality in the developing world.

A system that gives builders and renovators an easy way to track down previous owners and use the information to create a more authentic renovation process. The startup says it has already helped about 10,000 customers, with 3,000 of those using it to find previous owners.

This startup is building a network of community centers, but with a twist — they’re using all-online technology to make it easier for users to access services.

A startup that helps small-business owners and managers track and manage their expenses with a suite of easy to use tools

When you want to buy a new coat, you order it from a store. When you want to buy a new car, you do the same, and your credit card company gets in touch with you. When you want to buy a new smartphone, you have to go through the same process. It’s a bit of a hassle, and it costs a lot of money.

Open source software meant to help e-commerce sites track items in their inventory. Marketers want to know where to buy their products and what items are selling.

A peer-to-peer credit marketplace that matches borrowers and investors in the US

A software development startup that uses Slack to streamline the process of creating new apps, and has moved on to building new apps and services itself.

A startup that provides a service to help people get their business up and running in another country

This is a company that aims to build a free, open-source, community-driven framework that makes it easy to build chatbots. The team is looking to build out a bot-building platform that allows you to create your own chatbot with just a couple of clicks and then download the bot as an app.

A private social network for women in Saudi Arabia, where women are nearly banned from working or even being on the internet.

The company is creating a new model for live-streaming video, designed for companies and clients to create live broadcasts at their own pace.

This company’s founders were previously in the gaming industry, and want to help make that industry more inclusive. The startup is building a platform to help game developers with user acquisition and retention by building in features for “people of color, women, and LGBTQ people.”

A digital marketing agency built to help businesses compete on social media. The company wants to help businesses build lists, track engagement and build loyalty.

A startup that is building an AI-powered chatbot to help you find and buy your favorite sneakers. Users can create an account with the startup and then have the chatbot ask them questions about their favorite sneakers.

A team health and fitness app with a day-by-day view of your schedule, tracking your reps, sets, rest and rest-pause sessions. The app also creates a social network around your workouts, creating a community around shared fitness goals.

This company is building a mobile app meant to allow people to book appointments with a doctor.

The company functions as a type of a social network for the sales and marketing needs of companies. It’s based on the idea that, for marketing purposes, companies should be their own customers. The startup is currently in beta, working on launching a mobile app, and is still in the seed stage.

A platform that enables investors to raise money with a single filing, much like a SaaS product.

A startup offering to hire and manage employees for small to medium businesses.

A new way to manage data and big data, with an emphasis on security and compliance.

A platform that lets you build custom quizzes, sortable by question difficulty, time and topic.

A software development startup that uses Slack to streamline the process of creating new apps, and has moved on to building new apps and services itself.

A digital assistant for financial services.

A platform that lets you upload your own smart contracts onto the Ethereum blockchain.

The startup is building a new standard for what an API is. The company gathers data from over 20 APIs, then organizes it into a single, self-contained API.

Yieldbot is a property management software startup looking to help people manage their real estate investment properties, and get an extra return on their investment.

A startup that provides tools for fashion brand managers reviewing their own website performance and getting analytics from Google Analytics.

A company that wants to take the lead in creating a system to pay for things at the point of delivery.

A solution for people to get around restrictions on the internet.

Being a photographer is a full-time job, and the photos you take often end up in a gallery or on someone’s Instagram for a few hours before disappearing. But with this startup, you can make money from those screenshots and still get paid for them after.

A hand-held device to track and manage medical supplies and patient inventory

A SaaS-based service for retailers that helps them manage their shipping.

A platform that helps companies run meetings, trainings, and events. They’re working with over 200 organizations and have 10,000 paid users and 1 million free users.

A startup that’s building a one-stop shop for small businesses that spans several different verticals, including payroll, accounting and consulting.

A startup that helps companies order supplies, save money by consolidating orders, and get information about their order from real-time data.

CEO of the startup is a former Google engineer that says they are “building a better way to do recruiting”

Wheelchair-mounted fans to cool you down while you’re sitting in a wheelchair. The startup is among the first contestants into a new category for Kickstarter called “Mobility” that the company says is meant to help bring people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to take part in crowdfunding to the platform.

Startup that wants to simplify the process for consumers to order their own produce from local farms.

SaaS that lets you organize your expenses by spending category, expense type, date, amount, and more.

A startup that produces renewable energy and products from biomass.

A company that helps people determine if they have a health condition that warrants a visit to a doctor.

A company that provides a way for users to access health insurance across all markets for a month. The startup is expanding to the US.

A startup that helps Russian companies in the manufacturing industry source materials and negotiate deals.

A marketing automation platform for retail brands. The company is planning to roll out a mobile app in mid-August.

A digital health startup that builds patient-facing tools to help doctors educate patients on their conditions and symptoms.

A tool that lets retailers build out-of-home experiences.

A new digital platform that helps businesses manage their own digital presence on social media, allowing them to have a single URL, a single account, and a single look on all their social media.

This is a tool to help people make better decisions about their financial lives. The company wants to help people crunch and visualize financial data in order to make better decisions. Part of that is tracking their spending.

A product that helps people with chronic pain by suggesting medicines that are complementary to other treatments, preventing them from having to stop their treatment unnecessarily.

A web-based platform that makes it easier for content creators to manage their social media streams, with the goal of helping them better manage their brand.

This startup allows businesses to track their online/social media marketing, and also offers a way to get promoted for sharing interesting content.

A startup that aims to replace the human factor with machine learning to make sales and customer service easier.

A crowdfunding platform for original video content.

A facial recognition startup that lets brands create custom-built advertisements by uploading a photograph of a user and getting a real-time computer-generated version to match with the real one.

An idea management and idea exchange platform.

A platform that helps restaurants manage their supply chain and order inventory to keep the stores stocked. The startup was acquired by the parent company of Whole Foods.

A startup that helps people learn to speak other languages. The startup aims to use gamification and gamified courses to help people learn foreign languages.

This L.A.-based startup is building a solution that connects “millennials” with their favorite brands and stores.

This is a startup that combines the likes of Stripe, PayPal and Venmo in one platform. It’s a payment processing platform for merchants in the US.

A startup that sells a subscription service that sends someone to clean your house once a month. The startup is advertising the service on Facebook, reaching a lot of potential customers that have seen its ads and are interested in it.

An AI-based solution for managing customer service, with plans to launch in February.

An AI-driven startup that aims to predict which people will die from cancer.

A startup that creates online courses that teach people how to do common home repairs

People who want to start a company but don’t know how to do so can learn to do it from this startup. They teach entrepreneurs how to raise small amounts of money, how to run a team, and how to keep track of their business.

A platform for small businesses to get financial advice and coaching from experts

A global, affordable, and easy-to-use online document-to-evidence service.

A digital platform for retailers to sell products without needing to collect payments.

A tool to help organizations centralize their communication. The app makes it easy to send messages to all employees or just a handful of people.

This startup is building a platform to help journalists write better. It’s best for longer writing, and it lets you know which writing styles and topics are best for you.

A company that builds out the infrastructure for building a new car. They work directly with the auto manufacturing industry, which they say is the only industry in the world that doesn’t have a good online way for customers to assemble the car they’ve bought.

An image-capture app for the visually impaired. The startup is building an app that would let people with a visual impairment read images and make them accessible to other people. It’s currently working on a no-cost product for people with low vision.

A social media platform for artists, who can use it to share their work and connect with other artists.

A platform that lets homeowners and renters connect with each other and build a pool of resources for what they need.

A company that helps companies manage their customers by offering sales and marketing insights, as well as a “C-suite of customer-experience experts”

A startup that lets you send and receive payments with your bank account, but also with your phone.

A platform for online retailers to sell products, primarily on Amazon, Shopify, and AliExpress. The startup wants to provide more of a full platform for e-commerce companies, allowing them to accept payments, manage inventory and payment processing, and integrate with Stripe to get paid.

PetMD is a vet-tech startup that helps pet owners with a range of services, from consulting to pet care. It has a “pet concierge” service to help owners with questions like what to feed their pets when taking them to the vet, and what food to pick up on the way home.

A startup that aims to use machine learning to predict which people will be most receptive to a new product.

A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.

A startup that will sell you gear that can help you monitor and control your pets remotely, with a focus on helping pet owners in developing countries.

A platform for restaurants to accept online orders and better manage their relationships with customers. The startup helps restaurants find and track customers, manage orders, and build loyalty.

This startup helps companies digitize their product development processes. The company combines machine learning, AI, and blockchain to help product teams automate their processes.

A company that offers a closed-loop technology for managing real-time customer service representatives. Unbounce’s system enables companies to manage customer interactions in real-time, and give back control of the customer’s experience to the organization.

The company's premise is to deliver a social network built around music, where users can interact with other artists. As it's a start-up, its scope is limited, but it's got a solid team of artists and managers backing it.

A mobile app that helps people track down the best restaurants nearby for whatever occasion they are looking to host.

A company that provides a “No-Wait” service for restaurants, with the goal being that customers don’t have to wait 10 minutes for their food, but can order and get it before they leave the restaurant. The company has partnered with six San Francisco restaurants and revenue is growing.

A software company that makes “tools that help the world’s leading brands and agencies build and run their multi-channel customer engagement programs.”

A startup that provides a platform for the creation of high-end products that helps you collaborate with other artists to create custom products.

A platform that connects local businesses with customers, and helps them deliver packages directly to the customer’s door.

A two-sided marketplace that connects brands with influencers, allowing influencers to sell their followers’ opinions on products they endorse on Instagram.

Idea: Notification-Based B2B Communications

A three-year-old company building a real-time communication and collaboration platform for businesses and teams. It’s a tool that helps teams stay on the same page, and communicate as they work.

A startup in San Francisco that wants to help you track your data on your phone, through a “personal dashboard” that helps you understand and use data to improve your health. The startup’s primary goal is to build an app that will help people decide what medical procedures they want to have done today and in the future, and then be able to track the status of those procedures through an app.

A platform for employees to sell donated items to raise money for charity.

A software tool that helps companies manage expenses, track their spending, and make more money. The startup is looking to work with large corporations.

A startup to help you manage your data and stay up to date on what’s legally allowed access to your data

A finance startup that helps businesses manage their money in a better way, using their own data and algorithms to optimize spending and savings.

A platform that lets you order custom-made clothes from over 1 million products.

A startup that allows parents to track their kids’ and teens’ activities. The startup is currently focused on South Africa.

A startup that wants to make live video marketing as simple as possible for brands. The company’s founders say they’ve already helped over 1,000 brands, and are having success with brands like Best Buy.

A blockchain-based platform that helps independent software vendors monetize their software via a network of app stores.

This startup is a real estate marketplace for owners to rent out their properties for short-term stays, like Airbnb. They have over 25,000 properties on their platform.

A startup that lets you create a custom, branded, and optimized mobile application using the same platform that’s used by Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

A music streaming service that helps you better discover new artists and tracks

A digital warehouse that helps artists store and stream their work.

The founders walked away from their jobs in the technology industry to focus on food, and built a tech app that makes it easier and cheaper for restaurants to source from local farmers.

A “social network for remote companies”, allowing employees to share what they’re working on.

This startup is building a startup incubator for technology startups in China.

This startup that makes a “virtual shared workspace”.

A data analytics company that wants to crack the code on how to use data science to identify influencers in social media.

A startup that helps people find and book restaurants and make reservations. It’s already used for over 1,000 reservations.

A company that wants to help you grow your business by giving you the tools to make smart decisions.

A startup that helps businesses find out how many customers they have, how much they spend and where they came from.

A platform for employers to manage their recruiting needs without having to use their own infrastructure. It currently has 35 customers.

A startup building a “vertical-first” social network. The startup says it’s “targeting the very oldest of the old”, helping people who are looking to connect with people who are older than 50.

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A tool for helping companies quickly build their own email marketing campaigns. The startup helps businesses with their email marketing needs and is already working with companies like The New Republic and The New York Times.

A tool for bookkeepers to do accounting.

A collection of online educational materials available for free.

A software company that can help companies provide the data about their customers that’ll help them make better, more personal, and more relevant marketing.

A company that builds a software-as-a-service platform that helps people manage their wealth.They provide a way to create a savings plan that’s customizable based on the user’s specific needs. They also provide a digital portfolio that allows people to manage all of their financial accounts in one place.

A web-based platform to create and manage Skype and Google Hangouts meetings.

A startup that connects companies that need a developer to work on their mobile app with those looking to hire a developer.

A way to know when a shipment will arrive. The company is building a mobile app that allows truckers to track the progress of their shipments in real-time.

Idea: Schedule, organize, and pay for a group vacation

A company that wants to sell tools used for computer-aided design.

A startup to help you manage your data and stay up to date on what’s legally allowed access to your data

A company that looks to make it easier for people to order delivery from restaurants through their cell phone, using an app.

This startup is looking to help people invest in property in ways that are cheaper and more secure than the usual methods.

A personalized recommendation platform that helps you discover new apps and games. The startup offers a $1 per month premium subscription that displays recommendations based on your taste in games or other things.

“A platform that allows you to connect with professionals in your area,” as the pitch goes.

A “street level” mobile app that helps users select a local driver to take them to their destination, and pay for the trip via the app.

A platform that lets you quickly create and launch a new website, 24 hours later.

A startup to help brands and marketers who want to promote their products on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

A network of e-commerce businesses all operating on one platform.

Helps companies manage their customer relationships, including payments, strategy, and communication.

A SaaS solution that helps software developers build and manage mobile applications. The startup is looking to allow companies to create a mobile application for any of their products, with the system automatically building the app for them.

A platform that helps companies build their own “anchor stores” — the “experiences” that people want to do in a particular city. For example, a company like Amazon might want to open up a store in San Francisco, but they’re not the first company to do so. The startup builds out a list of all the other stores in the area, and allows companies to apply to open up a new one.

A company that provides a platform to connect small businesses to vendors, giving them a chance to expand their business without committing to a big purchase.

A platform that helps companies manage, track and monetize their content. They have three enterprise customers on board, including T-Mobile and a law firm.

A dateable dating app, not unlike Bumble.

A messaging app, with a mobile web client to allow for SMS-based communication without a smartphone. The company is working on a browser-based client for non-mobile devices and has raised $3.5M in funding from Y Combinator.

idea: A retail platform that helps brands and small retailers manage inventory and product pages across multiple sites. The startup helps brands manage product listings and marketing on a single user interface by combining real-time analytics and inventory management.

A startup that creates travel guides on how to get around the world by car, bicycle, or on foot, designed to help travelers get better acquainted with the local culture and environment.

Leading-edge technology company that offers software and services to help Internet companies manage their content, protecting them from copyright infringement and piracy.

A mobile app that helps you track the miles you’ve walked and the calories you’ve burned.

A mobile app that uses the phone’s accelerometer to detect whether a user is walking and provide immediate feedback on how to improve eating and exercise habits.

This software company helps manufacturers build products faster and more accurately.

A startup for selling and buying used cars. The startup plans to build a national network of used car dealers to help consumers meet sellers of similar cars. The startup will take a moderate percentage of the sale.

A real-time collaboration tool that allows teams to casually or formally review work in progress.

Blockchain-based invoice financing for startups, which uses smart contracts to allow companies to leverage their own cash flow to finance new acquisitions.

An online bank for consumers with low to moderate incomes.

A way for consumers to sell their old electronics and get paid for it, using an app that makes it easy for the buyer to scan barcodes.

A shopping app that brings product discovery, price and availability data to comparison shopping, with an emphasis on simplicity.

The startup is building a marketplace for artisans to sell their goods online. The goal is to build out enough consumer demand to build out a sustainable model for farmers.

A startup for sharing and selling surplus office equipment.

A project management tool for teams that allows them to create their own Slack team channels.

Idea: This startup is building a platform for people to have food delivered from restaurants that have closed for the day The company says it has 200 weekly users, and an average order size of $10

An online marketplace for gym memberships. It allows users to book time at a gym with the click of a button.

A design space for Italian designers, fitting their aesthetic and culture into a marketplace that will be a global one.

This startup is working to make it easier for people to find and buy insurance online. The startup is a relatively quick study that completed YC’s Startup School program in June.

A platform that helps students find jobs, with a focus on students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields and veterans.

A B2B SaaS that helps insurance companies track and manage their risk.

Idea: A 3D audio startup that is trying to make podcasting more immersive by using binaural audio. The app has a pretty strong take on the future of podcasting, and its founder says that the company is profitable.

A software platform that helps people create and manage the soundtrack to their life. The software allows you to search and dig through your collection of tunes, create playlists, and categorize them.

An AI assistant that learns from your conversations and can perform a number of tasks like shopping, booking travel, and scheduling meetings.

A digital marketing platform for lifestyle brands, creating an app for brands to manage and grow their digital presence.

The startup helps small businesses automate marketing, by sending out daily messages about sales, discounts and promotions.

A coworking space for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners.

A free app that allows users to take photos and add custom stickers to them to share them on Instagram.

A small-business website that’s a “one-stop shop for all things small business — from marketing to accounting.”

Idea: A hardware startup looking to build a “developer’s dream”, a library of easy-to-use and open source hardware tools for electronics prototyping.

A way for people to buy and sell things online. The company also works on a feature to group items into “rooms” that users can browse by category.

In a blog post, the company announced a new product called “Individual Plans”, which allow you to customize your coverage and how much risk you’re willing to take.

A startup that provides a service for people to record a speech or presentation and then have it transcribed

A SaaS for customer support that provides customer service agents with real-time access to their customers’ data via their Slack channel; customers can also store their data in the system and keep it organized

A platform that allows drivers to earn money by sharing their knowledge of different cities.

A social network for immigrants in the United States. The startup wants to create a community where immigrants can connect with each other and immigrant-owned businesses.

A text messaging service that uses automated language translation to translate the words of a conversation between two people in real time. It was started in 2012 by a group of PhD students and has raised just under $5 million in funding.

A company that provides a platform for building and managing digital mood boards, an online tool for displaying mood-related images, GIFs, and videos.

A business software platform that helps real estate agents sell their listings online.

An employee-owned co-living space in the heart of New York City in which residents can rent private rooms for $1,000 a month with monthly fees of $200.

This is a tool for people who want to get paid to write content for others, and it’s built on the WordPress platform. It lets people write blog posts, copywriting articles, or any other type of content for clients.

A tool for scouts to manage datagrids.

This startup is building an AI chatbot that it says will help you land an interview with a company, and hopefully get an offer of employment.

SaaS that helps businesses keep track of what they have in stock and how fast they’re running out of it.

A data analytics platform for public companies, meant to make it easier for them to access, sort, and analyze financial data.

App is a service that lets users search their phone’s address book for a business.

A SaaS company that helps companies manage their data. The startup provides a suite of APIs to automate data collection and analysis.

A startup that aims to be a kind of Airbnb for salespeople, connecting salespeople to sales leads and helping them find new clients.

The startup has built a software platform that lets its customers create, manage, and publish road-side signs in multiple languages. The company, which was founded in 2012, has raised $4.5 million in funding, including a $1.5 million investment from Digital Garage in August 2017.

A machine-learning platform that helps companies find people qualified for their job.

A localized social network for the Japanese market. The startup currently has 30,000 users in its beta.

A startup that helps organizations run and monitor their internal communications. The startup aims to help organizations automate their internal communication, which could be leveraging tools like Slack, Yammer, or even email, to run processes like alerts and promotions.

This startup is building an API for automated compliance. The company says that after launching in May, it’s already working with over 250 companies.

This is a platform for companies to provide remote workers with access to office computers, phone, email and software.

A smart phone app that makes it easier to find the cheapest airfare for travel on Facebook. The startup has already seen success with the app, and says they’ve seen a 150% increase in the number of people in India who use it on a daily basis.

A company that helps you track, manage, and pay for your cable and internet bill.

A way to send content from a phone to the TV, like a cable box. On the TV, viewers watch it on their edgeless screens.

This startup is developing a platform for smart contracts that automatically execute when specified conditions are met.

A platform for job seekers to search for jobs using data from LinkedIn

A data analytics company that helps people see their customers’ spending habits.

The startup helps startups sell their products on Amazon and eBay in the US.

A company that uses AI to identify and track the video views on social media channels in real time.

A tool that helps entrepreneurs find customers by promising to help them find people who want to buy their products. The startup is currently in the process of being acquired by a larger consumer-facing company.

A startup for the sale of travel services, including package tours, hotel stays, car rentals, and more. The company does not charge commissions.

A company that makes it easy to apply for jobs, whether you’re over 50, a first-time job seeker, a veteran, or just a beginner. The company wants to help people connect with jobs and find a new path.

A delivery service that promises to deliver items from online retailers within two hours.

In an interview with TechCrunch, the company said it was building a “mobile first,” “on-demand” fully-distributed video streaming platform.

A new company that wants to make wireless charging more convenient, and aims to make the charging cord no longer necessary.

An online tool for the restaurant industry that enables companies to manage inventory, control orders, and order supplies from a single dashboard.

A platform that helps small businesses optimize their sites for search through visual conversion. The startup is currently in private beta.

A startup that helps designers and developers build custom plugins for their sites.

A startup that’s building a platform to help marketers tap into crowdsource data to help make their marketing campaigns more effective.

A customizable subscription box for people that use the platform.

A video and media startup in the Philippines that’s building a system that allows people to create and upload videos in real-time, and then share them with their networks in a live manner.

A way to find a new job. The startup is now on a $2 million seed round, and is a spin-off from the company Helping Hand, which is launching a new email outreach service.

A startup that’s building a tool for companies, hospitals, and schools to track and analyze their employee’s health.

A digital ad-blocking tool for iOS and Android.

“We’re taking a page out of the mobile-first approach and looking at the entire customer lifecycle. We’re starting with the customer funnel and and the transaction cycle.”

A startup that provides a payment service that allows customers to pay vendors and employees with a phone call. Will launch in NY, NY in October.

A B2B company that builds software to help companies manage their “value-at-risk”, an estimate of how much money they could lose each year if things go awry.

Fingers is a web-based email app for teams that aims to look familiar to those who’ve used Microsoft Outlook, and is for teams that are already using Microsoft Office. It allows users to set up and share meetings, schedules, and tasks.

A pet tracking technology that lets you see where your dog is, even when they’re asleep

A way for hospitality workers to help customers by answering questions about local attractions, food recommendations and more.

A project management platform: “Many small businesses are managing their projects themselves,” said CEO Ben. “We want to help them have access to the same data and value proposition that large companies have.”

For the past two months, the startup has been building a platform that helps people find jobs, with a focus on the job seeker. The solution is built on an AI that scours through job listings, and a platform that allows job seekers to better manage their resumes.

This startup is building a tool that allows you to create your own “mini social network” across apps, like Facebook for your phone.

A SaaS product for helping advertisers capture the best customer data and target them with the best possible campaigns, by pulling in data from across the web.

A platform for online stores to build and manage their own e-commerce store through a web browser or mobile app. Currently, it has over 500 stores registered.

A software company that provides cloud-based services for auditors to ensure that companies are filing their taxes correctly.

A vendor that allows customers to pay with Bitcoin. The startup wants to make the cryptocurrency easy to use.

A startup that wants to help people become more efficient at managing their money. It’s charging people a monthly fee to manage their money for them.

A tool for building and testing native mobile apps using an iOS emulator.

An online marketplace that connects advertisers and content producers to get ads to viewers of their content without them knowing they are watching ads.

A platform for people to find and book daycare for their kids, partnering with daycares and care providers.

A company that would like to be the one-stop shop for a variety of financial products, including investment, investment advice, and insurance. The startup wants to help people make better financial decisions.

A news app that lets users pay for premium content, with a minimum subscription of $29.99.

A startup that acts as a broker for the sale of private homes and holiday rentals. Founded in 2016, it has 1,000+ customers in the UK.

A company that helps small restaurants and cafeterias provide food for their employees. The co-founders say they have taken on $1 million in orders in their first year.

A startup that acts as a broker for the sale of private homes and holiday rentals. Founded in 2016, it has 1,000+ customers in the UK.

A Berlin-based startup that aims to replace corporate travel with virtual reality

“Ask.fm for the Enterprise” is a chat app for enterprises that lets employees be more productive, and more importantly, more social. The company has raised $150,000 in seed funding and aims to launch in April.

A micro-insurance company that helps individuals, businesses and healthcare providers manage their health insurance needs. The company’s website describes the business as “e-referral” and “e-insurance”.

A company that builds a platform for people to post their rent, so others can find and rent cheap housing in that area.

A social network for subscribers of the New York Times to share content and engage with one another.

A digital assistant that helps people plan their day, from remembering to get dressed to scheduling meetings.

This is a startup that wants to make it easy for companies to build and monetize apps with Google Drive.

A digital alternative to a courier service that provides delivery within a few hours.

This company sells a chatbot that answers work-related questions. The startup says there is a $22.5 billion market for this type of service.

A startup using machine learning to predict which loans a prospective buyer would default on the most.

A consumer mobile banking mobile app for the developing world. It’s meant to bring mobile banking to consumers in places where banking infrastructure isn’t robust, and where there are often mobile networks that are poor quality or nonexistent.

A B2B company that uses email, chat and video to help brands make more natural, real-time campaigns. They want to target consumers with the right message at the right time.

A blockchain-based system for sharing and tracking data about the ocean, from ocean acidification to pollution to tropical fish

A platform for sites to sell their content to other sites. The startup was founded in 2017, but is still in stealth mode.

A software company that helps healthcare providers organize and manage clinical trials. The startup has raised over $1.4 million to date.

An AI-powered alternative to SMS, which promises to be “a next-generation messaging client that’s faster, cheaper and more secure”.

A credit card for the underbanked. It eschews traditional bank systems and instead relies on direct deposit.

A quick and easy way to build live video apps

A tool for tracking the health of a project, the output of which is a report that can be used for decision-making.

A solution for on-demand professionals to manage their clients and clients’ payments.

A startup that is working to build the world’s first augmented reality grocery store. The idea is to create a way for users to scan a barcode to get an augmented reality display of what a product looks like in a store, before they’ve even left the house, with a camera view of what a product looks like at their homes.

The startup has a novel approach to tackling the problem of a lack of transparency in the oil industry. It’s a tool that allows users to track the source of their oil, and take it from there.

A company that builds software for social-media companies to manage their users' content, helping them manage the flood of content they’re putting out.

A startup that uses AI to help companies better understand how their employees are spending their time and what kinds of activities they want to do.

Startups can either use a SaaS service or build their own website, but the latter typically takes longer and costs more. The company makes it easy for startups to deploy a fully-functional website within 48 hours for $1,000

A startup that lets you make custom designs for e-commerce products, with automation and inventory management tools.

This company is making it easier for small businesses to invest in their own ventures, by providing them an online platform for managing investments. The seed round has already been funded, and the company is looking to the next round to help it scale.

A startup that used machine learning to automatically identify the best apps for people based on their demographics, to help navigate the app store.

The Y Combinator summer school is a four-week program that teaches computer science fundamentals to top-tier high school students. The program was launched in 2010 by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.

The startup helps customer understand what the customer is ordering before they even make the purchase.

This startup is building a new brand of “personal concierge” for the rich and famous that will help them choose the right house to buy, which groundskeeper to hire, and which type of vacation to take.

The startup is building a platform to help people to buy and sell gently used items, like cars, without having to go through a third party like eBay or Craigslist. They have a plan in place to expand into new categories in 2020.

A team of engineers at the University of Pennsylvania that created a wireless data transmission system that could send data between two devices within the same room.

This company has built an open-source platform for data science and predictive modeling. The company has built a platform that provides insights into data quickly and cost-efficiently.

A financial services company that helps banks and lenders keep track of their customer’s credit score and credit card information, so they can make decisions about whether to give a loan or simply do a credit check.

A software for creating, controlling and managing fleets of electric cars.

A fast-growing global microfinance platform that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses access credit and loans.

This startup wants to help people get around the health care system more easily. It’s a free service that matches patients with doctors and provides a portal for them to share information about their health, and for doctors to share information about themselves.

The startup is trying to build a kind of big data database that can be used by the financial services industry to make better business and investment decisions.

A tool to help people manage their money, including credit checks and debt payments.

A company that provides a platform for employers and HR to take a more active role in recruiting, allowing HR professionals to vet candidates, and manage candidate relations.

A free app that allows users to take photos and add custom stickers to them to share them on Instagram.

An online platform that helps small business owners get access to capital, and which has an SBA loan program. It takes 5% off the top and has 2 customers so far.

A startup that’s helping to teach 4,000 students a month in the Bay Area how to code.

A platform that brings medical students and doctors together for consultations via video calls. The company says it has more than a thousand doctors signed on, and that in its first six months it had $300,000 in revenue.

A startup that sells an app that lets you take a photo, track it, and then immediately see where that item was sold. The company is based in the Bay Area.

An online career-hunting platform that helps recruiters and companies connect with candidates.

A Y Combinator alum, this startup wants to help online retail stores sell physical products.

A digital appointment calendar within your phone, which they say is better than a paper or desktop calendar.

A tool to help developers create interactive widgets that can be attached to emails, much like you can add a “Get Your Quote” button to an email.

A company that makes it easier for people to rent out their apartments. They are also building a marketplace to help people find a renter for their place.

A startup that helps you track, analyze and manage your health goals and fitness. The startup is backed by $500,000 in seed funding to build the first version of its service.

Building a real-time payments platform for retail merchants.

A startup that helps you build a personal brand by giving you a way to curate and share content.

A startup that helps you discover and book concerts, local events and activities, and more, without incurring charges.

A startup that offers a platform for salespeople to schedule meetings with other salespeople

A traditional pharmacy and health clinic that sells prescriptions and medical services online, but also provides telemedicine services. It’s aimed at people who want to shop and get care at the same place.

A startup for the buying and selling of used cars, appliances and other household goods.

A mobile app that helps you get to know your friends and family through video chat.

A free database of all consumer credit cards, available online and allowing users to search for cards, compare them, and see where they’re used.

Startup is building a product that allows companies to manage a large number of project teams, like design teams, engineering teams, and sales and marketing teams, all in one place. The company currently has 25 employees.

A tool to help people manage large groups of employees and keep track of their expenses, payroll, and benefits.

Stripe is a payment platform that wants to help e-commerce merchants on smaller margins and those outside the US. The company is looking to partner with other services to help customers in places like China and Mexico expand their customer base.

A startup that allows you to create and sell websites. It’s a website builder written in Python and used as a base to build a variety of other sites.

This company is building AI and machine learning tools for business intelligence.

A startup that connects tooling companies and manufacturers to help them integrate with their companies’ manufacturing processes.

A startup that wants to build a smartphone camera that can shoot video in 360 degrees.

A startup creating a platform that serves as a single source for all of a person’s online and offline credit and debit cards. The startup wants to make paying for things as easy as swiping a credit card.

A web app that allows people to watch movies and TV when and where they want, using a library of content from various sources.

Does marketing automation for Indian startups with product-market fit, using a data-driven approach to help them optimize their marketing.

Spectra is a startup that provides a platform for building better experiences for “heads-up displays” which are basically the tiny screens that are mounted on modern vehicles to display speed, navigation, and other information. It’s available on Android and iOS.

This startup is building a new way to build apps for mobile devices, with an emphasis on India. The company is building a mobile-first app development platform to make it easier for Indian developers to get going.

A health care marketplace for patients to connect with physicians and specialists.

A startup based in San Francisco that wants to help people get data on loans.

The Startup is developing a toolkit for city governments looking to bring internet to poor places. The company is building it using the latest smartphones and is working with the government of Kenya.

“The Swiss Army Knife for your car”, a device that runs an array of sensors to help keep your car on the road and save money.

A company that wants to provide a platform to use design in healthcare. It’s a “new generation” of design tools that makes the practice more efficient and accessible. The company is currently focused on the US market.

The co-founders of the company Seers are trying to undo the stigma of the “office dog”. They had their first pup, Mitzi, on the playground of Spotify's offices, and the company asked them to bring her to work. Now, she’s a dog who visits office visits from time to time to make sure that everyone is having a good time.

This business is aiming to provide an easy way for small businesses to get money-back guarantees on products.

This app is designed for people with mobility issues to schedule and manage their indoor activities. The startup wants to bring technology to a new market of people with mobility issues.

The startup wants to bring order to the insurance claims process by cutting out the paperwork and paying a claims adjuster to handle the paperwork for you.

A new startup that wants to make the world’s smallest USB hub, allowing users to plug in multiple USB devices (keyboards, monitors, etc) into a single port

Idea : This company is trying to help foreign students in the US apply for student visas

A platform that connects suppliers of products, services, and expertise with the businesses that need them. The B2B company helps clients find, review, and process all kinds of contracts and legal documents for themselves, their employees, and their customers.

Built for small-to-medium sized retailers, a shopping list app that can be synced to a phone and can also sync with a website.

A startup that provides a way to identify fake news by tracking the amount of engagement it gets on social media.

This startup is building an app to help people with mental illness manage their health. The app aims to make mental health care more accessible and affordable.

A composite-materials startup working on a product for the automotive industry.

“A replacement for the existing marketing technology market, which is not fit for the modern era”

This startup is creating a package of services for small business owners that handle all of their financial needs. It includes accounting, taxes, payroll, and more.

A company that wants to help companies take “long-form” questions, like “What should I do next” and “How do I get started”, and turn them into short, digestible answers.

An API marketplace for scheduling and booking workers. It’s an API-driven marketplace for arranging for human labor.

A platform for creating video tutorials for developers, using a more visual language that’s easier for beginners to pick up on.

The company wants to help companies get started with process automation by packaging enterprise software with a bunch of pre-configured templates for common processes.

A platform that provides a way to record and monetize video of real estate transactions. The startup wants to build a platform that helps home buyers get a better deal by having a video of their property recorded by a professional videographer.

A mobile device management company, whose software allows businesses to track and manage both physical and electronic devices.

A startup that’s building a platform to help retailers better understand their customers. The idea is that retailers can use the platform to track customer behavior, and then use that information to better understand what’s going on inside stores and why customers are making the decisions they do.

Idea: A simple, powerful, and intuitive tool for creating smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain

A tool that lets users share their photos and stories from a digital experience on a social network. It’s a way to create a digital scrapbook from a trip or event. It’s been used by celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Jack Black, with a team of four people.

This is a startup building an app that allows people to sell their old phones on Amazon. It’s an early stage startup that won an award at the Google Launchpad Accelerator in May.

A team of three has raised $1.4 million from investors including First Round Capital, HLM Ventures, and Mayfield Fund. The company is building an AI-based software platform to help businesses optimize their supply chain operations.

A health service that allows users to monitor their health and share data, with plans to eventually tie in treatments, lifestyle changes, and other health information.

This startup is building a tool that lets people create websites in the cloud, and then upload them for companies to access with specific functions by using a mobile app or desktop.

An end-to-end digital healthcare program for patients and their families.

A startup that wants to use IoT to help farmers avoid pesticides and decrease their input costs.

A decentralized encrypted messaging platform for the world’s 2.4 billion unconnected citizens. Decent has built a messaging app that uses its own cryptocurrency, BitShare, as the medium.

A cloud-based accounting system that doesn’t just track payments but also helps companies track sales and inventory

A social network for hiring and managing outside contractors in the US.

A chatbot that allows you to hire a nanny or teach a language online, based on your schedule and preferences.

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a babysitter online and pay with paypal

A platform that helps vendors find distributors that can offer them a better deal.

A tool that helps businesses track inventory for their e-commerce site, which is the dream of every store owner but impossible to do manually.

A pet tracking technology that lets you see where your dog is, even when they’re asleep

A “social workspace” that is a virtual home for kids to hang out, play, meet their friends, and do their homework. The startup is based in San Diego and is working on a $10 million round.

A software platform that connects large companies and insurance companies in an effort to lower insurance costs while increasing the number of companies with coverage.

This startup is building software to allow people to track the progress of projects they are working on, ideating on things they’re working on, and get feedback from colleagues.

A company that is building a platform to help restaurant owners and workers manage logistics and inventory. The startup’s founders say their focus is on reducing waste.

A tool for companies to use for employee scheduling, with plans to expand to a paid subscription model later

This startup provides a way for people to share and sell photos and video of their travels on Instagram. It’s a little like Facebook’s Marketplace, and it’s part of the reason Instagram users continue to post and like photos and videos.

A company that helps urban farmers sell fresh produce directly to local consumers via a network of farmers.

A startup to help users know when the last time they texted was, and how much it cost.

A platform for buying and selling virtual items like power-ups, skins and runes in esports. PGL is based in China and is already signing up professional esports teams to use its platform, which lets teams create their own websites and sell merchandise.

A startup where the US government buys excess military equipment and resells them to civilians. It’s not the first attempt to make the surplus military equipment market accessible, but it’s the first to be backed by the US government.

A three-sided marketplace helping employers recruit, screen, and hire employees.

A messaging app that helps people in the UK and Europe communicate with those in the UK, Europe, or the rest of the world.

This company is building a way to monitor the carbon footprint of various items, with a focus on helping consumers become more environmentally conscious. They have a contract with The Nature Conservancy.

The startup is looking to use AI to help B2B companies by automating much of the admin work that comes with the job.

A startup that helps connect farmers with restaurants and retailers, allowing them to order food on a real-time basis.

A platform for an easy way to connect and build relationships with like-minded people. The startup is building a community for developers.

Zivgo is building a service that aims to help students find roommates, which is an oft-overlooked part of college life.

The startup’s goal is to make healthcare data more user-friendly for consumers, who it says want to know what the data means and how to access it.

"We're trying to make a video game about men and women," Pachter says. "It's about gender equality. It's a game about how men and women are treated differently, and how that might be changed."

This startup wants to help people make a living writing. It began with a response to a New York Times article about the income gap between writers and tech workers.

A digital assistant that provides a list of things to do when you get home on the weekends.

A new blockchain platform that allows companies to digitize and track intellectual property from idea to final product.

A team of bitcoin and blockchain-savvy developers building a software suite for the financial services industry.

Idea: A hardware product that seamlessly integrates with your existing credit card reader so that you can accept credit card payments in person.

A startup that wants to build modular, self-contained smart homes

A platform that helps farmers connect to one another and sell their goods

A platform where users can create virtual islands for multiplayer gaming. It launched in 2014, with the founders saying that it’s on track to reach $1.5 million in annual revenue.

A platform that allows businesses to easily manage their inventory, whether it’s the number of cases of beer in their warehouse or the number of shoes they have in the store.

This company, which was founded in 2015, helps companies hire workers in the Philippines. It uses a mobile app to connect recruiters with workers and to manage the work itself.

A startup that wants to connect users with data scientists who can help them make more effective decisions about their investments.

A platform that helps universities and colleges create personalized online learning programs for students and teachers.

A “smart recruiting” platform that helps companies find and hire the best employees for their job openings, using data as a guide.

A simple solution that allows people to track and pay for their electricity, gas, and water bills. The company wants to make paying bills easier than it is today and aims to cut costs for customers as a result.

A tool that simplifies the creation and distribution of branded content, helping companies create and share branded content.

This startup wants to use artificial intelligence to accelerate the workflows of marketers.

A startup that helps users find their lost devices by helping them understand what data is important to them and what data might be on their devices, and then provides a way to recover those files.

A startup that provides an online course on how to build an online business

A platform that provides a digitalized M&A database for the $1 trillion middle market.

A matchmaking website that matches people up based on their shared interest in the same topics

A startup that allows people to buy and sell items “in real time” in addition to facilitating peer-to-peer lending. The B2B business has potential for companies looking to expand their lending options.

A “community-based credit bureau” that allows people to report their own credit data to the community, and then other members can verify or dispute it.

A startup that provides mobile money services for emerging markets. The company has developed the technology for mobile money across Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania.

A tokenized, weighted investment that invests in startups in a curated way, helping investors diversify and make more informed investments.

Idea: A startup that provides students with an online forum to help each other figure out what career paths they should take.

As the founder of a peer to peer marketplace for student tutoring, the founder of TutorPal aims to help low-income families, people with disabilities and others get access to help with their studies.

A platform that helps small business owners collaborate on projects and communicate with clients. The company has built a system that uses a “social network for online tasks” model.

This company helps finance companies with banking relationships automate their back office operations.

A way to create an online network for selling products with the help of a community of people and products. The startup helps customers find the right products to buy by grouping them into categories. The company is working on a platform in the US.

A startup that sells a set of “performance indicators” to help employees track their performance, and then match actions to those indicators.

Combining a solar-powered, connected scale and a coffee roaster to make a perfect coffee every time.

A B2C app that enables consumers to create a shopping list using an app and then intelligently fill it.

The startup helps athletes track their performance in their sport, including GPS data.

A company that wants to improve the way people pay for airline tickets. The startup is building a new online travel booking platform that they say will help travelers get the cheapest and best seats, and even get upgrades.

A platform that provides a “secure, automated way for businesses to get paid”. It’s currently in private beta, with a minimum of 10 customers, and has raised an undisclosed amount in funding.

A platform for on-demand access to data and information from a variety of companies. The company wants to help businesses access information from multiple sources, and then make it easy for them to analyze and use that information.

This company wants to be “the Uber of gig work”, enabling freelancers to get work done on-demand.

Founded in 2015, Flyfree is an SEO agency based in London. They provide digital marketing services and run their own SEO training academy.

A software platform being built to allow companies to use digital assets and data to build and share multi-person, multi-device campaigns.

A startup that’s developing a computer vision API that helps businesses analyze and refine their photos.

A “computer vision platform” that combines software, hardware, and algorithms to help companies better track their assets.

A company that tracks and helps shape the conversation around the news and ideas that matter most to you.

A startup for managing knowledge management tasks for local government, such as data governance, mission management and knowledge management.

A video platform for on-demand teachers, with a focus on teaching math, biology, and physics.

A platform that allows doctors to upload and view patient records from their computer.

This company wants to help people save money on gas. They’re building an app that lets you create a “gas card” that can be spent at a given gas station to save money on gas.

This is a platform for in-house lawyers to build documents in a way that allows users to quickly and easily extract the data they need.

A startup that provides software to help people get their business off the ground

A civic tech startup working to improve voter turnout for elections in the US

A women’s networking app that connects women interested in entrepreneurship and investing to other like-minded women.

The company’s goal is to help smaller companies manage their data. It’s first product is a tool that allows companies to manage their data by region.

A tool for real estate agents that allows them to schedule showings and view viewings in real time.

A video platform that helps small businesses create slick video content without hiring a video specialist.

A startup to help people find gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-friendly options at restaurants.

A robot vacuum meant to help clean up messy houses without the need for a full-time cleaning service

A startup that helps business owners create websites with a drag-and-drop interface. The company says it has 30,000 users within its network and is growing quickly.

A startup that helps restaurants collect payment for their services via direct debit and credit card.

This app, which is currently only available in the US and Canada, uses a mobile app to help provide customer service to restaurants and other food and retail suppliers.

A startup that’s building a browser extension that allows you to search and select content on a website, like you’d do on Google Images.

A “smart hotel” that seeks to provide guests with a personalized experience and optimize their stay. The startup is currently in stealth mode.

A software company that helps businesses manage their inventory and order fulfillment.

A web-based chat platform that provides employees with an easy way to manage their own work schedules.

A B2B business that lists items for sale on the web, allowing users to take advantage of the millions of people who are selling on Amazon. The startup has already made a $100,000 sale.

This startup is working on a platform that allows small businesses to manage their inventory and plan their logistics in a single place

Wooji is building a cloud-based platform for pets that collects pet health and behavior data from sensors and analysis software.

A company focused on helping clients with growing their presence in Asia. Its app helps people navigate Asia’s credit card market, which is significantly different from the US market.

A virtual assistant that can respond to people in over 70 languages, and who can also be integrated into the Amazon Echo and Google Home products. The team is also developing a smart speaker that can take in natural language input and respond with a preset answer.

A startup that’s meant to help people with ADHD focus better on tasks and avoid distractions.

A company that builds smart, modular hydroponic grow systems

This startup wants to solve the problem of keeping track of customers’ payments for businesses and helps them with a phone app and a digital solution that they claim are more accurate and cheaper.

iau is building a tool to make it easier for marketers to track their digital campaigns, helping them get more data on their marketing efforts. The startup says it’s already working with over 50 marketing agencies.

A startup that wants to do the work of a labor union for a company, helping its employees organize and fight for better pay and benefits on their own terms.

A startup that is building an AI-powered app for home delivery of plant medicine.

Professional and semi-professional athletes and influencers are seeing their profiles get hacked. This startup wants to build a way to securely store influencer data so that it’s not lost in an ex-boyfriend’s phone.

A startup that looks to put your data back on your computer—“so you can get back to work”. It’s the opposite of a USB stick.

A student loans platform, which has 4 million users

This startup is building a device that allows anyone to send a text message from their computer to a phone number. The device itself is a wristband with a camera and a way to send a photo via a text message.

A company that wants to help streamline buying and selling of artwork and collectibles on eBay.

A platform for investors to buy individual stocks across a variety of exchanges simultaneously.

A company that sells batteries and chargers for electric cars, and is currently valued at $1.2 billion.

A platform that connects young entrepreneurs with mentors and customers. The startup works with businesses in the creative sector, and has worked with other startups including Airbnb and Coinbase.

A startup that helps brands manage their social media accounts, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

People who want to sell their old furniture can list it on the site, which acts as a kind of garage sale, then buy it for a dollar.

This startup is building a platform for companies to build and manage their own websites. They’re working with YC companies as well as enterprise clients.

A tool for finding a nearby, qualified plumber.

A San Francisco-based startup working to make it easier for people to share their photos, videos, and other media while on the go. The startup has an iOS app and plans to launch an Android app soon.

A company that’s built an “app for the pet sitting industry”, allowing customers to place orders for pets and even sign up for a pet-sitting service.

A startup that makes it possible to buy, sell, and collectively organize ridesharing services, much like Uber or Lyft but for cars

A startup that connects companies with enterprise-level solutions for managing data privacy and compliance.

A tool for finding better vendors for the workplace, to help companies save money and streamline processes.

This is a company that uses AI to create apps and software that help create and manage online polls and surveys.

A streaming video platform that connects employers to candidates who want to be hired.

A digital platform for matching philanthropists who want to give their time to charities. It claims to be international in scope and that it has already funded over 100 projects.

This “authentic voice-calling” startup lets you make and receive phone calls using Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant devices.

A simple solution for localizing your website. Localize is an easy way to translate content into multiple languages without needing a developer.

A startup that helps bring “machine learning to the most copious of data sets”.

A digital concierge for the food industry, providing recommendations for restaurants, and ordering for you.

A data platform that allows brands to buy and sell customer data in a decentralized way, while protecting consumer information.

A company that helps major brands like Target and Chipotle via a “three-second check-in” that lets customers add a fast, simple rating to a product to build a sentiment score for it.

A startup that wants to bring a “hybrid” approach to the online dating market, focusing on creating a community for people to find dates on the platform, but also connecting them with people they know in real life.

A company that helps automate supply chain processes for companies in the food and beverage industry. The startup’s software allows manufacturers to build a single, dynamic, supply chain plan, and it can adjust based on changes in demand and supply.

A web-based platform for finding a sales associate for a specific task, whether it’s an exhibition, an event, or a store installation.

A SMB-focused marketplace for small business loans, which has already closed $20M in loans and has more than 10,000 users.

A startup that makes it easier to manage social media accounts, and also gives users the ability to create their own custom hashtags.

A tool for mastering the dreaded phone interview.

A platform for on-demand valet parking. The startup provides in-car valet parking services for thousands of drivers in San Francisco.

A B2B SaaS app that allows small businesses to automate their marketing and sales processes.

Software that helps users extract additional value from images like Instagram’s new “Stories” format.

This L.A.-based startup is building a solution that connects “millennials” with their favorite brands and stores.

A guide to connecting with the right crowdfunding platform for your particular project

A “freemium” site for sending money to friends and family

A program for non-profits to get funding from investors.

A startup that wants to build a “knowledge management platform” that would allow people to easily share information about their businesses and the best practices for running them.

A company looking to make it easier for small businesses to comply with credit card usage rules.

A startup that tracks how much time people spend on various things, and then automatically pays them. Aimed at product managers who want to make sure people aren’t getting distracted.

A tool to make it easier for small businesses to find creative professionals in their neighborhood.

A platform that helps actors book their jobs, manage their careers, and get paid on a per-performance basis.

A “one stop shop” for startups that want to add a crowdfunding component to their business

This startup is building a space heater with an app users can control remotely.

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This startup is building a marketplace for mobile developers to find developers and build apps.

A new wireless charging platform that uses electromagnetic induction to charge devices with a wireless charger.

Tapping into a $30bn market, the startup wants to create “e-commerce for the developing world.”

A B2B company that helps businesses in the SaaS space with marketing automation. The startup has a large partner list that includes Salesforce, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Google and others.

A startup that sells a service where they help you plan a vacation and then they arrange all of the flights and hotels for you

A platform for media creators to make money off their own content, without having to share their work with other sites.

A platform that helps companies transfer money to individual employees in different locations. It’s a way for companies to have more control over the money they spend and track where it goes.

A startup that’s making a hiring platform for tech startups, enabling companies to find qualified candidates quickly.

A tool to help with contract and legal paperwork.

This app helps people find parking spots near their destinations

The startup is building an app for helping meet-up groups book and pay for events.

A startup for multi-family buildings that aims to optimize energy usage through a more intelligent management of energy usage. The startup started in 2018 and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fast Company Design.

This startup is building a way to take a URL and automatically create a site in the Google Cloud.

An AI-based solution for recruiting and hiring.

A platform for making and selling jewelry and creative crafts

A platform that brings the power of social media to event promotion. The startup helps event organizers manage their social accounts, invite people to the event, and encourage them to talk about their experience on social platforms.

After a year of research, the startup, which is based in the US, is launching a virtual reality platform that lets real estate agents and brokers create and share their own VR tours.

A startup for freelance designers, meant to help them find work, keep track of their clients and spend less time doing administrative tasks.

For designers, this is an all-in-one program that allows you to create and screen print shirts, mugs and more.

A startup founded by several ex-Adobe employees to develop a creative suite for mobile and tablet devices. It has raised $26 million in funding.

A platform for students to take classes and tests online, with a focus on education in the developing world.

Idea: A startup that curates your social media feeds and offers them up as daily briefings

A tool for building lightweight IoT devices that communicate securely with the internet via IFTTT.

Yolt is building a credit card without interest that refunds customers’ purchases if they make a payment within a year of making them. It’s a credit card for the unbanked, but it’s currently only in the United States.

A startup that helps people who live in the city get things they need from the country (IE I live in the city but need a goat to sacrifice, hire someone to go out into the country and find me a goat

A dating app for breakfast in the morning.

The San Jose, California-based startup offers an introduction to basic accounting, billing, and invoicing. The startup launched in San Francisco in December and was one of 10 finalists in the TechStars New York program.

A startup that brings the benefits of a “quiet studio” to people who live in buildings that aren’t as soundproofed. The company’s co-founder, who was previously a producer for The BBC, says he uses the studio for “super-advanced brain science and psychology research”.

This B2B company wants to help companies manage the process of acquiring new customers.

A health tech company that makes a voice-activated smart scale that can communicate with a connected smartphone app to track weight, body fat, and trends over time. The startup is looking to raise $2.5m in seed funding.

A startup that has built a mobile app that uses machine learning to identify people at risk of suicide, and sends them a text message. The startup says that by the time they’ve reached 1% of their users, they’ve saved a life.

A startup for selling and buying used computers from other people. Users can sell their old computers in exchange for cash or trade them in for newer ones. The company provides a platform to help people sell their old computers and also offers a buy credit option.

Helping businesses connect their physical products directly to consumers via the internet with their app, which acts as a “smart shelf” that helps customers scan items and find products they can purchase.

A personalized VR/AR experience that lets you physically interact with objects to create a unique experience.

A startup that helps companies in Brazil manage all of their consumer credit with the help of a single dashboard.

A company that looks to take the data from the medical devices in your home and learn what your body needs to stay healthy. CIMA aims to build an AI-powered platform that can help you better manage all your health data, and then recommend medications based on what your body needs.

A job-posting system for businesses, helping them find and hire people.

A tool to turn a 360-degree video into a layered, interactive experience.

A personal digital assistant that helps manage your finances, make travel arrangements, and more.

An online service that wants to help companies manage their manufacturing process. Their first product is a $2,000 kit that comes with a 3D printer and 3D printer-compatible materials.

A platform for the home care industry to grow, demand, and manage their services.

A platform for purchasing generic drugs online, which then enables the patient to build their own medicine. The company is based in India.

A platform for the entertainment industry to create, manage, and monetize its content. The startup says it will help artists “pivot to new business models, stay profitable, and expand their business”.

This startup says that it is building a marketplace for humans to hire AI-powered chatbots and voice assistants.

A venture-backed company that offers a suite of services for companies running sales operations in the US.

This startup is writing an app that makes it easy for people to record videos of themselves playing video games and publish them to YouTube.

This startup is building a tool for Google Docs to integrate with Slack, email, and other communications tools.

This startup is building an app for the insurance industry to help manage claim data, both claims-related and data-related.

Expanding on their existing work with the National Parks Service, Squirrel works with companies to provide historical context for their employees.

A consumer finance app that will only work in the US. It’s meant to help people with student loans.

A company that helps businesses manage data from virtual assistants. The idea is that the assistant can ask for and get information and then send the request to the company's website, where the data is stored and can be accessed.

A company founded by a team of Stanford and Berkeley researchers that uses AI to detect and prevent fraud. The software aims to detect when a person is trying to make a credit card purchase in a store and notify the appropriate employees, who can then stop the transaction.

A “smart” vacuum that can detect allergens in the home and automatically clean it, with a camera and microphone to monitor cleaning and maintenance.

A tool to help small businesses in the UK and Ireland manage their tax filing. The company offers a free, self-service tax filing tool that lets businesses file their tax returns online, and pay their tax electronically.

A company that makes a tool to help companies get their payroll done faster. The platform is based on the idea of a traditional monthly payroll cycle, but instead of hiring a payroll company to handle things, companies can outsource it to a company like Payroll Master, which runs the payroll for them for a monthly fee.

A SaaS that connects companies and shoppers through a loyalty program.

A startup for booking a doctor's appointment for a specific patient in a specific location. Doctors and patients can both create and track appointments online, with the idea being that patients will be able to call in for an appointment from anywhere at any time, and doctors can only book appointments on the site.

A user-interactive tool to help local governments communicate with citizens about issues

A startup aiming to provide access to a full suite of financial services, including credit reports, debt management, and investing.

A platform that lets businesses sell directly to their customers – similar to services like Shopify or Stripe.

A peer-to-peer housing marketplace, where people can find roommates or share their own home for cheaper rates.

A startup for backing up all your files in a single place It’s meant to be a “personal data locker”

Collects and analyzes the data around service delivery in India. The startup wants to integrate with government services for better service delivery.

A tool to help finance teams and executives track their spending and generate reports that can be used to improve management of funds.

A “cash back” app that lets users earn cash back on purchases made in-store.

An AI-powered AI assistant, Pexel is building a bot that will handle tasks like making phone calls, scheduling appointments, and even answering questions.

A company that is building an application that allows you to synthesize perfumes from a drop of scent.

A company that uses AI to help make low-cost, high-quality face-to-face video calls.

A startup for businesses seeking to grow internationally. Companies can connect with a team of remote advisors who help with finance, legal, and operational concerns.

A B2B company that helps companies take credit card payments from anywhere, from anywhere.

Reviewing B2B contracts is often a long and expensive process. With a cloud-based solution, companies can employ an army of contract reviewers at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

A startup that brings the benefits of brick-and-mortar retail to online retailers.

A startup that helps plan travel itineraries. They want to help travel companies manage their own data and make travel more efficient.

A tool for people to share their photos online.

A platform that allows people to buy and sell goods and services online in exchange for cryptocurrency.

A platform for selling online courses and subscriptions, allowing students to take online courses for credit and work towards certifications.

This app basically allows you to order food from your favorite restaurants. It’s a way to cut out restaurants and make the entire process of ordering food a lot more simple, similar to Grubhub.

A startup for the sale of travel services, including package tours, hotel stays, car rentals, and more. The company does not charge commissions.

A tool for visualizing 3D objects within a computer’s memory.

A company that builds an ordering platform for farmers to get their vegetables and products to market faster.

A startup that uses an IoT platform to automatically manage the delivery of goods in the same way that Amazon and Uber do. Founded in early 2019, they’re currently in talks with logistics companies in the US, Canada and Mexico.

A machine learning-based system that assists in the verification of employee performance.

A startup aims to use a machine learning system to identify which of the more than 1,000 words in the English language are used most frequently. It will make the word cloud on your computer screen.

This is a platform for event tickets, offering the ability to sell tickets for parties and events that later convert into a Facebook group.

A customer service platform for small businesses. The company claims to have $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and has been growing at a rate of 50% month-over-month.

A mobile payments solution for mobile network operators (think AT&T and Verizon). The mobile payments startup wants to be the first mobile payments platform to offer both mobile network operators and mobile carriers a platform to build mobile payments solutions.

A tool for artists, record labels, and venues to find out how to better monetize their content, whether it’s a song, a TV show, or an event.

A mobile app for real estate agents to help them give listings to homes quickly and easily. It employs an algorithm to understand the data the agent has on the listing and create the exact right message to sell to the agent’s client.

A web-based tool that helps customers find, compare, and book oil changes, car washes, and other services.

A tool that helps companies create software that can be run across multiple devices, using HTML5.

A group of engineers building a “scalable, secure, and private” platform that allows developers to build applications that run on a personal computer, a group of devices, or a network of devices.

A startup that wants to use artificial intelligence to identify the best marketing channels for a certain product or service. To that end, it’s built a tool that takes a company’s brand metrics and churn rate and uses it to come up with marketing channels.

A robo-adviser for retirement savings, pitched as “Investment + Retirement Done Right”.

A “location-based intelligence” and “mobile-first” marketing platform.

A tool that helps people create a website using a single drag-and-drop interface. The tool is aimed at people who don’t know how to code — and it’s being used by companies like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.

A B2B company specializing in helping companies understand and manage the risks of their sales and operations.

A startup that aims to create a “digital wallet for the home”, allowing you to pay for products and services using apps on your phone.

A hardware wallet for bitcoin. A recent redesign has brought in some features that were previously only available for the Ledger.

A platform for travel agencies to manage their inventory, even when they’re not physically in the store.

A data visualization tool that helps companies and brands understand social media conversations around them.

A startup that empowers businesses to build a custom car leasing program, with a team of experts to help them with the various steps of the process.

A startup that helps users find nearby, affordable healthcare. Users can search by location, specialty and whether they are on Medicaid or not, and get access to a network of healthcare providers.

A solution for e-commerce stores that want to sell gift cards and gift cards for international markets.

This company is building a platform that helps make it easier for people to move their money out of banks and into digital wallets like Google Pay and AliPay.

A wearable that tracks when you’re thirsty, and provides an alert when you’re close to a water bottle so you don’t have to keep looking for it.

An encrypted messaging app, “built for the public sphere”

A startup that helps long-distance runners “train like an athlete.”

A software platform for banks that allows them to offer recurring money management services.

A system that allows users to earn tokens for doing simple tasks (like shopping on Amazon)

A tool that helps users create and share custom data sets. The startup is building an API and desktop app that allows users to easily create, share, and collaborate on data sets.

A product that allows people to share their ideas with the world, giving the idea a vote of confidence and possibly even funding.

A tool for managing and tracking expenses for small businesses. The app facilitates the creation of invoices, expense reports, and other business forms.

A tool for crowd-sourcing the translation of books.

A product that helps companies manage client data, including by integrating customer data with other customer data.

D.C.-based startup that lets brewers create and track of their beers.

A mobile messaging platform for workers in the oil and gas industry.

A facial recognition startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide a more secure way to digitally sign documents.

A collaboration tool for teams and individuals to manage their time and tasks. Built for teams that want to keep team members accountable to their own schedules and goals.

A startup that is building an app that helps you manage and monitor your employees’ health and productivity. It’s a service that works in tandem with a health tracking app, which is free to download.

A software provider that helps companies with their data security and privacy. The founders say the company is growing fast, because the startup helps clients “focus on the things that matter”.

A tools for music producers and artists to record, mix, and publish their songs.

A company that allows people to make “tweets” from their phone, or a software program that’ll be able to take a list of contacts and create a list of tweets to send to them.

A content distribution platform that lets companies pay creators to make and share their content.

A digital currency for artists and creators, focused on content and media related transactions. HODL is focused on the US and UK markets.

A way to help people in the US streamline legal contracts.

A "customer engagement platform", which is a bit like Klout, but using social media and real-time data to help companies design better customer experiences.

Software that helps companies manage the distribution of their products to multiple distribution channels.

A startup that uses an app to manage the construction project of building a house

This company is building technology that combines the best practices of the world’s ride-sharing companies into a single platform.

An education startup that teaches users how to interact with smart TVs in order to manage their Netflix, Amazon, and other videos.

A “social financial advisor” that helps people with retirement planning and wealth management.

PlaceShare is a marketplace for sharing places, and is backed by Y Combinator. This startup is building a new payments system for sharing things.

A tool to help users create and edit their own “cards” in Slack, as well as automate their usage in Slack.

A platform that helps people manage their money across investments. It’s a way for people to track their investments with an iPhone app that syncs with a web dashboard.

A tool that lets you design a concept car and see how it would look in real life

A tool that helps businesses get the best deal on travel, hotel stays and flight tickets.

A startup that wants to use its AI to power an artificial intelligence-based investment platform to help investors pick stocks.

A startup that wants to help people avoid getting hit by cars. Their app, which is now in the US, has had over 1,000 downloads.

A startup that provides a platform for building customized wellness programs for employees.

A storage and backup service that allows users to upload documents in different formats, then get their data backed up to the cloud.

A platform for investing in a hedge fund, which will make use of the equity in your portfolio.

An on-demand maid service that brings trained Filipina housekeepers to people's doorsteps.

A team of sales people and consultants building software for sales and marketing teams. They want to take large marketing campaigns and help sales people tailor them to individual companies. The startup is based in San Francisco.

A mobile app that helps people find parking in a city by mapping parking garages, lots, and on street spots.

A drone that can follow you around on land and in the air, taking photos and video and providing a 360-degree view of your surroundings.

A way to make it easier for people to create and share maps and maps of things like cities and parks.

Established in 2015, the company is building a tool to help businesses manage their print marketing. It lets companies manage printing and marketing budgets, track print campaigns, and monitor print ROI.

A cloud-based pricing model and price management tool for companies buying and selling online.

A platform for managing online communities, the startup says it “dedicates itself to creating healthy, productive, creative online communities.”

This startup is building a mobile app that will let you buy just about any product — from a couch to a chandelier — and have it delivered to your home in less than an hour.

A way to quickly create barcodes for products, allowing them to be printed and scanned.

A startup that’s building a software platform for companies looking for the best deals on commercial real estate. It cites that a 1% reduction in rent can save a business 30% of their total annual real estate spend.

A B2B platform for finding and sharing freelance technical talent, with a focus on Germany.

A startup that gives data on the role of the press in different countries, and what countries are most open to outside reporters.

A startup that aims to make it easier for local governments to take bids for public works projects.

A toolkit for building online courses. The startup is using pre-built templates and templates specific to the type of course.

A company that wants to use CRM data to build a better customer experience. So far it’s built a pilot program that serves as an internal CRM for a few hundred employees at a 100k company.

This is a digital assistant that claims to be able to answer questions and perform tasks on your behalf.

A B2B company that helps companies create online training programs that are adaptive to different kinds of learners.

A company that helps companies manage their email marketing and provide a way for users to unsubscribe from marketing messages.

An email-based sales platform for companies to better reach the right people for sales leads.

The startup will use its software to help companies track their employees’ time. It provides a real-time map of what everyone is doing, like seeing which employee is in a meeting with a client, which employee is checking in with a new client, and how much time they spent on each task.

A global education platform for students, parents, and educators.

A platform that consolidates all of your social media accounts into one place,

A favorite among beer enthusiasts, this startup has spent years building a database of beer shops and bars in major cities across North America.

A startup that wants to help people become more efficient at managing their money. It’s charging people a monthly fee to manage their money for them.

This is a place for people to buy used electronics

A company that helps small businesses get off the ground, with a library of tools that help companies with marketing, accounting, and sales. Company founders started it after seeing that many small businesses are launching on Facebook and taking on extra expenses to grow.

A platform for 3D printing and prototyping tools. The company’s software platform helps users create and sell 3D-printed products online.

A company that documents and shares the most popular requests for charity and non-profit organizations with the goal of “democratizing” the process for donors.

The startup helps companies build their own online communities. It launched in the UK, and has a small number of users.

A startup that helps companies manage retail contracts in a simple, easy-to-use interface. The startup says it’s already working with over 300 clients.

This company is building an electric scooter that’s “designed for high traffic areas”.

This startup is building a device to help hard of hearing people navigate public spaces.

A set of connected apps that create a digital diary of a person’s life. The app stores a person’s life in a personal database, and can be used to create a digital version of a person’s life.

A software company that allows users to connect to a community of donors.

A company that uses cookies to block ads on websites by identifying users who have previously objected to an ad.

A new social network that lets users create a new social network from scratch.

A company that helps athletes train smarter and reach their performance goals faster.

A developer API that lets developers create chatbots with specific features. The startup is targeting enterprise businesses.

A startup that wants to help users make more money by selling their excess household items to the public.

A tool for B2B salespeople to do more of their work from the cloud. Cleverly is a tool for B2B salespeople to do more of their work from the cloud.

A mobile app that helps people find the best deals on local flights. The startup is already seeing 1,000 downloads every week and is expanding nationally with a $500,000 investment.

A startup whose product is a service that "lets users create an avatar for their email addresses It then uses that avatar to send email" The startup launched in October 2018 and received a seed round of $17M in February 2019

A human-powered team of recruiters that help companies hire.

This is a startup that wants to help companies capture and make money from the data generated on their websites. It’s a software that helps companies gather data about their customers and then deploy a service to make money from that information.

A multi-purpose tool for the home which can be used to monitor or control connected devices in the house

A distributed ledger platform for managing people’s cryptocurrency assets.

This is a SaaS for predictive analytics for marketing teams. It helps companies analyze data and identify market trends to figure out what will work and what won’t.

Capto is a one-stop app that helps connect customers with suppliers and help them find the best deals. The startup says it has a userbase of over 2.5 million, and plans to expand to more countries in Latin America.

An online marketplace for freelance talent. They’re building a pool of talent, via an online marketplace, for brands to use.

A startup that is building a “mobile-first” version of the popular website Reddit. They want to make Reddit more social, making it easier to find what you want and to interact with the community.

This is a non-profit that gives "micro-loans" to entrepreneurs in Laos so they can start businesses. The startup has raised $50,000 in seed funding.

A health management software platform that helps health plans manage their members’ data. The company has raised $8.1 million in funding.

A digital marketplace for buying, selling and renting security cameras. The company positions themselves as an eBay for security cameras.

A startup that’s building a marketplace that allows people to buy and sell their old Wi-Fi routers and other electronics.

A startup that helps customers book restaurant tables, with a check-in and payment feature. It’s the first startup in India working on a restaurant booking app.

This startup is building software for businesses to keep track of their expensive items, which they can then take to their local jeweler instead of paying a check out fee. They also plan to expand to offer an app that allows customers to track the location of their purchases, so they can get a full refund if the item is lost or stolen.

Idea: A mobile app trying to solve the ‘rejection’ problem that young students face when applying for jobs and internships A person can apply for jobs via the app and be notified if they’re not qualified, but it’s aimed at helping young people get over the shame of being rejected

A startup that allows people to buy groceries online, and have them delivered at a later date The user can also schedule the delivery for a specific date and time

A platform for people looking to hire restaurant workers.

A group of four-hour-old startups that are still around from Demo Day in June. The goal is to help early stage founders get funding and grow their businesses.

A platform for advertisers to find and target the right demographics and psychographics. The startup is also working on an ad tech platform for brands that want to target “hard-to-reach” consumers.

A company that builds AI tools that can help detect fraud on credit cards.

The startup offers a tool for companies to make their own custom, branded products, using a 3D printer and a factory in China. The company has partnered with Unilever, United Parcel Service, and Chipotle among others.

A tool that helps socially conscious people invest their money in socially conscious companies.

A mobile app that helps people track the money they spend on groceries, and helps everyone save money on groceries.

The company is a platform that provides a ‘mobile-first’ shopping experience. The startup wants to become a one-stop shop for all shopping needs.

A digital platform for businesses to buy, sell, and manage inventory.

A startup that lets users pick out a workout and have the fitness app deliver it to them by working out in the background.

For developers, this is an app that lets you see all your projects from the same place.

A startup that helps organizations get their data into the cloud, without resorting to competitors like Amazon S3.

A startup that helps restaurants collect payment for their services via direct debit and credit card.

A visual timeline of your life, based on your social networks.

While it’s still in the works, this company is building an AI-powered assistant that would allow people to speak to it and get personalized recommendations on what to do in cities around the world, sort of like the way Pandora is personalized music.

An open-source, community-driven distributed ledger system that’s designed to enable companies to cut down on large amounts of paperwork and paperwork fraud.

This startup wants to make the world’s most durable tablet, one that can withstand a drop from a boat in the ocean, or a puddle of coffee.

A B2C company for connecting a business’s different channels of communication and marketing.

This startup is building an AI-driven, image-matching tool for marketers. At first, it’d be used to build ad campaigns, but it’d eventually be used to improve content creation and moderation.

A startup that provides a service for creating a personalized book for your child

A system for managing contracts and legal documents, with a focus on small businesses, startups, and home-based workers.

A software company that uses machine learning to manage and handle re-ordering and inventory for online stores.

A startup that lets you instantly rent an apartment with a few taps.

An on-demand gig service that pays users with gift cards to merchants. The startup currently has two pilot customers in the UK, and plans to expand to the US in the coming months.

This is a startup that wants to help people find a new job. The company is only in its first month of operations, and has already added 500 users.

Idea: A startup that provides students with an online forum to help each other figure out what career paths they should take.

A tool that lets you specify what you want your account to look like, and it will provide you with a variety of templates to choose from.

A virtual reality game that lets you go on a wild adventure in the woods

A startup that enables a group of people to share their carpools and public transportation with one another. It’s a bit of a meta application in that the startup is building an app to help companies integrate carpooling into their business models.

A company that helps online businesses with online marketing by targeting their customers with specific video ads and other creative content

A company that is building a service that takes your current job title, cross-references it with your LinkedIn profile, and gives you suggestions on how to make yourself a more valuable employee.

A platform that provides a suite of services to help landlords market and manage their rental properties.

This startup wants to be the all-in-one platform for managing mobile repair and maintenance. It serves companies like Best Buy, which have over 1,100 stores, and wants to help them easily manage and pay for repairs.

A free anonymous email account for the homeless, and a way to use email from the homeless in the workforce.

A digital library for art and music that’s built using blockchain technology. It’s a decentralized system, built on top of the Ethereum network, that tracks and stores art pieces, but also allows for them to be accessed via a web interface.

A mobile app to help them track their exercise progress. Users can share their progress with friends and get motivation and tips from other users.

A company that helps you find and connect with your family, your best friends, the ones you work with, and the ones you love.

Philadelphia has a long history of technological innovation in the medical and engineering fields.

A company that builds a new kind of anti-fraud technology, through the use of machine learning.

A company that helps get you a loan from a bank or credit union. The startup uses a crowdsourced approach to identify customers who are in need of a loan, and then gets them in touch with a lender.

A P2P lender that works with government sponsored housing programs in the US.

A software company that provides cloud-based services for auditors to ensure that companies are filing their taxes correctly.

A startup that helps manage the risk of a global network of life insurance policy holders.

The startup is looking to help small businesses grow by connecting them with customers, and bringing them together.

A startup that specializes in cross-border payments. The startup has built a solution in partnership with the Spanish government that allows Spanish businesses to send money to individuals in the US. The company is also working on a platform to help small businesses in the US accept payments in euros.

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

The world of finance is changing dramatically, and there’s a lot of confusion around how new technologies like fintech will impact financial services. Fintech can take the form of apps, startups, and platforms, or it can be composed of a mix of all three. Fintech is a catch-all term that can include everything from cryptocurrencies, to artificial intelligence, to machine learning, and more. Fintech startup solutions help companies navigate these changes.

A startup that wants to make the process of app development faster and easier by providing the tools, materials, and process they use to build apps.

A startup that wants to use AI for the process of building and growing a sales team, with results that can be measured by sales performance.

A digital docket system for small businesses that allows them to track, manage, and pay for claims, and then get reminders about pending bills.

A startup in the fitness-tracking space that’s giving people an app that provides them with on-demand workouts. The startup is selling workouts that are already designed by a group of experts, for $12 a piece.

An IoT service that helps hospitals track and monitor patient care across different departments.

A video rental app aimed at helping customers find and reserve movies from the comfort

A startup that provides software for college students to help them manage their grades and schoolwork

A platform for curating and distributing mobile games. The startup is focused on games that are designed for touchscreens, though they reference other platforms, such as Facebook’s Messenger and Apple’s iMessage.

This startup is building a “crowdfunding platform for software”. The startup lets developers crowdfund their software on the platform.

A company that helps retailers grow their online sales by selling them on Amazon.com. The startup has $2.5 million in funding.

A content-management platform on which you can build websites, applications, and forums.

A social media calendar app, aimed at people who want to take control of their social media schedule.

A startup that provides high quality, low cost legal services

A platform for small businesses to receive IT and marketing services from a company that can scale and grow the business without increasing the business’s costs.

Food delivery service that has set its sights on winning over consumers in Brazil.

An investment and crowdfunding platform, and a startup that helps tech companies increase their visibility and funding.

A startup for users to share their photos, with the goal of creating social media content that can be a source of revenue for them.

A platform that helps users who are moving apartments share information with their friends and family, to make the process less stressful.

A startup platform for managing and sharing biological samples. The startup takes samples from patients, runs them through a machine that identifies what is in the sample, and then uses that information to help doctors diagnose their own patients.

A company that’s building a “Netflix for fitness”. The company wants to be able to provide “instant-on, personalized, scalable, and effective fitness programs”.

A free software that helps companies find the best time to market their products, based on customer use.

This is an app that helps fans book concert tickets. FanBridge helps match fans with the artists they want to see, then book tickets and credit cards for the show.

This is a startup that wants to make it easier to keep track of all your social media accounts.

A digital media production company that creates video for brands, agencies, and large video production companies.

A platform that helps employers keep track of all of their workforce data and helps them better manage their employee relationships.

An online platform that allows its users to “recover” digital media, including photos, music, and videos. The company aims to build a digital library that it will eventually license to other companies to allow them to use the recovered content.

This idea is a tool that allows anyone to run their own private code review on Github.

A startup that helps real estate agents and their clients connect and update each others’ calendars.

This startup helps US companies deal with the $1.4 trillion in student loan debt.

A platform for automated trading. The startup’s goal is to bring better tech to the financial markets.

A platform that helps companies analyze their own data, with a focus on finding ways to make information more actionable.

A company that, instead of selling bikes and bike accessories, sells insurance for bikes and their accessories. The startup claims it has already signed up 100,000 customers in the UK.

This is a project management platform with two components. The first is the product, a team collaboration tool that connects members to the other tools they use for project management. The second is the company itself, which focuses on building software to help teams achieve their goals.

A tool that helps companies manage their services, from inventory to payments, from anywhere they have access to the web.

A startup that’s building a tool for creating interactive 3D models of objects, which are then easier to ship. The company wants to help them more efficiently use their 3D printers.

A pitch for a robot that builds things. At the moment it’s just a prototype that looks like an industrial robot and has the ability to build a table.

This startup is building an AI assistant that builds search queries based on the types of content you’re looking for. The assistant can then find related content in the web and find answers to your questions that way.

A platform for companies to sell products online, but only when people are searching for deals.

This company is building a platform that enables sales reps in India to take orders via text message and then send them to back-end sales reps who are working on an individual transaction.

A startup that helps businesses advertise to college students, as part of a bigger initiative to build a community of college students for businesses.

A startup to help businesses and organizations engage more with their communities. They’re building a platform that helps people think about business in a more connected way, like a marketplace where businesses can connect with their customers or users.

A software platform that optimizes the compilation process in software development. It’s a more efficient way of building software, and can help developers cut hours off of their product creation process.

A peer-to-peer car sharing app with an emphasis on safety. It’s also a marketplace for car parts, car sharing, and car repair. The company currently has around 100,000 members and $3M in revenue.

This startup helps consumers identify which products are made from recycled materials.

A way for businesses to get a more efficient, cloud-based accounting system. They have $1.8 million in funding.

A “productivity suite” that offers a suite of tools to help users track, review and improve their performance.

A team of engineers are developing a product platform for software development and automation. Their first product is a small team of bots that let you instantly communicate with anyone on Slack, and they are also developing conversational AI tools to automate tasks.

A pre-paid card that gives users access to a credit line, allowing them to buy small-ticket items that they don’t want to pay cash for. A debit card with a $5,000 limit.

A project created by YC alum Eric Migicovsky, it’s a device that can measure your physical activity and communicate with your smartphone.

M.A.S. Innovation is a startup that helps small businesses conduct online research. The company has built a digital research platform that allows businesses to conduct their own online searches and access a variety of digital services, including Hint.

An online marketplace that connects people who need services with people who offer them. The startup has raised $5.5 million in funding and is in the process of launching their marketplace.

A cloud-based service designed to help teams manage their data and ensure compliance.

A home security startup that monitors in-home security cameras and allows customers to turn on their lights or lock their doors remotely. The startup, which has raised a $750k seed round from a variety of investors, is already working with a dozen customers.

A tool for mobile developers that lets you build custom keyboards for certain devices.

A loyalty app which gives users points towards services they want through surveys, and then rewards them with discounts at other services. The startup, which has been around for over a year, is working with over 100 brands, including Airbnb, Amazon, and Lyft.

Idea: This startup helps restaurants streamline operations through an app that lets customers order their meals on a tablet and then pick them up at a counter inside the restaurant

“We're building a platform for hosting, connecting and monetizing all types of users. Our focus is to enable the most innovative entrepreneurs and brands to build unique applications with our tools."

A tool to help businesses in the UK and Canada hire more foreign workers. The app works to connect businesses with people who want to work, and helps employers get visas and other paperwork quickly.

This startup is building a marketplace for “sales-ready” websites and the themes they would be built around. The company provides their own hosting & domain names, but it’s up to the seller if they want to use them and with what.

A tiered plan for teams of developers to work together on the same projects, with a free tier that has limited features and a $10 per month plan that has access to all features.

A startup that is building an IoT-based sensor in the home that allows users to track things like air quality, water temperature, and light to get alerts when something is out of balance.

A startup looking to create an AI that helps companies manage their social media accounts.

A platform to build, publish and share content, connecting all the right players in the supply chain.

A company that’s building a suite of blockchain-based products for use by healthcare companies.

A startup that is building a software platform that allows stores to more easily and accurately track inventory on their shelves.

These are the best of the best of the “good” ideas from YC’s Summer 2019 applications round. These companies hope to launch accelerated programs in the next 4 months.

A company that allows for easy and secure access to your house from anywhere – even if you’re not home.

A Y Combinator-backed startup that’s building a tool that helps small businesses set up credit cards.

A company that wants to be the go-to agency for companies that want to grow their brand on social media.

A self-service multi-channel marketing platform that works across social, email, and traditional channels.

A startup that wants to make a way for brands to quickly and cheaply build an Instagram-like social media account directly on Facebook. Great for influencers who don’t want to deal with complicated Instagram accounts.

A startup that helps small businesses with their insurance needs. The startup is built on the backbone of a large insurance company and offers an online platform to protect small businesses from cyber risks and cyber thefts.

This startup helps customers find and book a doctor or specialist online.

A cloud-based platform that helps small to mid-sized organizations with their e-commerce operations.

A startup that wants to use IoT to help farmers avoid pesticides and decrease their input costs.

A digital concierge for shoppers in Mexico. The startup helps shoppers throughout Mexico, the US, and other countries find the best way to buy a product that’s in demand.

A way for people to sell their old sneakers, jewlery, and other items on facebook Marketplace.

A B2B product-development platform for companies seeking to build digital products.

This startup is creating a chatbot that will help users find the best deal on airline tickets, and provide recommendations based on personal preferences.

The app that makes it easy to find a place to get a haircut or a manicure.

A protocol that helps create custom experiences for wearable devices

A platform for the healthcare industry, offering a way for patients to get a diagnosis and treatment based on their symptoms.

Makes it easier for freelance developers to get paid.

A startup that wants to replace the traditional annual tax prep software with one that can be used to help employees and independent contractors file their taxes with ease.

A software company that can help companies provide the data about their customers that’ll help them make better, more personal, and more relevant marketing.

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A platform that helps businesses with payroll, HR, and more.

This is a way for people to show up at an event (like a conference) and automatically get access to the speaker’s slides and notes.

A platform for the sharing economy that accepts any asset (food, car, love, etc.) and then matches people who need them.

This startup is building a website that allows anyone to instantly and securely order a custom-made suit from a fabric designer.

A credit card that plugs into your phone, allowing you to swipe without having to pull out your phone. The company is also launching a loyalty app to track points.

A tool for teams to file and manage their patent applications

A digital bank that’s working with farmers and fisherman to get loans

A learning platform that helps people learn how to do certain things through a variety of different means.

A startup using AI to help companies and individuals find the best price for everything from auto insurance to life insurance.

An automated way for companies to build their own mobile applications. The startup’s founders say that it allows companies to create applications without having to hire developers or design them from scratch.

The startup wants to help you take better pictures and videos and save them in a single place. It’s called SoundSnap and it’s basically a mobile app that turns any camera into a video recorder.

A platform that lets users create and sell products on their site, with the help of a customized backend.

An enterprise platform for the pharmaceutical industry, helping companies manage and secure their supply chains

A startup that makes it easy for companies to develop and distribute their own apps, without the need to hire an app developer. The startup is a platform that connects app developers with freelancers and other companies who can help with things like development, marketing and design.

A platform for developers to build and sell custom apps in the Google Play Store.

This startup is working on software that helps legal professionals track their research — “research” is a term so broad it encompasses everything from reading court cases to scouring the internet for relevant information. The startup says it has $1 million in revenue.

This is an app that turns your phone into an emergency hotspot to connect with friends and family, and to help you dial 911.

A B2B startup that SaaS-izes the process of managing and tracking materials and products.

An AI-powered personal assistant that finds the cheapest ride for the user. The startup has over 500,000 rides booked since launching in April, with a 2% take rate.

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them with their social media presence (ie post on facebook, tweet, etc)

Idea: A startup that helps companies hire entry-level engineers by arming them with a set of pre-screening questions that help them identify potential candidates

A platform that allows people to make their own films, with courses and software to help them make their own learning videos.

A B2B platform that helps companies create public-facing websites without having to know HTML.

A customer support system that helps companies minimize the time it takes to fix their customers’ problems.

A company offering a SaaS-based product for small businesses that are looking to improve their website.

A company that provides software to help retailers and manufacturers save energy and money, especially in the new era of low-carbon regulations.

A software company that is building a solution for managing a client’s daily expenses, which they say is easier than using a spreadsheet or creating a budget online.

This is a marketplace that helps people invest in the stock market through peer-to-peer lending.

A startup that wants to build a predictive analytics platform that analyses video to determine what’s going on in the game. It’s good for fantasy leagues and betting.

A product that’s used to help companies manage their contractors and freelancers, with features like payroll, payment history, and a “contractor management dashboard”.

A startup that wants to learn people’s habits and use the information to suggest new products to them...with discounts.

Farmers can bring their entire supply chain online using a single management platform.

A startup that aims to connect insurance agencies with companies with insurance needs and claims to help them manage risk.

A startup that allows you to order take-out from a local restaurant and pay for it with your phone.

A startup that allows nonprofits to fundraise online and sell merchandise. The startup matches donors with nonprofits that need money, and allows users to also donate money to certain causes.

A startup that works with farmers to make meat that’s healthier for the planet and less bad for people

A tool that allows people to create their own 3D models of objects and designs and have them printed on a 3D printer.

A platform that makes it easy for companies and employees to get reimbursed for food ordered online. It’s currently working with a few international companies and has a few other international partnerships in the works.

The Startup Battlefield match-up features three teams and one team will win the prize of $50,000. The winner of the Battlefield will also receive a $25,000 investment from the founder of Groupon, Andrew Mason, and if they are successful, the winner will also have the option to have their company reviewed by Groupon.

A company that makes it easier for the visually impaired to translate symbols. The startup has raised $1.2 million.

A startup connecting businesses with people looking to rent/share their space, in the form of a Craigslist-like website.

A company that wants to remove inefficiency from the supply chain by allowing everyone on a supply chain to manage inventory together. It’s currently focused on the hospitality industry, with its app launching in June.

A company that helps small businesses in the US grow faster by delivering online marketing, sales, and customer support. They have raised a total of $2.8 million since launching in 2018.

A startup that wants to democratize “blockchain for the masses”.

Build a platform for independent filmmakers to find actors, crew and equipment for their movies.

A messaging platform for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, with text-to-speech translation and closed captioning.

Small but growing business that helps retailers and restaurants get paid faster

This startup aims to help small businesses like restaurants, beauty shops, and massage parlors easily buy and sell their products, with a focus on customers who want to sell products.

A startup that wants to make it easier for new startups to get funded by providing an online platform for finding investors.

A Facebook app that compiles all your Facebook activity into one place.

A startup for managing and tracking B2B relationships.

A startup that helps foster parents or others who want to become a foster parent learn about the process, find a family and make a home.

A mobile payment platform that allows businesses to accept payments in one of over 200 currencies and in local currencies. The startup is focused on working with small businesses around the world, but has signed up thousands of merchants in the last year.

This company is building a platform for global NGOs to better track and respond to the needs of vulnerable people around the world.

A tool that helps developers create better apps by reducing the need to log into a bunch of different sites and apps to track their users. The startup is currently building out a product to help the Philadelphia Eagles build a better fan app.

You’ll be able to “flip” your car with this startup.

This company is building a global mobile payments platform that uses AI and the power of the blockchain to grant users access to their money in the most efficient way, while also giving them an incentive to use it.

A visual calendar that lets you view data from your company, including upcoming events, meetings, and tasks, all in a single place. The startup’s app seems like a mashup of Google Calendar and Trello.

Bizbuyers is a “social shopping platform” that links businesses with buyers. The company wants to be an “Amazon for small businesses”.

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage startups and is a non-profit that helps entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors. The Startup Genome aims to improve the ecosystem by providing entrepreneurs with data to help guide their decisions and spread best practices.

This startup is building a consumer-facing marketplace for the home-sharing economy, where people can find a roommate to live in their home.

This startup is building a toolkit that allows users to take screenshots of videos and images and then add annotations to them, allowing the annotated media to drive sales.

A video editing platform that lets users edit 30-second videos that they’ve recorded privately with their phone.

A personal finance tracking app for unbanked women in Africa

A software startup that helps hospitals and clinics manage electronic medical records.

A product design company that helps companies create and launch products. The startup has a built-in digital product studio.

One of the original investors in OpenTable raised a $1 million seed round to help “Bring the magic back to the restaurant industry.”

A software company that helps other companies find the right people and superfans to help them build their product.

A company that aims to make it easy for you to create your own version of Dropbox or Google Drive.

A startup that aims to improve the quality of documents that doctors write for patients. The startup wants to make it easier for doctors to collaborate on and share their notes, with a mobile app for sharing patient information and an instant messaging channel for doctors to communicate with each other.

A tool that aims to help companies get a better sense of their social media performance, with a dashboard for teams to see all their online conversations.

A company building a browser extension to help you organize your e-mail inbox.

An AI startup that uses art as a core component of its product.

A platform that helps small businesses in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region sell and distribute goods.

A company that uses machine learning to provide a better, more accurate and faster search tool for genealogists.

A tool for small teams to manage projects and projects. The founders say that they want to create a new class of company, the “Project Manager”.

A maker of smartphones and tablets, the startup wants to sell its own operating system and make its own hardware.

This “Uber for cleaning” service allows customers to order cleaning services from their smartphone.

A startup that helps retailers manage inventory, increasing efficiencies and making more money.

A B2B product-development platform for companies seeking to build digital products.

The platform is building a collaborative tool for business owners to manage their professional social networks, helping them do things like track their online reputation, identify influencers and make better marketing decisions.

In the past, a person could get insurance through a company and then write off the cost of that insurance. With the advent of the individual market, many companies are no longer offering insurance because the rate they would have to charge is too low.

A startup that helps the construction industry build faster and more efficiently.

A B2B startup for LinkedIn for “the small business market”.

This company is building a platform for sharing and selling used furniture. The startup has a website where people can view and purchase furniture.

A mobile ticketing app with a twist. Rather than having to enter into a ticketing website, users can simply scan their ticket and get a notification when they’re at the gate.

Building a system for lending on small business loans for microloans. The founders say it can help small businesses access capital and provide a better lending experience.

A startup that tracks how much time people spend on various things, and then automatically pays them. Aimed at product managers who want to make sure people aren’t getting distracted.

The startup helps people sell their second-hand products online, with the process integrating with eBay.

A startup that helps businesses manage their infrastructure and make it easier to use a single source of truth across their entire network.

A startup that sells a USB-connected device that allows you to remotely control your home’s lights and television, and allow users to launch and log into apps on their phones.

A platform to shop for and share used cars, trucks, and SUVs by searching for and comparing available inventory via a mobile app, and then making an offer on a car with a simple swipe.

A new way to get enterprise-grade security for all your cloud apps using orchestration from a single source. It’s a security automation tool that promises to make security management easier for companies of all sizes.

A new way to build mobile apps that allow users to drag and drop content instead of typing it out.

A tool that helps companies in France, Germany, and Belgium connect to Chinese suppliers.

The company aims to become the “Amazon of corporate travel”. They currently have 2,000 users.

A digital app that helps people plan their finances for retirement, with features like automatic savings and investing.

A startup that wants to be the company that helps companies create a single record of all of their business information, including financial documents, employee records, etc.

"We believe that the world’s 2.5 billion farmers deserve access to information they can trust. We believe that everyone deserves an opportunity to improve their lives. We believe that, in the long run, this is good for the planet."

An online course marketplace that delivers college-level courses online, for a fraction of the price of on-campus courses.

A management platform for small businesses that wants to help companies grow. The startup says it’s already working with over 300 businesses, and is helping them improve their customer acquisition, sales and retention.

A way for people to sell their old sneakers, jewlery, and other items on facebook Marketplace.

A company that sells iPhone cases that double as an app-launching device, allowing users to launch their favorite apps by simply tapping their smartphone on the case.

A startup that helps companies and students organize their schoolwork, store it, and share it

A company that helps manufacturers get their products to market faster. The company uses automated tooling facilities to produce prototypes.

Pitchbook presents two popular pitch events: the "Pitch It" event and the "Pitch It" event.

A company that helps people pack their own medical supplies in order to save money.

A startup that helps people buy and sell things locally through the app. Pricy is hoping to compete with services like Carousell and OLX, which have been operating in the same niche for years.

A startup that makes it easy for businesses to manage their employee’s accounts, giving admins the ability to see where money is going and how much is coming in from what.

Health apps are usually available on smartphones, tablets, and computers. Haze is building a smartphone app that helps patients monitor their health and stay in control of appointments.

An automation platform that helps businesses manage the manual steps involved in order fulfillment, from tracking and managing inventory to automating how orders are processed.

A company that can assemble furniture from a factory in China, and ship it directly to a customer.

A platform that lets you search through a pool of experts.

A startup that sets up an online store and connects it to a peer-to-peer market

This startup is looking to help companies find and hire the best team, whether they’re a startup or an established enterprise. The platform is built around identifying and assembling the right people for the job, helping employers quickly find and hire the right employees.

A network of robot-powered drones that delivers packages to customers in real time.

Zapier wants to help small businesses automate physical tasks using web tools. It’s currently in private beta with a few thousand users, and the startup is seeking to raise funding to grow it.

A tool for helping employees find and buy employees gifts.

A way for companies to take online surveys without the hassle of paper.

A startup that provides diagnoses and treatment recommendations via a phone app.

A startup that helps businesses manage the invoicing process through software, allowing them to focus their time on other tasks.

A SaaS that serves as a “commercial intranet” for companies, developed by a former Microsoft executive. The company says it has nearly 1,000 customers and has raised $30 million in funding.

This startup is building a “robot-assisted” system to help doctors with their surgeries, using artificial intelligence to spot problems and make decisions while they operate.

A “pay as you go” payment system for people with no credit history, to help them get ahead in their lives by buying goods and services on credit.

Using a bevy of different marketing channels to find the right customers, including email, Facebook and Google Adwords. The startup also pitches that it can offer a customized solution based on a person’s specific needs.

A tool for healthcare providers to manage patient records and scheduling.

A product that’s used to help companies manage their contractors and freelancers, with features like payroll, payment history, and a “contractor management dashboard”.

The startup is building a mobile network for remote employees that can use the network to send and receive files, make calls, and respond to email.

A platform for managing your life with a CRM, contacts, calendar events, and tasks.

A startup that aims to make podcasting more accessible and easier to use with services like audio-only versions

A startup that helps people pay for things, whether it’s a ride or a cup of coffee. The startup charges a fee of $5.95/month to charge and pay for things, and there’s an option to opt in for free.

A restaurant delivery app for Miami. The startup helps restaurants deliver food to customers in their homes for pick up.

This startup is building a marketplace for professional services, meaning companies can get services from agencies online rather than going through a broker.

A startup for online learning. The startup says its users are saving 50% on their education costs.

a startup focused on using AI to detect fraudulent activity on a credit card.

A CPA firm that helps small businesses with accounting, bookkeeping, and tax services. The startup is in the process of launching an iOS app for managing employees.

A company that helps hospitals and other medical facilities cut down on expensive paper records.

A startup with a team of 3 that’s going to help companies in the B2B space reduce/eliminate fraud at the point of sale of their products. They’re targeting B2B companies in the US, Canada, and Europe.

A startup that provides support to people with mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression.

A startup that lists all the things you’d like to buy, but haven’t been able to find. The startup’s founder says his product is like a “Netflix for Amazon” and that it earns him around $10,000 a month.

A toolset for anyone looking to start their own company.

A company that offers a digital version of a physical notary public.

A B2B company that helps companies take their on-demand services to the next level. It’s a service that helps companies plan, design, and build the services for their business.

An email marketing tool to help people get paid for writing emails.

A new kind of search engine that gets results from dozens of sources and instantly returns more relevant results to users. Its search engine can also be connected to digital assistants like Alexa or Google Home

A startup that’s bringing equity crowdfunding to the US.

Idea: A startup that aims to replace the ancient, insecure, and expensive fax machine with a paper-less, secure, and cheaper system. The startup is working with large corporations to do this, and has sold $100,000 in the last month, with a 2.5% take rate.

The startup is working on a product to use in the operating room to help correct eye and head alignment.

A real estate agent that helps find and sell commercial and residential properties, while also connecting users with other professionals.

Venture-backed startup that helps developers easily create social apps for their customers.

A solution for startup founders to find and hire technical talent.

This startup is building financial and accounting software that’s meant to make accounting quick, easy, and fun. The company is currently building out a prototype of the software and is looking to raise $1M in capital.

A chatbot that helps people learn Spanish vocabulary and grammar. The startup wants to build a tool that helps people learn Spanish by chatting with a bot. It’s already built out a prototype and has launched a pilot with Canvas.

A realtime database that crunches social media and digital marketing analytics from realtime sources. The startup is focusing on the UK market.

A software as a service product that allows people to make their own custom hats and other clothing items.

Builds a “smart” light bulb with an app that gives you suggestions for what color to use based on your mood and the time of day.

A group messaging app that gives users of all ages the ability to text and call their friends, including the elderly and the disabled.

The Business of College is a collection of stories and advice from YC partners who will be sharing their experiences from the 2015 class in a series of blog posts.

A startup that wants to build a discount drug pricing loyalty card with a goal of reducing the cost of prescription medications by up to 50%.

A platform for early stage companies that focuses on the content side of an entrepreneur’s portfolio

A startup that’s building a subscription service for digital comic books. The company wants to offer a monthly subscription to any digital comic book without having to have it digitally purchased.

A platform for paying health care providers. The company is focused on providing compliance and automation services to the health care industry.

A tool for managing crowdfunded products, focusing on the last mile of crowdfunding, helping scalability and distribution.

A personal assistant for the elderly with a focus on loneliness, loneliness, and loneliness.

A software company that helps companies build out their marketing automation systems, allowing them to focus on the marketing tasks they know how to do well rather than managing spreadsheets.

Slack is building a tool for teams to work together from anywhere, on any device.

A platform for helping people invest in their retirement portfolios

A data center with a 1 MW capacity for storing data and a network of 20,000 servers. It aims to help businesses and governments solve big problems with big data.

A tool that helps companies issue and track time off for regular employees

A maker of smartphones and tablets, the startup wants to sell its own operating system and make its own hardware.

A startup that will allow users to order a ride on demand, for a flat rate. The company is one of the startups in a new, large-scale industry that wants to change the way that people move around the city and get around places in their downtime.

A company that helps people who want to start a business but need more information on the legalities of doing so.

This startup is building a platform for auto-updating software that works with auto manufacturers to build an app that helps support and troubleshoot consumers’ cars.

A toolkit for companies to bring EHS up to speed with compliance regulations, including a way to assess which regulations might apply to them that they otherwise wouldn’t have known about.

Idea: A mobile app for first aid responders, allowing them to better coordinate in the field. The app has a fast search capability, letting responders easily find supplies and guides.

The platform is building a toolkit for designers to build custom user interfaces for their mobile apps.

Marathi version of the popular web series Watsi, and continues to air on Jaihind TV.

A social network for the "minority" population. It aims to build tools for people who are hyper-aware of their social status, and want to share what they’re doing in the hopes of finding others like them.

A company that helps companies build the frontends for their data analysis applications, for CRM, supply chain, and more.

A startup that helps small-business owners create a sales process that’s easy to follow and efficient to execute. The app helps small-business owners track their sales process, manage customer relationships, and manage their inventory.

A password management startup that helps people establish unique passwords for every website and app, and helps them remember them.

The startup’s website says, “Lufthansa delivers to you.”

A startup that helps schools and universities share lesson plans and curriculum with their students, who can follow them at home on their smartphone.

A platform that helps small business owners in India use their app to accept payments, and enables customers to pay with a couple of taps.

A program that helps job seekers find jobs and improves their chances of getting hired.

A platform that helps colleges and universities manage their relationships with alumni who have given money.

This is a way for business to pay their employees in bitcoin.

A startup that aims to solve the problem of “reputation” for people, who will be able to manage all of their information on one platform, as opposed to multiple.

A startup that wants to be the Wikipedia of insurance companies, allowing agents to research coverage on any company, to avoid calling the wrong company before doing business.

Food-delivery service for the elderly and homebound that doesn’t require a driver.

A company building a social network for influencers.

A real-time platform for securely sharing someone’s address, which can also be livestreamed. It’s meant for sharing a person’s location with emergency services, for instance, or for a family to announce an address change in a video.

They’re building a tool to help companies make decisions about where to open new stores based on a person’s purchasing history.

A startup that secures your personal info, especially sensitive information like medical records and bank accounts.

A platform for connecting buyers and sellers of real estate, with a goal to make the process of buying and selling real estate as easy as using Swappa to buy an iPhone.

A startup that aims to deliver more than 100,000 tons of food a year to people in developing countries

A free 3D printer for students and educators. The company is also launching a subscription service to provide access to more advanced models and features.

A tool that helps cities build an API for companies to be able to monitor traffic and respond quickly to incidents.

This is a startup that uses a mobile app and a camera to find street-level recycled products and sell them to the public. They started with old library books and DVDs, but are now selling all sorts of things.

The startup aims to make managing web apps easier with a toolset that evaluates the security of a website, then automatically sets up a SSO for a developer to use.

A payment system for small businesses in the Philippines, with a focus on remittance, based on a user’s location. The startup wants to target merchants with a high volume of transactions but low capacity, such as small shops and restaurants.

A global online marketplace for more than 5,000 businesses, connecting them with small business owners in a variety of sectors.

A startup building a way for academic scientists to focus their work more on research and less on data management. The startup aims to reduce human errors in lab work and make scientific research more efficient.

This is an in-house survey tool for customer feedback. It’s designed to help companies gather feedback from their own employees to help them improve their products.

A plan to solve the problem of 3rd-party open source code, providing a way for developers to get access to source code from major open source software projects without having to pay for it.

A platform that helps businesses set up and manage their e-commerce site with a backend system.

A tool that lets you build a phone number from a website

A startup creating a platform for the creation of customized, AI-powered marketing mailers

The startup is looking to help investors diversify their portfolios by providing a way to track and analyze stocks on their phone

A startup that aims to “make it easier for everyone in the world to have a home internet connection” with a hardware product that plugs into an electrical outlet.

A digital education platform for low-income students, helping them understand their financial aid eligibility.

A tool for medical product development, aimed at pharma companies and biotech startups.

A startup that builds on the idea of the “work week”, creating a calendar that syncs work with life, so you don’t get in a rut. The company says it has over $3M in funding, and is currently in the pre-launch stage of its business.

A “virtual assistant” for managing customer service, sales and marketing, and finance teams. The startup wants to act like a personal assistant, making the process more efficient for the user.

A company that matches recruiters with applicants quickly and easily via text messaging and chat.

A startup that helps people share their homes with others, acting as a kind of Airbnb for people to rent out their spaces.

Visionary Enterprise has received funding from Y Combinator since 2009

A health staff scheduling and planning app for dentists.

This company wants to make it easier for businesses to manage their customer data. They’ve been in stealth mode for

This startup is building a platform to help increase worker productivity and better manage workloads.

A startup that builds a virtual reality “smart glove” for developers. The startup wants to make it easier for programmers to use the “magical” gloves that can track the tiny movements we make when typing, and other gestures.

A startup that lets users share and manage a library of videos

A tool for identifying mistakes in contracts, especially for real estate and litigation. It uses machine learning to identify errors that lawyers could miss and then help engineers fix them.

A digital tool to help people plan and organize their lives by aggregating all of their online calendars and to-do lists into one place.

A content management platform that works across different platforms and allows users to take advantage of the content they create, even if they don’t have their own website.

A company that allows you to buy and sell goods on eBay directly from within a mobile app. Founded by former Facebook exec Justin Kan, Hangers was started in 2014 and has raised $5.5 million. and has over 30,000 users.

The company wants to take the cost of sending parcels internationally to $0.

A startup which tracks where your money goes on the web and alerts you to hidden costs.

This startup makes a machine that allows users to draw on the screen using air pressure.

A digital concierge that helps people find the best options for a variety of services, including the best hair stylist, the best car service, or the best restaurant.

A startup that builds a tool to help parents keep track of their kids’ photos and videos.

A smart phone app that makes it easier to find the cheapest airfare for travel on Facebook. The startup has already seen success with the app, and says they’ve seen a 150% increase in the number of people in India who use it on a daily basis.

A way to enable co-working spaces with a layer of social data

A startup that’s building a way to help people book and get tickets to concerts, sporting events, or other events.

A marketing automation tool for creating and managing email campaigns.

A real-time translation app that takes the place of traditional translation apps. It works by pulling in translated text from multiple sources in real-time.

A tool for visually describing code. It’s a new way to describe code and help developers figure out what they want to do with their code.

A B2B company that allows people to enter and view basic information about products in medical supply catalogs. The company is looking to partner with pharmaceutical companies to streamline the ordering process, and then help prescription customers find the best prices.

A startup that generates a custom color palette for a product

The company is a funding-and-dissemination platform for science projects. It’s funded by Y Combinator, and has raised $2.6M in seed funding.

An online platform that helps small-scale farmers sell their excess produce. It allows farmers to post prices and where to buy the produce, and consumers to buy directly from farmers.

Activell is a browser-based service that helps companies track and report their social media efforts. The startup says it can manage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram campaigns across the globe.

A SaaS platform to help companies set up and easily manage and measure employee wellbeing programs, as well as provide advice on setting up these programs.

A startup that helps you find the best time to book a flight, and what time of day is the best for planes to be available

This is a startup that wants to help people sell their old stuff on Craigslist, using their own photos and descriptions to sell their items without the hassle of eBay or Craigslist.

A company that launched in the UK in June 2019, with plans to expand to the US and Europe later in 2019. Their goal is to help “commercial real estate professionals” manage and optimize their buildings.

A new way to train employees without the usual expense of traditional employees. The company says they’re working with many large universities on a new way to train employees in areas like documentation, procurement, and project management without the need for a full-time employee.

Making office supplies more environmentally friendly, allowing a company to buy paper cones and cups in bulk, rather than using them up and throwing them away.

A platform that helps people collaborate on ideas in a way that’s faster and more efficient.

A startup that has built a way to allow companies to streamline their process of providing employee benefits to their employees.

The startup offers a new approach to workplace performance reviews: a behavior based feedback system that rewards positive actions and punishes negative ones.

A mobile payments solution for mobile network operators (think AT&T and Verizon). The mobile payments startup wants to be the first mobile payments platform to offer both mobile network operators and mobile carriers a platform to build mobile payments solutions.

A startup for independent contractors that helps them find gigs and charge.

A new startup that aims to disrupt the real estate industry by allowing anyone to rent out spare rooms in their houses and apartments.

A startup that wants to be the best place to keep all your doctors’ notes.

We’re used to going to a retail store and buying a product from a single brand. The startup wants to make it easier to find the product that’s right for you by making a detailed product finder in a new kind of retail store.

Real-time task management software for you to send your to-do items to team members.

An SMS-based platform for sending and receiving money, with a focus on small transactions and users in emerging markets. Their idea is to allow people to transact across the street or across the country without going through a bank and without needing a bank account.

A platform for anyone to create their own workout video.

A company that builds an app to help companies manage the design and build of their websites, including features like site-wide updates.

A SaaS platform for companies to manage their social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

A startup that’s looking to develop a “virtual assistant for the IoT”

A company that wants to help freelancers with their invoicing, payments, and overall financial management.

A company that builds automated tools for teams that create online courses.

A community of people who want to live in space, and want to live in space for at least $200,000. They want to live in space because they think it’s a better place to live than Earth. They want to live in space because they think it will be cheaper than if they were to live on Earth. And they want to live in space because they think it will be safer than if they were to live in Earth.

A B2B company that helps companies establish customized policies that are automatically executed for employees based on their usage of the company’s software.

The startup is building a network of smart locks that work with a variety of home automation systems.

A tool that helps improve your photography by showing you how you look in each and every frame.

A new platform that creates targeted ads using the data from your social media. It’s not clear how exactly this would work, but the startup is hoping to “dramatically change the way brands target customers”.

A product that helps companies and agencies track employee time, location and performance from multiple devices.

Startup founders are being more aggressive in the US, with a few companies in the last year getting VCs to fund them at seed or Series A-level, when they may have previously been too early.

A company that uses machine learning to create products that help senior citizens with activities of daily living, such as shopping, banking and making phone calls.

A platform for sharing and selling meals for home chefs, and a way for those chefs to interact with each other.

This startup is building a new way to work that allows you to quickly create a virtual meeting room for your team (with audio, video, and other features) and then broadcast it to whoever is interested.

A startup that will be launched by Ben Horowitz, which will be the first project of his new Horowitz Center for Entrepreneurship. The company will create a social network for network engineers to receive and give feedback on code.

A B2C product that helps consumers share and find that perfect picture of what they are looking for.

Retail startup that works with retailers to get merchandise into the hands of customers on an evening delivery service, making it more likely that customers will buy.

A startup that wants to help employers manage the ever-expanding amount of “digital content” they need to produce.

This startup is helping people make money from their car data, by selling information about the cars users drive, like car-related events and gas purchases.

A tool for online learning, similar to LinkedIn Learning or Udacity. The startup helps you integrate, manage, and track your educational programs.

A startup meant to help small businesses keep track of their day-to-day expenses. The company hopes to help small companies keep track of their day-to-day expenses and tap into their savings potential.

Idea: A 3D audio startup that is trying to make podcasting more immersive by using binaural audio. The app has a pretty strong take on the future of podcasting, and its founder says that the company is profitable.

A startup for on-demand, personalized, restaurant recommendations. The startup plans to launch in the fall of 2019.

A digital platform that allows small businesses to create a “professional profile,” allowing them to connect with customers, decide what to do in situations like offer discounts, etc.

This startup is building a way for e-commerce companies to track inventory, create alerts, and optimize supply chain processes.

A startup that uses the blockchain to help the World Bank manage the crises in the developing world.

A digital health platform connecting patients with their medical records for easier access, usage tracking, and keeping up with appointments.

A startup that provides a service where people can have a personal assistant who is an expert at daily activities (laundry, cooking, cleaning)

An AI-based chatbot that helps you with your fitness goals. The bot offers customized workouts based on your goals, goals, and history.

A startup that offers a variety of revenue opportunities to creators, including merchandising, subscriptions, and merchandising.

An online marketplace for the sharing of cars. Carpool is already in cities in the US and Europe, but the founders want to expand it to Africa and Asia.

A tool for companies that want to hire independent contractors. Competing with TaskRabbit, TaskUs, and others.

A mobile app that connects you to the best local restaurants based on your search results.

The startup is creating a way for marketers to track their digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels and learn a lot about their customers along the way.

A way to get monthly market quotes from a few different sources, pitched as an alternative to the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.

A startup that provides a way for tech companies to manage their digital marketing as one source for all their marketing needs.

A tool for building and connecting ad hoc APIs to help companies develop and deploy on-demand APIs on platforms like Slack.

An artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that helps brands find the most relevant influencers to engage with and buy from.

This startup aims to help people identify the underlying cause of their pain and then sell them an app that’ll help them treat it.

A startup that wants to use the blockchain to help create a system that collects and tracks all your data to build a “trusted record of the world’s food supply.”

Making it easier to receive payments in the US.

A SaaS service for helping developers build mobile applications for retailers.

A startup that helps users register for local events, including concerts, art shows, meetups, and sports games. The startup is growing quickly, with over 30,000 events registered in the past year.

A startup that provides a OTC marketplace for people to buy and sell crypto

A dateable dating app, not unlike Bumble.

A startup for companies to share their content with their employees via a video conference

The company’s client list includes brands such as BBDO, Union Bank, Accenture, and Yahoo, and its primary product is a service that helps webpages load faster.

A new startup that aims to modernize the payments industry for businesses, making it faster, cheaper, and more secure.

A startup that works with corporates to set up and manage employee wellness programs.

A travel search engine that features a social network for finding travel deals.

A platform that helps companies manage their customer support. S2W helps companies provide products and services to their customers via chat.

This startup is building a tool for restaurants to allow customers to order food and drinks without ever talking to a waiter or waitress, and without giving out their phone number.

A B2B startup that is building out a managed marketplace for insurance companies to find and compare quotes from different carriers.

A tool that helps companies convert web traffic into revenue. It’s an example of a promising tool that will help democratize data.

A tool to allow users to sign up for data plans over Facebook Messenger, without having to get a new number.

A private, secure messaging app that allows you to communicate with people who have already invited you.

A startup that reduces time and costs involved in obtaining and renewing a US work visa

In this video, a startup founder runs through a list of companies:

A marketer that offers a platform to connect brands with influencers, who can be paid to promote brands and products.

The MIT Media Lab’s new venture that “helps patients discover their most effective treatments through digital medicine.”

A startup that makes it easier for medical professionals and public health workers to track and share data about outbreaks

A company that’s building a voice recognition tool for coding and machine learning.

A global, autonomous, decentralized network of plane makers, flight attendants, maintenance personnel, pilots, and airplane part suppliers.

A mobile app where people can donate money to artists or bands that they like. The startup is working with artists like N.E.R.D., KATY PERRY, and SEX AND THE CITY.

This company is building a “natural language processing platform for chatbots”.

This startup is building an app that enables workers to schedule tasks via a mobile app instead of an email. They’re currently working on a version for freelance workers, but they’ve also written a book on how to run your business without a web presence.

A tool for keeping track of the money you've spent in a day, so you can go back and see how much of it you've spent on each thing.

A web-based platform for musicians to publish their work, including lyrics, music videos, and merchandise. The startup is building an online community to help musicians connect with fans.

Siri is a personal assistant that learns your needs, and notifies you when it needs additional information. The startup is building a social network in which you can connect with other users that are a similar level of expertise to you. The team was also behind the now defunct

A tool for sales reps to get started with cold emailing and the sales cycle.

A startup that is building a platform that will allow people to save and withdraw money from their savings accounts through their cell phone.

A startup for home security systems, where sellers can list their products for sale.

This is an in-app payment system for coffee shops and diners.

A startup that helps people sell off extra stuff they have lying around, including their own cars.

A startup that focuses on helping companies compare rental car prices based on their specific needs, and then makes the process as painless as possible.

Idea: A startup that is building an end-to-end solution for businesses making hardware to help them get funded and bring their product to market. They want to automate a lot of the backend work needed to launch hardware like creating a company and getting funding.

A new way to book airfare with a focus on flexible travel options. The startup wants to expand the options to include home-away-from-home programs, and will work with companies to offer payment plans, etc.

This company aims to help with medical transcription. The startup is building a medical transcription platform that it hopes will replace the need for third-party companies like Lexmark and Scansoft.

A company that makes AI-powered software to help nonprofits, raising funds from the community.

A company that helps employers build out a network of employees they can track and manage.

A tool that helps brands and influencers increase social media engagement

Idea: Schedule, organize, and pay for a group vacation

A tool designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses get their online through a series of video interviews.

A platform for building art, where anyone can create a piece of art in minutes. The app uses a unique algorithm to make it easier and more accessible for people to make art, and it’s often seen as the most unique aspect of the platform.

A company that sells a device to keep your television screen from interfering with the signal you’re watching.

The company behind the $500,000 World Cup prize pool, FanDuel is building a baseball-based fantasy game. FanDuel has a head start in the US and UK, but will need to grow in other countries to have an impact.

A tool to help you manage multiple social media profiles, with a section for managing your Instagram account.

This is a software platform for building customized software. The startup claims to have more than 1,000 clients worldwide, including HP, AT&T, Nest, and Dreamworks.

A free messaging app that is meant to replace Slack.

An auto-replacement tool for software developers.

A fast-growing global microfinance platform that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses access credit and loans.

A platform for exchanging data between different sectors.

A Slack client for business teams and entrepreneurs.

A tool for creating a budget and tracking expenses. The company was founded in April, and currently has 10 employees.

A startup that helps people find the right mortgage by securing a lender with a network of experts who know the market well.

This startup is working on a hardware solution for power outages.

A company that produces what it describes as a “cross between a startup and a university”, designed to provide a platform for the next generation of American startups.

A startup that aims to help parents get their kid’s homework done. The company builds a platform for teachers to provide online computing to students via web-based apps.

A system that keeps track of employees’ and customers’ pain points and tries to fix them.

A company focusing on building an AI-powered platform to help manufacturers plan and think through production processes.

A phone app that lets consumers track their car and its maintenance. The startup is working on a new charging dock that will operate with a single cable, so consumers can charge their cars without having to worry about cables.

A data visualization tool that offers individualized reports for each user, combining data from multiple sources and presenting them to an end user in a way that is easy to digest. The company’s first product, released in 2019, is for healthcare and financial services.

A software platform that allows users to control and visualize their data. The goal is to provide a user-friendly interface that allows users to visualize, analyze and make decisions across their data, and tell what’s happening and what they can do about it. Think of it as a personal dashboard for your own data.

A company that wants to help consumers build and grow their own personal brands by selling them on merchandise and experiences, similar to what Amazon does with Amazon Prime.

A health-focused calendar and email app that sends reminders to patients about appointments, tests and more.

A platform for artists to create videos of their paintings and sell them to people who can’t make it to their home.

A company that helps developers build games on blockchain, including a set of tools that let them build games without needing to deal with cryptography.

This startup is building a social-based platform where people can share, rate and review restaurant dishes and locations

According to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, there were over 2.4 million startup founders working in the United States.

A startup that wants to bring Bitcoin ATMs to society, and is working on a standalone card for the space.

A platform that connects freelance professionals with clients. It’s free to sign up, and offers a free “referral” service to get new clients.

A platform for rehabbing houses, allowing customers to access a network of experienced contractors, and easily book them.

Recruitment platform that breaks down job descriptions into the skills that hiring managers need.

Sorted is a B2B company that uses artificial intelligence to help companies make better business decisions. It looks at a business’s data and trends and looks for patterns that suggest changes in financials, marketing, and sales.

A startup that helps small businesses gain trust with tools to increase security, privacy, and transparency

A team-building platform for remote teams.

This is a “social media for stores”, letting retailers create their own social media accounts to tell their cool stories and promote their products. It was one of the first startups to launch out of YC, and is 12 people now.

This startup is creating a digital wallet for offline retailers. The company says it’s already signed up with 7,000 retailers, including Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.

A company making products for businesses that help them with their sales and marketing.

A tool that helps cities build an API for companies to be able to monitor traffic and respond quickly to incidents.

A startup building a self-driving platform for agricultural applications, from crop and animal management to robot delivery of goods.

A credit card that eliminates overdraft fees by using a line of credit, which is funded by a credit card so the user can pay their bills without paying interest.

A startup that’s working to make the mental health sector more accessible to people through a smartphone app. It can be used to support people who have depression, anxiety and other forms of mental illness. The app works by connecting users with personal care managers who can make appointments with a therapist, prescribe medication and make referrals.

This company is building a platform for remote employees to share their screen and have feedback on how they’re doing.

A web-based platform for managing customer service research.

A Marketplace for freelance designers, where designers can post their designs, and then have them built by artisans in the marketplace.

The six-episode series is written by the late Blaine Capatch and directed by his brother, Daniel Capatch, and is produced by Blaine Capatch's company, Significant Productions. It stars Marla Sokoloff, Kyle MacLachlan, Taye Diggs, and Kathleen Quinlan.

A business analytics software company that wants to help companies make better decisions and build better products.

A startup that is a marketplace for furniture that is designed by students of architecture school

The startup uses machine learning to help companies better understand and prioritize their marketing spend

A personal assistant that supports you through the purchase process.

A software-as-a-service platform for insurance companies to manage claims, claims payable and collections.

A tool to let people know when their favorite TV shows are on,

This startup is building an app to help educators better track student performance in their classrooms.

A platform that allows users to instantaneously buy a piece of art from their favorite artists.

A digital marketplace for pre-made email newsletters. They say they’re building the email equivalent of Amazon’s marketplace.

A B2B SaaS that helps businesses get paid faster and get paid right.

A portfolio app for young entrepreneurs, giving them a place to showcase their work by way of a digital portfolio.

A social network for church members that wants to help members find others of like faith.

A tax preparation software that handles all the calculations for you, and gets you the most money.

A cloud-based system for SMBs to book and manage their work schedules

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to go to restaurants with them and make suggestions about the menu

A new start-up that wants to make it easier for students to access their grades, assignments, and other materials. The company is currently offering a free plan for students and has raised a $2.5M seed round to date.

A user-friendly platform for enterprises to build, manage, and scale their user-generated content.

The startup is building a tool for finding investors for startups.

A digital marketing agency that wants to solve the problem of customer retention.

A financial services firm that helps business owners manage their finances. The firm’s founder, 19-year-old Christopher Cagney, says he came up with the idea after he saw a “bunch of people who had been ripped off” by their banks.

This is a collaboration tool that helps teams collaborate on projects by integrating tasks across email, Slack, Trello, and Google Drive.

A tool for making a one-of-a-kind personalized ringtone for your phone, that’s only yours, and can’t be uploaded to a cloud music service.

A music festival that uses GPS data to create a giant map of the festival site and then plays concert-goers on a huge screen.

An AI that is trained to help determine the price of a particular asset, and automatically alert buyers and sellers when it sees an opportunity to make an investment.

A tool to help programmers manage their time, to increase productivity and reduce distractions.

A “field guide for the digital age” that helps users decide which technology options to use for their product. They currently have 11,000 customers and a product that’s been used to build over 30,000 products.

This startup is building a virtual assistant that works on Slack and other messaging platforms.

The startup is bringing online education to the masses with a platform for on-demand classes, live courses and video tutorials. Users pay via Paypal and can choose between monthly and annual memberships.

The startup is building a system that will allow companies to use the power of artificial intelligence to detect fraud. The company is currently in private beta and just closed a $1.2 million seed round, led by Nautilus Ventures.

The goal of this startup is to create a way for business to get feedback on their website from their customers, then use the data to make changes to their site to improve conversion rates. The startup is in early stages, but is attempting to attract investors and create a working prototype.

A startup that wants to take on the gig economy by connecting companies that need temporary workers with people who want them.

A company that helps people learn conversational Portuguese online, through online courses.

A platform for organizing and sharing events, with a mobile app and desktop version.

A video-game startup that is building a platform that allows users to create and monetize their own mobile games. The company has been working on the idea for over two years, and is now ready to launch.

In the last two years, the cost of building a nuclear plant in the US has increased seven times, while the cost of building a solar plant has dropped. Upstart Energy is building a solar plant in the desert of California to compete with utility companies that have built nuclear plants. The startup aims to use an asset-light model and build a plant for around $1.5 billion.

This startup wants to build a platform where users can order food from their favorite restaurant, have it delivered to their door, and track its progress.

A startup that helps restaurants reduce costs by automating their point-of-sale systems, so they can focus on other areas of their business.

A startup for nonprofits to support their membership, fundraising, and communications via an API.

A new way to get ahold of a new hire. The company offers a service to get your new hires onboarded and trained, and was founded in August

This is a startup that’s building an app and platform to help people in countries like India save money on their utility bills by installing solar panels on their homes, which are already building excess energy into the grid.

A platform for managing and selling social media accounts. The company plans to make a browser extension that will place your social media feed in a dashboard for you to see, and then allow you to manage all of your social media accounts from one place. It’s expected to raise $20 million in a Series A.

This startup wants to help contractors get paid on time, by giving them a virtual presence on restaurant sites.

A micro-loan company that helps small businesses and individuals get loans in the US, with a focus on the Mid-Atlantic.

A company that designs, manufactures, and sells wireless sensors that can be used to detect motion, temperature, and moisture in homes and offices.

This is a startup building a platform for crowdsourced data for the cannabis industry. Current users include a company that develops cancer treatments, and a company that does research on how cannabis interacts with other drugs. It’s also working with a company that’s trying to build a regulatory compliance system for the cannabis industry.

This company is building a platform to allow users to buy and sell their “real-estate” on the blockchain.

A new way to evaluate performance, using machine learning to predict whether a team will meet goals before they’re even met.

A startup that’s building an AI-enabled chatbot for legal services. The company has $1 million in seed funding.

A startup that aims to help employees manage their work from home workflows on Slack, Github, and other services.

This is a platform for on-demand home services, like plumbers, electricians, and everything else.

A video chat solution for businesses that helps them communicate with their customers.

A startup that uses AI to help customers determine which of their products would sell well in search. The startup is based in Barcelona.

Caava is a digital platform that helps businesses to manage their liability, and aims to make the process much easier by putting the burden on a blockchain.

This startup aims to make it easier for people to take pictures of their food, and to turn them into a food blog.

A startup to help people build their own personal brands and manage their online communities

A Y Combinator-backed startup that’s building a tool that helps small businesses set up credit cards.

A startup that wants to replace the block of text displayed in a status update with a GIF

A self-service tool for enterprise software that helps salespeople track leads, close deals, and monitor their performance. The startup is building on the success of its previous product, a CRM.

A software for giving doctors feedback on medical records.

A SaaS platform for digital advertising, which allows advertisers to manage their budgets and deliver more personalized ads by understanding the intent of the consumer. The startup says they have $5-6k in revenue since launching in May.

Startup that’s building a platform for creating tools for publishers to manage their brands and products. It’s like a platform for brands to set up their own Facebook pages, but for e-commerce.

Manages over $20 billion of assets and manages this via a smartphone app. It’s also an e-commerce platform for other businesses to sell their wares on the platform.

A startup that wants to democratize “blockchain for the masses”.

A person can’t buy domain names any more. So instead they can go to a URL registrar like GoDaddy and buy a name pair like “www.airlines.com”. The startup is taking names in the .com, .net, .org, .us and .gov TLDs and buying them up in bulk with the idea that it can then resell them at a premium.

An online platform that aggregates online reviews of products from around the web (from Amazon to Yelp)

A startup that connects freelance designers with companies who need branding work done

A machine learning startup that builds innovative software to help people learn and save money on everyday purchases.

A video game that lets you play with your friends in a virtual reality world.

A company that provides an online marketplace for mystery shopping services. The startup is experimenting with ways to give shoppers more choice in how they purchase items.

An online marketplace for used items, which they claim has a $10-million monthly revenue stream via their website.

This startup wants to use blockchain to help people get free school supplies, food, and health care.

Idea: A startup for local home services (eg plumbing, electrical, landscaping) The company is also building out a mobile platform called On-the-Job that it says will allow customers to book services directly from their phone and schedule appointments

A tool that lets restaurants and venues book and manage live performances.

This company is looking to make booking flights easier, especially for people with frequent international travel. The startup is currently only available in the UK.

A startup that sells ready-made food for people who live in an area where it’s hard to get good quality food

A startup that lets users pay for their parking via a mobile app. The company says it’s currently working with over 1,000 parking lots and is profitable, in part because it cuts out the

A company that helps SMBs with business development, marketing, and sales, which it says is a $1 billion market in the US.

A startup that helps influencers gain access to the best brands and products. The startup is a tool for influencers to distribute and promote products.

A startup that makes it easy for companies to pay suppliers in real time. The system is meant to integrate with existing point of sale systems.

A startup that makes it easier to communicate with doctors remotely. Doctors can chat with patients via a smartphone or the web, and can see what prescriptions they’ve already written and what they’re working on right now.

An AI-based platform for marketers to create and distribute large-scale email campaigns at scale. The startup wants to help marketers copy and paste some of the work they do in traditional email marketing to email marketing automation.

A startup developing a novel technology allowing people to exchange information in a way that is secure and private.

Idea: A startup that aims to be “the Uber for trucking”, claiming that the transportation industry is a $7 trillion sector ripe for disruption. It has a similar pitch to Uber Freight, which focuses on helping smaller trucking companies compete with big shippers.

An AI that helps businesses predict demand for their products before they’re even built.

This startup is building a platform to help companies find and vet talent. It’s based on “The Apprentice” format, where candidates are selected by a panel of experts and then compete in a series of challenges (e.g. an improv comedy show.)

The startup is building a marketplace for artisans to sell their goods online. The goal is to build out enough consumer demand to build out a sustainable model for farmers.

A machine-learning software solution to optimize customer experience by identifying and removing unproductive clicks.

A platform that plugs into Slack or HipChat to help employees stay up-to-date on what’s going on in different channels.

A company that wants to help businesses sell products on their own websites. The company has a white label solution that allows B2B companies to use their websites to sell to consumers.

A social enterprise that trains and provides jobs for refugees, and which also works to provide food and shelter to those displaced.

With this company’s “socially intelligent” inventory management system, manufacturers can better predict demand for their products in real time, and thus lower their costs. It integrates with factories’ inventory systems and takes orders and shipment predictions from social networks to figure out where to place a product’s next shipment.

A startup that allows people to make local videos, and then sell them to advertisers, essentially turning them into a YouTube-style video creator.

A startup that aims to make the process of building a home more efficient. It connects users with professional contractors and helps them find the best contractor for their needs.

A tool for online booking of flight, train and bus tickets in India, with a free mobile app.

Using AI to help companies identify and eliminate loan fraud and waste.

A mobile app that creates, share, and edit a variety of different categories, including photos, videos, and audio, in the cloud.

A personal care brand that’s starting to expand into other categories, including skincare, makeup, and haircare.

A home insurance startup that aims to provide better customer service and lower rates by acquiring less expensive medical data. The company also has a service where it can put together a customized health plan for you.

A platform to help small businesses grow by offering them a complete marketing suite in a single product.

A SaaS tool for hiring that helps companies sort through the vast array of online job boards and filter the good ones to find the right candidates.

A company that helps small businesses and companies of all sizes create “lean-forward” websites and apps. The company has a number of products aimed at helping this process, including an earlier app that lets you create templates and prototype a mobile app. This week they launched a new product called Twig, which is a platform that lets you create a prototype of your product in a matter of minutes.

A platform that enables customers to rate and review their favorite stores. The startup uses a crowdsourced model to encourage customer feedback and use it to guide the company’s product development.

A company that automates and improves the process for running a restaurant

A startup that helps developers build apps that can be shared, with a focus on grouping events together.

This is a company that helps landlords manage their rental properties. They have over 100,000 properties and expect to see revenue of $10 million in 2021.

The startup is building a new kind of mobile payments platform that aims to be the “Google of payments”. The company says they have more than 150,000 merchants on the platform.

A startup that’s building a personal assistant for people across the world, and has conducted interviews with over 100 individuals for the role. The company wants to build a team that’s available 24/7 in every part of the world.

A company that creates a “one-stop-shop” for the creation of custom apps for startups and software companies.

An AI chatbot which answers questions on Quora, a question and answer site. It’s still early days for Quora’s bot, which answers around 1,000 questions a day on topics like “How to study” and “How to organize your life”.

Building a point-of-sale system that integrates with bar-code scanners like those in grocery chains or self-checkout.

This startup is building a platform that allows students to collaborate on projects and write code across school systems, in the hopes of creating a more creative learning environment.

This startup wants to build a service that will help homeowners learn more about energy efficiency.

This is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide insights about people’s emotional states and wants to use the data it gathers to develop emotional intelligence-based services.

WeTransfer is a business that allows people to send and share files from anywhere in the world, for a fee. The company has over 100 million users.

The team behind @TOH, a restaurant recommendation app, is building a system to help restaurants track their food waste and find solutions to it.

A project management app for building better working relationships between departments.

A tool that helps consumers purchase and manage their credit data and manage their accounts. The app allows people to check their account balances, transfer money, and see all of their bills.

A “virtual assistant” for finding, hiring and managing restaurant staff.

A group of entrepreneurs and executives from large companies like Google, Amazon, and Walmart are working on a new startup called Kip, a platform for tech-enabled collaboration. The company’s goal is to help large companies share resources more effectively, and will launch in the fall of 2020 in the U.S.

A perk-based loyalty and rewards platform for merchants and brands

A startup for travelers to find the best hotels, restaurants and attractions for their trip.

An accelerator that provides investors with equity in early-stage startups. It lets them invest in startups without having to write a check.

A new way of building products that uses 3D printing to make them faster.

This company is building a file storage software for the cloud that is easier to use, more secure and more affordable than the competition.

A startup that offers one of the few ways to sell tickets to online conferences, and tickets to events in the past year, with a 2.8% take rate.

A startup for managing and sharing finances across teams. The startup helps teams like money managers and HR teams.

A company that provides a suite of products from a variety of companies that provide software-as-a-service. Currently, they have a suite of over 100 different products from over 70 different companies.

The startup behind Jobster, which helps employers and job seekers find each other, has been acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million

A cloud-based tool designed to help people manage their money more efficiently in ways that might not be obvious.

A marketer that offers a platform to connect brands with influencers, who can be paid to promote brands and products.

A company that helps companies create client-specific websites from templates and templates from different websites.

A startup that claims to be building a decentralized blockchain for the global insurance industry. The startup is building a global insurance blockchain to provide payment transparency and data sharing for insurance companies, which can verify and clear payments without the need for middlemen.

This startup is building a “connector” for B2B companies to get their voice and image out to the world and get their products and services in front of the right people.

A company that wants to help people create their own virtual reality worlds.

A digital freelance marketplace that helps small business owners find and pay their employees. The startup currently has over 1,000 small businesses on board and plans to add over 1,000 more in 2017.

This is a service that helps individuals track and manage their student debt. The startup helps people take action on their student loans, and offers the ability to pay off the debt with a monthly plan.

A startup to help customers buy and maintain cars in the US. The company’s investors include Google Ventures and the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

A social destination for food and drink recommendations.

Patagonia has been in the YC program since 2010. The company sells backpacks and other outdoor gear through retail and wholesale channels in the US and internationally.

A startup that helps users track their workouts and track their diets. It also offers an array of support services, from diet coaching to a personalized nutrition plan that provides users with advice

A startup that helps people set up a “social room” at their house for guests to hang out together, helping them save money and plan their social calendars.

An online nursery school for babies 0-12 months old, which offers classes in arts and crafts, cooking, and using a computer.

A startup working in the fintech space that wants to make it easier for businesses to categorize and label currencies, which many companies struggle to do because of the complexities of ISO 4217.

A product that helps brands increase their Instagram influence without paying for it.

A startup that wants to get other companies to adopt the practice of including one-year parking passes for employees in their office lease.

A way to organize shared teams, with shared calendars, instant messaging, and more.

A product for doctors to use in the exam room to help them understand what their patients need and how to provide it.

A mobile payments company that uses a combination of SMS and M2M to allow merchants to accept payments directly from their customers.

A startup that sells a set of “performance indicators” to help employees track their performance, and then match actions to those indicators.

A workflow tool for teams — helping to “increase the average person’s effectiveness by 20%,” in cofounder and CEO Russ Jones’ words.

A free service that helps entrepreneurs organize events and meetings

A software for giving doctors feedback on medical records.

A startup that’s building a “self-serve” payment system for restaurants. It’s a product of the food-tech world, with the goal of streamlining the process of paying for orders.

A platform for creating social connections around events, which is currently a popular form of entertainment. The startup wants to help users curate real-world events and build a community around them.

A tool for small- and medium-sized businesses to identify and correct errors in their invoices. It’s a simple, free tool for businesses to use.

The company is building a team of “airline experts” that are on hand to review airline policies and help customers understand them.

The startup is building a platform that allows people to aggregate some of the most popular content on the web and create original content that’s relevant to them. The content creator gets paid in cryptocurrency, and the tool allows users to filter content based on their interests.

The company is building a platform that helps people manage their health and wellbeing goals. It’s originally meant to help users track their health and weight.

A B2B company focused on helping retailers with supply chain logistics software.

An API and a mobile app for Paypal. The startup aims to let Paypal users create personal online banking accounts and hold them in one place.

A customer service employee, or “helper,” who’s also a part of the support team. The startup uses video chat to bring the experienced help desk agent to the customer’s side.

A company that wants to help underpaid fashion designers have control over their intellectual property.

An AI-driven tool for helping banks detect fraud and other financial crimes, and for the public sector to visualize and understand their finances and data.

A pitch for a health insurance platform that enables users to use a smartphone to view their health data, make payments, and receive regular communications from a doctor.

A startup that allows people to manage their own data while still using the cloud. It aims to help individuals manage their own data, while still using the cloud to store it.

The startup is creating a platform for individuals to buy and sell digital goods.

An IoT platform for tracking and managing the temperature and moisture levels in your home so you can manage heating and cooling costs.

A software company that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their expenses. The company currently has a deal with a large insurance company.

The company has a new product that lets small businesses use the same tools as larger companies to set up a storefront. The product is meant to be a more accessible alternative to the Shopify platform.

A solution to help clients manage all their data from one central location

A platform that links global banks, payment networks and businesses.

A group of friends launched a startup racing to build a go-anywhere, accessible, and affordable modular electric car. The car is a lightweight, urban electrical vehicle, with a range of about 500 miles, a top speed of about 70 mph, and a starting cost of $10,000.

A digital directory for buying and selling used cars. The company has a deal with dealerships, allowing them to sell their vehicles on the platform.

A mobile app that uses the phone’s accelerometer to detect whether a user is walking and provide immediate feedback on how to improve eating and exercise habits.

A company that wants to make it easy for people to set up and run their own ICOs. The company is currently only involved in the US for now, but they hope to hire more teams in India and the UK soon.

A way to send money to friends and family in India, via a bank account, without official documentation.

"Startups" writer Andrew Liptak wrote that "A startup that aims to stop the poaching of top talent by big companies.”

This startup is building a tool that can help you create a parkour map using a smartphone’s camera, then share that map on social media.

A startup that provides advice on how to ride a bike. The people behind the startup are veterans of the bike industry, and they want to move away from a background that is focused on the bike industry to one that is focused on consumers.

A startup that wants to bring self-driving delivery and home service robots to your home. It’s a simple 3-step process to get a robot to bring you a clean or cooked meal in under 30 minutes.

A tool that helps teachers and students create and share lesson plans.

A software company for managing health insurance. The startup wants to simplify the process of registering for health insurance so that the process is fast and hassle-free.

Maps.me is a mapping service that works offline

A tool that helps find the perfect fit for companies looking to hire.

A SaaS tool that makes it easy for businesses to manage their customer data, with an API and SDK that can be integrated into other apps.

A startup working on a mobile app for remote workers that lets them set their own schedules.

This startup is creating a network to help pharmacies communicate with patients in real-time.

A value-added reseller that helps small businesses with their marketing strategy. The startup aims to help small businesses that don’t have marketing budgets.

A company that builds tools for businesses to work with HR.

A solution for loans that are backed by corporate stocks, allowing their holders to be traded like stocks.

Idea: A B2B company that provides software to help freelancers and contractors in the US legally collect funds from employers.

A startup that helps brands find and connect with influencers on YouTube, Instagram, and other social networks

A startup that helps people in developing countries learn English online

A startup that helps you get your recycling sorted by country, weight, and type.

An enterprise-grade analytics solution for social networks that makes it easy for people to see what posts their friends are sharing on social media sites.

A “smart” hospital bed that monitors patients and adjusts the temperature in response to their health concerns. It also tracks their movements to prevent falls.

A company that thinks it has built the first “blockchain for capital markets.” The company is seeking to use its “collaborative and distributed ledger” to help investors make better investment decisions.

Bingo is a new way for people to watch live programming on their phones, without paying for a cable subscription. The app works with a subscription to the streaming service Hulu.

A digital platform for automated room service ordering in hotels. Users can order from a menu of the hotel’s dishes, and the order is sent to the kitchen directly. The startup is working with a dozen hotels in India.

A web-based platform that makes it easy to record and edit audio.

A standalone Chrome extension that helps people find the best local photo-sharing service, with a built-in map to help users discover new services.

A time management app that helps you prioritize tasks, prioritize projects, and stay on track.

A startup that is creating an app that allows people to identify and book haircuts, color treatments, and other hairstyling services in their home or office. The startup is also partnering with salons to offer financing options for salon services.

A digital marketing platform for small businesses. The startup’s product is an email automation platform that automates email marketing and A/B testing.

A mobile app that helps users avoid sales taxes when shopping online. Currently serving businesses in California and Texas.

Idea : A platform that helps companies arrange and book meetings with clients over the phone, in-person, or online.

A tool for tracking your fitness, with a fitness tracker that measures things like your heart rate and distance. The startup is working on a product called the

A company that makes an app that lets you order a real-time pickup of groceries from a local grocery store — for when you don’t have time to go out and pick up your food.

A startup that launched a few years back that provides remote workers with instant access to their team. It’s now in beta with a few Fortune 500 companies.

A platform for government to track and manage federal government contracts.

A startup that wants to help customers find the best Uber and Lyft drivers, by letting them track their trips and view ratings and details about their drivers. They’re currently testing with 10 cities in the US, and plan to expand to the UK in the future.

People are more attached to their smartphones than they used to be, and more than just a tool to check email and run errands. Now they have a way to make extra money while they’re on the go. Stocksy is a stock photography agency that licenses photos to brands and other companies.

A startup that lets people book restaurants online for days or weeks in advance.

A startup that helps exercise for runners by showing them the route from where they’re running to their destination.

A platform that helps organizations plan, take, and share notes on a computer running Linux. Comes with a desktop app and mobile app so you can do all your note-taking on the go.

A product that provides a service that helps hotels and other organizations create, manage and deliver a single, centralized event and event registration platform, with a focus on the hospitality industry.

The startup takes the same approach to building digital products as it does to physical products. They build with CAD software to create a 3D digital prototype to test out product concepts and validate that it works as expected.

A startup that allows companies to buy and sell social sharing ads, and track their performance.

A mirrorless camera and lens manufacturer that’s starting with a line of Sony-branded products that are designed to work with the company’s in-house SLR lens system.

A startup that’s helping small businesses in the US automate payroll and create financial reporting with minimal cost. The company is now focusing on being a one-stop shop for small businesses.

A startup that helps users sync their calendars and contacts in the cloud with their phones.

The idea is to be the Airbnb for airships and to make it easier for people to book and manage them.

A startup that enables businesses to create a custom work product for their employees. The company has only run early stage trials, but has already attracted more than $3 million in funding from investors like 500 Startups.

A startup that offers an app of more than $20 billion in ticket sales on the secondary market.

A design and data platform for the modern retail market. The startup has raised $11 million to date and has signed up 1,200 customers.

A software company that helps luxury estate agents work more efficiently by building a platform that tracks appointments and lets agents monitor and manage their jobs.

A startup that wants to be the most “reliable” and “secure” platform for the internet of things. BitClave’s platform is built on blockchain, and wants to be a way to trust the internet of things.

A platform, which provides a platform for the transportation industry.

An online registry for electric scooters and bike-sharing. The startup wants to make it easier for people to rent their scooters and bikes so they can easily hail them from other users in a city.

A tool that allows you to create a custom, color-coded portfolio, or “stack” of articles, products, etc. to show clients and investors.

A tool that helps teams manage their time, prioritize tasks, and coordinate across time zones.

A startup that wants to automate the intake process for new users in an app, removing the need for manual coding.

A platform for franchised restaurants to provide a dashboard of key performance indicators to their franchisees, which allows them to make better, more informed decisions.

A new way to book travel, with a single app that works across all of the major booking platforms. RedMart is building a collaborative travel app that encourages groups to book together at a lower cost.

A startup that wants to make it easy for social media marketers to target the real-life people closest to their customers.

A platform for managing your personal finances, combining features like bill-pay, savings, and investments, in one place.

A tool for people to develop, sell and deliver web content.

The e-commerce company wants to be the Amazon of the professional world.

An AI-powered messaging-based dating app that brings a human element back to online dating.

A startup that helps companies with product development in their local language “develop faster”.

Pitchbook, a media company that covers the venture industry, has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch. It includes several companies from the summer batch, including the following:

A startup that makes it easier to stay in touch with the people you want to stay in touch with. It aims to give you an easier way to share your location with people.

A company that provides consultant services to companies in need of help getting their employees trained on topics like cyber security or diversity.

A company that focuses on the needs of the global entertainment industry, by helping to manage the licensing process for music, films, and TV.

A real-time payments system that collects transactions as they occur in order to clear them instantly. The company launched in June.

A startup that helps customers track bills from the end of the month to the end of the year. It counts Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable among its customers.

A startup that works with real estate agents to help them become property managers. The company is growing quickly in the US, and aims to do the same in India.

Stories that are created by the community, then curated by a professional team.

A startup that wants to help colleges and universities adopt a more student-centered approach to their curriculum.

This startup wants to help employers manage their employee’s paychecks. The company wants to be the only way for companies to manage their employee’s paychecks in India, and is working with companies like DBS and Tata Communications.

A mobile app for travelers to find the best deals, based on location and price.

a startup that wants to help people understand how they are spending their money. The startup wants to provide an easy-to-use dashboard of monthly spending to help people decide where to cut back.

This is an online medical records platform for businesses and their employees.

The company's premise is to deliver a social network built around music, where users can interact with other artists. As it's a start-up, its scope is limited, but it's got a solid team of artists and managers backing it.

A video software company that lets users record and edit video in a web browser. The startup wants to make it easier to create and share videos without the hassle.

This is a startup that helps companies avoid “disaster on your plate” by helping them avoid fraudulent expense claims.

A messaging system for restaurants that allows hosts to manage reservations, ticket sales, and reservations.

A company that maps and tracks all your trips.

A startup that helps SMBs (small to medium sized businesses) through their supply chain by tracking products, manufacturing, and shipping.

This startup is building a tool that lets a user take photos, add lines, and then a designer can come in and polish the design.

A payroll company that wants to “make payroll simple”.

A way to easily translate whole works into different languages, allowing for more sharing and easier access.

A company that provides automated systems to finance investors in startups

“A startup for the exchange of surplus data between companies, where data producers can sell their data to the highest bidder.”

A software platform that allows small businesses to create branded chatbots. It’s an “app store for apps” that allows small businesses to create chatbots.

A startup that wants to sell high-end football jerseys for the NFL.

A platform for early stage companies that focuses on the content side of an entrepreneur’s portfolio

A text-to-speech service for the blind that uses the Amazon Echo to convert written words to audio. WordBlind uses a technology called "on-the-fly" speech synthesis to convert text to audio that sounds like the original.

This B2B startup is building a platform to make it easier for companies to collaborate with each other. It uses a cloud-based software that lets companies share data with each other.

The startup is building an on-demand remote delivery service for restaurant takeout and delivery orders.

A comprehensive technology solution that supports the delivery of video content, from broadcast to pre-recorded video to live event video. The startup provides production services, and is another YC alum.

Very interested to see what comes of this product - the idea is to give you a way to create a smart contract with a shipping company that automatically tracks your package from the time it is picked up to the time it is delivered.

A startup that helps chefs to manage the back-end of food delivery, including online ordering, inventory management and delivery scheduling.

A startup that helps people to design, build and test their prototypes online Users will be able to share their prototypes with friends or partners

A place to buy and sell unused books.

A startup that’s building virtual reality that encourages mindfulness.

A company that recently launched in India is building a platform to help medical practices connect with patients, and is aiming to move into the US next.

A startup that aims to build a database of every person in American history, a database that would someday have a search engine that could find out, for example, where a person’s great-great-great-great-grandfather was born.

A tool for sharing your portfolio of creative work with the world

The startup has built an app that uses the same camera and lighting effects found in Hollywood movies to make a video look like it was shot by a camera crew. The startup aims to make it easier for filmmakers to add these effects to their own footage.

A company that helps people organize the lessons they learn in the classroom.

GZ delivers gadgets, such as a $300 Apple TV, to customers’ homes and charges a convenience fee for delivery, which is cheaper than going to a brick-and-mortar store.

The BLS blog provides a daily newsletter, typically written by an economist, that summarizes recent changes in labor market conditions locally and nationally, and features summaries of research findings.

This startup is working on a toolkit for companies to build their own chatbots.

A software tool that helps companies manage expenses, track their spending, and make more money. The startup is looking to work with large corporations.

After launching in March, the startup has already signed up 7,000 customers (from only 5,000 in the past month). A customer can top up a phone to 100% in just a few minutes. The company charges 50 cents a day and $1 a month for unlimited recharges.

A platform that lets people take screenshots from their computer and quickly upload them to Slack.

An enterprise software platform that allows companies to aggregate their employee vacation and sick days into a single view, allowing them to put employees on leave at a moment’s notice.

A tool that helps contractors bid on jobs

This startup is building a social network for people in the legal industry. Its platform provides law firms with a way to communicate with clients and other law firms, as well as a way for clients to communicate with law firms about their cases.

A platform for helping the world’s unbanked and underbanked via mobile banking.

A startup for sharing college costs and financial aid with families. It’s a bit like Groove or Uloop but for parents.

A SaaS billing solution for vendors and partners, with a focus on recurring billing

A startup that sells a variety of cookbooks with recipes that are easy to make and also donates a portion of their proceeds to charity

A digital bank account app for Brazil.

A platform for building mobile games that lets you generate data for your game via crowd-sourcing.

A platform for student loans, with no upfront fees. They’re currently in talks with over 100 banks to make it available to their customers.

A startup that allows businesses, restaurants, and other organizations that have a point of sale system to accept payments with just a swipe of a card.

Notion is building a platform that allows medical devices to communicate with one another and make data transfer faster and cheaper.

A tool for managing the personas a company creates, the people that the brand is meant to appeal to, and how that audience interacts with the brand.

A company that helps people find the right healthcare provider when they need it, whether that's a doctor or a lab. Their product is a directory of doctors and their practices, with the ability to add doctors, review and edit information, and even schedule appointments.

A startup that allows brands to send weather reports to retailers for them to better plan their businesses.

A startup that’s building a service that allows employees to be paid without being on the payroll.

This startup says they’re building a Facebook-style news feed for people to read news stories. It’s a way to let news sources share stories without having to pay for a platform.

A travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.

A startup that aims to create a “digital neighborhood” for those interested in digital security

Trying to make the smart home as easy as possible for consumers.

A company that wants to be the fabric store for the home, allowing consumers to order custom-fitted clothing.

A platform that lets publishers create and sell custom content based on their subscribers’ interests.

A startup that sends out a drone to take photos and videos of a property to aid in its sale.

A startup that makes the process of creating a website super simple for newbies and professionals.

A tool to allow users to record voice memos, videos and photos inside the browser without plugins.

A front-end real-time interface for log management

A company that helps businesses build their own financial plans using a web-based platform.

This startup is building a platform for the fintech industry that aims to help banks manage their lending, investments, and risk. The platform was built to sit alongside the CapitalOne API.

A CRM that helps small businesses set up recurring revenue with tools for customer management, marketing, and sales. The startup wants to make it easy for small businesses to set up recurring revenue models, and charge customers monthly.

A startup that helps employers automate easy tasks like payroll, benefits, and benefits eligibility.

A way for people to search for parking spots and valet services with an app.

A startup that helps you track and locate your pet and provides a platform for fostering and adopting dogs and cats.

A company that helps companies keep track of their employees’ performance and how it compares to the company’s goals.

A startup that is creating a new kind of health plan, one that requires patients to take more responsibility for their health, such as being responsible for increasing their vitamin intake.

A higher-end version of the popular Always on, Always Connected (AoAC) earbuds.

A file storage service for people who need to store large amounts of data, including for human rights activists, journalists and whistleblowers.

Firms can collect data on their customers and then have that data sent to the cloud and analyzed for insights. The company currently has the same set-up as a consulting firm before being purchased by a larger firm.

An intuitive, desktop-based app that allows a restaurant to manage their menu items and ingredients. The startup gets data from local grocery stores, which it then uses to create an automated interface where a person can have a single, intuitive experience to search for a new dish at a restaurant using their phone.

A tool for building interactive maps, allowing users to organize things like sports teams, book clubs, and other social groups.

A startup that helps companies automate security. After logging into their system, users can create “scripts” that connect to their systems and tell them what they should be doing to keep them secure.

A platform intended to connect students and professors “across borders”.

A vision detection system to help blind people navigate their world.

The company has over 100,000 users who are saving over $100,000 every year.

A tool that helps athletes monitor and track their training with an app and wearables.

A program to help small startups with capital raise and growth

A standalone browser that integrates with the Slack team chat app. It allows users to create polls, polls that can be used in other Slack channels, and even polls that can be customized to display a specific emoji when they’re answered.

A startup that provides a gamified platform to help businesses understand and improve products and services to their customers. The startup sees itself as a kind of “Twilio for data”.

A company that creates and services custom “device-agnostic” software, building on the idea that most organizations don’t just have one, but many devices that need to be managed.

An “open source command-line tool for processing Kafka messages”.

A startup that makes it easy for people to learn how to fix things themselves

A platform for people to create artwork that gives back to the community.

A software company that creates software that helps companies adjust to the changing landscape of the workplace. They do this by working with companies to build out their hiring and retention strategies.

This startup offers a platform to help companies and organizations collaborate on content, from making public records to organizing conferences. Its founders describe it as a “LinkedIn for events”.

A startup that sells an “HDMI board” that sits on top of a television (or other display) and allows you to plug in a USB drive and use it to show content from a computer.

A startup that wants to take a person’s health, from a doctor’s perspective, and put it in a dashboard. It’s a “free radical”, a company in San Francisco, California, that wants to change the way the world thinks about health. It has a commercial in production with a director who’s won a couple of Oscars, and a book in development.

This startup aims to offer a place for women to share tips, tricks, and advice on how to be more effective.

A tool for companies to build product roadmaps. It’s currently being used by companies in the US.

Kava is building a tool for people who own coffee shops to pay their baristas via mobile payments.

A tool helps auto manufacturers create highly efficient car designs. It can review thousands of designs, pick out ones that are more efficient, and make suggestions to manufacturers to try.

Metronome is a plugin for Spotify that helps you navigate playlists better by highlighting the songs you haven’t heard yet.

A startup building a system that allows school districts to manage their student’s summer break. The system would integrate with school districts’ existing timekeeping systems and calendars, so that students can be allotted days off throughout the summer to spend with their families or with internships or jobs.

An API for crowdsourced product reviews, allowing brands to run their own polls and aggregate the data.

A solution to the issue of users who want to send money to people in developing countries, but don’t have access to phones or bank accounts. With PayM, you can send money to a mobile phone number in another country, with no fees or transaction fees.

A startup connecting people who need rentals with homeowners who want to rent out their homes. The company wants to allow renters to search for homes within a specific price range and go directly to the homeowner.

A company that sells real-time shopping with bots that respond to your questions through mobile chat.

A blockchain-based platform that lets people not only track their food and purchases, but also lets them tell the story of where their food came from.

This startup helps businesses find customers in the Philippines by allowing them to advertise products and services in the Philippines by word of mouth, in an effort to beat the competition.

A startup that’s building a unique product for the retail industry, an online marketplace for bringing in contractors to remodel your home or help you get around town.

A company that provides insurance to people who have been sexually harassed or assaulted by the people they work with. They are currently working with three clients, with plans to begin working with larger employers in early 2020.

A startup that uses AI and an artificial brain to analyze and predict what new products should be in the marketplace.

An education startup that’s trying to improve the way math is taught in U.S. schools.

A startup that lets independent creators on Amazon sell their own products Amazon already offers this feature to big businesses, but this startup lets individual sellers sell their own stuff

A startup that wants to help doctors and hospital staff manage their schedules and book appointments online.

A 24-hour customer service bot that's capable of making appointments, booking hotels, and purchasing airline tickets.

A web-based software to keep track of all your investments (stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, etc.).

A lighting company that aims to help people build a home interior that’s “as much art as it is décor.”

An online tool that helps users make money on their spare computer cycles.

An in-app survey tool that helps users of mobile games collect feedback on their game experience

An alerting service for people with disabilities, allowing them to choose the channels they want to receive alerts and receive tailored notifications.

"Discovery" magazine has included the Y Combinator companies in their list of the most innovative startups.

A startup looking to help small businesses in the Philippines get discounts on their utilities.

A company that tracks employee data and helps companies make the most of it.

A startup that helps developers work more effectively with their code. The startup’s technology is built to help developers more effectively work with their code.

A startup that uses a smartphone app to create a marketing database.

A tool that helps with all aspects of booking training and events. It helps you find venues, speakers, and attendees, and generates an end-to-end proposal for pricing and payment.

Building a tool that helps employees manage their work and personal time. It’s free to join and free to use.

A company that wants to provide tools and services aimed at helping retailers and their clients scale and grow.

A way for teams to organize and share knowledge.

A startup for book authors, publishers, and fans to help them get their books into libraries.

A startup that lets drivers park for free in one hour increments in a few thousand cities. Rather than having to go through the hassle of finding parking spots in a city, Uber drivers can simply show up at the area they want to park and get a pass.

A startup that wants to help small businesses grow by providing them with marketing resources, like a library of content, a database of business names, and an email database.

A startup that wants to help in-home care providers track patients’ needs, be it in the form of groceries or home medical equipment. The startup launched in Brazil, and plans to expand to other countries.

A software platform that connects large companies and insurance companies in an effort to lower insurance costs while increasing the number of companies with coverage.

A two-year-old startup that builds tools for the lucrative e-commerce market in China. The startup has a system that allows online shoppers to track orders, and has a team of about 20 full-time developers.

A company that helps payers manage their medical bills and avoid surprise medical costs. The company helps users get a full picture of their medical expenditures and spot trends.

Designing and building a new way for people to connect over virtual reality.

A platform for people to sell their old belongings on Craigslist. The startup wants to take the pain out of selling your things while also guaranteeing that they’ll show up at your doorstep.

The startup wants to build a smart little robot to help you get out of a chair.

A company that uses machine learning to aid the recruiting process by using visual cues to help recruiters spot people better suited for a particular role.

A startup that helps recruiters find candidates with the right experience and background.

A startup that wants to use AI to help you increase the value of your product photos. It wants to be a sort of digital gallery, with a tool to help you decide between multiple options for a given photo.

A startup that lets users create custom clip art, sharing it with friends and family via text or email.

A verification service for online purchases that’s meant to combat fraud.

A startup that produces renewable energy and products from biomass.

A team of educators who help you learn to code and make apps.

An online quiz that coaches people on how to fix common email issues, like how to read email on your phone

A startup that’s building a “social marketing” system, allowing brands to find people who are similar to their customers and get them to become fans.

This logistics startup is owned by Walmart.

A B2B product-development platform that allows companies to utilize the capabilities of their own internal developers.

Young people will be able to use blockchain to help them share data and communicate.

Placing an ad on an Uber driver’s dashboard that reminds him to pick up passengers.

A tool for generating custom, personalised, and branded video content.

A company that’s building software for advertising agencies, providing them with a “360-degree view” of the ad campaigns that companies are running. In other words, it’s a tool for ad agencies to see what Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter ads their clients are running in real time.

This company is helping people to give their money to the right charity. It uses an algorithm to evaluate charities to identify the best options, and has already donated over $1,000,000.

A company that helps companies create content marketing campaigns across all of their marketing channels — from email marketing to social media marketing to paid media.

A startup that provides a workflow for salespeople in the auto insurance industry, automating the process of filling out and uploading claims.

A startup that allows people to rent their homes to Airbnb hosts on a per-night basis, charging a fee to those hosts.

A platform that connects small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the digital marketing and adtech space to help them connect, learn, filter, and grow.

A software that automates the process of taking high-quality photos of products for online stores and catalogs

A startup that claims to be the first “Internet of Things” company that is also building a SaaS platform for developers.

A way to put online ads to use for data collection, using the content that people are most interested in to get them to do things on the web.

The startup’s goal is to help those who’ve lost their jobs to find new jobs. The startup aims to help employers and job seekers reconnect by giving people instant access to candidates.

A small wearable device that fits comfortably on your wrist. The company wants to build a health-tracking device that tracks your activity, sleep, and heart rate, and syncs with your phone to show you personalized stats.

A company that helps restaurants create menus, then helps them adopt a digital ordering system.

A “pay as you go” payment system for people with no credit history, to help them get ahead in their lives by buying goods and services on credit.

A product that helps small businesses create newsletters and marketing campaigns on their own and then find customers and investors. The company wants to allow businesses to reach customers and investors with email marketing, social media, and other digital media without having to hire a consultant or send out a large budget.

A platform that allows people to buy and sell goods and services online in exchange for cryptocurrency.

A platform that allows businesses to pay contractors and freelancers via mobile, not PayPal. The startup wants to make it easier to pay contractors and freelancers for work, and avoid the headaches of payment processing.

A startup for vintage clothes, with a focus on selling vintage clothes to customers who can’t find what they want in stores.

A company that helps companies hire and train in-person apprentices. The company works with a network of companies to match up novices and experienced businesses, creating a system of apprenticeships that lets companies save money and still have their hands on the newest tech.

A gamified platform for remote employees, enabling companies to manage their systems through gamification.

A self-driving car startup that builds its own hardware, to create a platform for car manufacturers to build autonomous cars.

Y Combinator alum. Placed first at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. It’s an online education platform for people who don’t have time to study, but still want to learn.

An online platform that helps individuals design and sell products made of wood.

A startup that’s creating an “of-the-moment coupon” marketplace. The startup wants to build a marketplace that allows users to buy and sell coupons that are valid for events happening that day, and then print them out at home.

A company that sells a system for autonomous vehicles to detect traffic and road hazards. The company is also building a self-driving car platform called Drive.AI

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to detect credit card fraud. The startup recently raised $1 million to begin working on its app.

“The last mile” of ride-hailing apps is the last mile to a person’s home. The startup wants to build an app that helps people find a driver to take them home.

This startup is building a “cross-border crypto bank” in which private banking is all done in crypto, but the banking infrastructure is still provided by traditional banks.

A company that helps managers and employees to communicate effectively. It’s a private messaging app with a long list of partners that is easy to use and lets people stay in touch with coworkers.

A machine learning platform that helps companies optimize the use of their assets. They’re in private beta.

A web-based, cloud-based app that helps organized people, called “Mavens”, manage their life, including shopping, to-do lists, etc.

A “machine-learning” startup that builds self-driving cars that can navigate in most environments and drive itself.

A SaaS platform that invests in e-commerce startups across Europe and the US.

A way to share and access health information, using the power of machine learning and natural language processing. The startup wants to build a way to use AI to analyze a doctor’s notes to understand their medical history.

Part of Y Combinator’s revised application process, revised from the one from the summer, includes a video introduction from the founders. Some of the founders have also been blogging about their experiences.

A hardware company that wants to build a hardware-based receipt printer that can produce receipts on demand. The company wants to use the same materials as the paper industry, which is more sustainable than inkjet.

A startup that lets people rent out their property, then send reminders and connect with interested tenants.

A subscription-based fitness tracker that tracks all-day activity, sleep and eating habits, and provides insights into health and fitness. The startup is backed by Y Combinator.

A startup that provides digital wallets for everyday purchases that work across different markets.

Many startups on the list came from India, a country that has been a "fintech powerhouse" in recent years. The country has a large population of engineers and a growing consumer base, and the availability of capital and technology has led to a boom in the number of startups in the country.

A startup that wants to make it easier for multi-location companies to run day-to-day business. They’re building on top of a tool that allows companies to aggregate and manage all their different accounts together.

A company that promises a 1% earnings yield on crypto investments.

A chatbot for your shopping list.

The startup is working on a credit risk prediction tool for banks to help them manage risk.

A software package that helps create threadless repairs for consumers.

A digital payment platform that allows consumers to pay with their accounts without ever entering a card number.

This startup is currently in a working prototype stage. It seeks to connect companies with licensing partners and business partners at all levels of the supply chain.

This is a platform for texting in Spanish, targeting the Latin America market. They’ve built an SMS-based platform where you can “send and receive SMS using the language of your choice”.

A tool to help you find the best developers for your new project.

A “new, modern approach to commerce” that aims to serve the needs of B2B companies by giving them a single, unified interface to manage all their sales and marketing. They’re focused on helping B2B companies improve their sales and marketing, and currently have clients in the financial services space.

A wearable device meant to help people with visual impairments navigate the world. The startup is looking to deploy its product in the US and UK, and has raised $2.5 million in seed funding so far.

This company builds apps for the Lockbox app, a lockbox service that lets people store valuables in a secure location.

A startup that helps people sell or donate their old phones to help fund their next phone. The company says that 80% of cell phones on the market are still in use, and that used phones are worth about $20 in the US. The startup connects with consumers on their cell phone, and ships them cash or an Amazon gift card to use.

A customer engagement platform that helps restaurants, banks, and other businesses engage with customers.

A startup that helps advertisers manage, monitor and analyze the return on investment for all of the advertising that a company does, using proprietary data sets.

A tool for hiring and managing staff for tech companies

A startup that wants to make it easier for new startups to get funded by providing an online platform for finding investors.

A digital assistant that helps real estate agents manage their book of business.

A digital fermentation starter kit, which allows users to test the effectiveness of their recipes before they make the leap to a commercial scale. The startup makes it so that anyone with a smart phone can take a picture of a recipe and instantly begin the fermentation process, allowing them to get the same results from their recipes without having to buy expensive equipment or deal with the hassle of an expensive commercial scale.

This pair of Latinx entrepreneurs wants to use data and analytics to help people who’ve been affected by incarceration make a successful transition back into society.

Insight is a “socially conscious marketplace”, with the goal of connecting people to good causes. Platforms include an online donation service, a marketplace where people can buy and sell things that help a cause, and a marketplace where people can communicate with the causes they support.

In the summer of 2016, Y Combinator opened a office in London to focus on Europe. The office is headed by Laura Simpson, who previously worked at eBay, and has joined the Y Combinator London team. Y Combinator London is focused on advising and investing in European startups and is led by Stephen O’Grady, who previously worked at Twitter, Google, and Yahoo.

CREDITS is a new way to manage all of your credentials, focused on the crypto-economy.

A location-based service for couples, with an idea that couples should be able to have a regular time to meet each other.

A platform that helps people with no credit understand how credit works.

A live-action game that lets users watch their characters interact with the real world and interact with others through the game

This one is a bit of a stretch, but

A startup that collects data from companies to help them figure out how to better retain their employees

A health insurance company that partners with companies to offer medical benefits to employees.

InMotion is a ridesharing app that uses a mobile app and a GPS to detect when someone is traveling and offer them a ride, with the driver not knowing who is requesting the ride.

A platform for getting deals from restaurants, bars and retailers. "Lucky" users can get deals from retailers and restaurants, from which they can redeem for a discount.

This is a tool that helps employees better manage their time by breaking it down into blocks of time, so they can better focus when they need to.

A mobile app that gives users the ability to pay for parking in advance.

A platform that allows for a more efficient and effective supply chain

This startup is building a way to find homes to rent on a per-minute basis for under $1 a minute.

The app helps businesses with their marketing needs. It aims to work with over 200,000 companies by the end of 2015.

An AI bot that helps writers write.

A tool for financial professionals, or portfolio managers, to create and manage investment portfolios. The startup offers a web-based, drag and drop interface to create portfolios.

Focused on improving the user experience of people who travel internationally. The company brings together a private messaging platform for travelers with a photo-sharing feature. The company is in the testing phase and will be available in the U.S. and Europe.

With this company’s “socially intelligent” inventory management system, manufacturers can better predict demand for their products in real time, and thus lower their costs. It integrates with factories’ inventory systems and takes orders and shipment predictions from social networks to figure out where to place a product’s next shipment.

A space for people to work and collaborate on projects, without the office.

A shared grocery shopping service that lets you buy items for someone else at a discount, with a promise of never having to run out of things again.

A mobile payment provider for restaurants, like Square, but for restaurants in the US and Canada.

The startup is building a platform for developers to create tools that help identify and prevent fraud for both consumers and businesses.

An advertising-focused startup that helps brands better target potential customers. It has raised $2.5 million in funding.

A startup that helps people decide whether they should buy more of their favorite products.

A decentralized open-source marketplace for the distribution of high-quality digital content.

An insurance company that aims to be the “Uber of insurance”, building a platform that connects people with services to help them navigate a system they feel is too complex.

A startup that provides remote workers with the tools to efficiently monitor, report, and communicate their team’s progress, with the goal of giving managers the ability to manage teams, with less need for face time. The company has raised $1.2 million in funding, and has customers in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

This is a website for buying and selling used computers. The website automatically searches for computers that are listed by sellers.

A business that’s building a “staging” system for retail stores. It’s a platform for stores to sell products on consignment and for customers to buy the products and then return them if it doesn’t fit their needs.

A platform for forging relationships between people and businesses through technology and entertainment events.

A tool that allows hotels to create custom lists of their guests for marketing.

A startup that wants to help workers find jobs using automation. It uses an algorithm to create a database of companies looking to hire and will then use that to match workers with jobs.

Very interested to see what comes of this product - the idea is to give you a way to create a smart contract with a shipping company that automatically tracks your package from the time it is picked up to the time it is delivered.

A “self-serve” platform that enables developers to build out their own bitmap font, so they can quickly build out a new font without needing to hire a designer.

A company that’s building a platform that handles all of a company’s customer service and HR needs for a monthly fee of a few dollars.

A company that helps hospitals and other medical facilities cut down on expensive paper records.

This startup is building a web/mobile platform that delivers personalized news about a person’s interests.

Helping companies find and hire the best crew for their projects, from the best electricians to the best drone pilots.

A food-delivery service that hopes to take on both the on-demand world and traditional restaurants.

A platform for doctors and medical professionals to collaborate on their own practice management and patient records.

A SaaS product that converts your world map into an interactive game.

A tool that helps users automate the process of cleaning the air in their homes. They’re already working with a Fortune 500 company to make their product available to their customer.

A platform for students to request tutoring, with the company taking a 20% cut from tutors’ earnings.

A tool for cutting together short, animated GIFs on Macs and PCs.

A startup that generates a custom color palette for a product

A platform that provides the tools for digital marketing agencies to do work for themselves. The startup has built a suite of tools to make it easy for digital agencies to create and manage digital campaigns for clients.

A tool that helps companies grow their sales and brand through social media.

An HR marketplace for freelancers, allowing them to be paid on a commission basis for booking new clients.

A startup that “makes it easy for people to invest in the stock market,” assisting “mutual funds, hedge funds and other investment firms to manage their clients’ portfolios.”

A startup that creates a personal library of books and audio files, and then creates a podcast about the book or audio that it is hosting.

A company that helps online retailers “persuade” a customer to buy from them instead of their competitors. It uses algorithms to determine where the customer is in the buying cycle, and tailors a message to the customer so that they’ll click through to their website.

A tool for merchants to better understand their customers and build out personalized loyalty programs based on their shopping behavior.

A company that provides a service that helps you find and sell your old books and other items online.

A startup that uses AI to help companies identify and eliminate wasteful expenses by learning from previous transactions.

A mobile app that uses machine learning to help people learn Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish. The company says that “Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin, and it’s the second most spoken language in America.”

The company’s first product is a tool

A simple way to visualize statistics and make them actionable.

A platform that helps big agencies and brands to get the best media deals at scale. The company is now only looking to work with publishers, content creators and agencies. It would give publishers more visibility into advertising deals in order to improve their sales and marketing strategies.

A platform for selling products online and on the go, including users who can’t access traditional ecommerce platforms.

A team of former HubSpot and Google employees have created a new startup called Binder that makes it easy for sales and marketing teams to collaborate with one another.

A company that allows people to create customized “banking services” for themselves, from getting their paychecks directly deposited to arranging overdraft protection or making payments online.

A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.

An ML-powered sales and marketing tool that helps companies connect with their customers.

This startup is building a platform for turning the data generated from social media posts into leads, and then pushing that data out to sales teams.

An iOS app for controlling a single Nest thermostat. It looks a lot like the Nest app, but it lets you set schedules and get notifications.

A company that promises a 1% earnings yield on crypto investments.

A platform that helps retail companies track and manage transactions in their stores and offices.

A tool to help teachers grade homework by grading it automatically, in real time.

A mobile app that tracks food and exercise, and allows users to share their data with others.

A startup that gives you information on the side effects of certain medications

A tool for identifying and preventing fraudulent donations to political campaigns.

A startup that wants to be the “Yelp for small businesses”, helping them connect to customers and other local businesses in their area, and help them grow and engage with their customers. Currently has $100,000 in seed funding.

A platform for hiring experienced contractors to do IT and engineering jobs in the US, with a focus on higher education

A startup that makes a “human-powered robot” that helps companies track their employees’ movements

A software-as-a-service business which automates the process of helping human resources departments create, manage, and track benefits.

The app allows people to pay off their student loans with a 25% monthly discount, which they say can be used for a wide range of things.

A startup that helps companies make their resources more efficient. A company that helps businesses automate their business processes.

A system for managing supply chain operations. These systems are often too expensive for small businesses to afford, and IAC is aiming to make it affordable.

A startup that makes it easier for people to find out if a product is vegan, gluten free, etc

The startup helps small businesses automate marketing, by sending out daily messages about sales, discounts and promotions.

The startup is working on an e-commerce platform that integrates with Amazon to sell third party brands.

Senses , a service that turns your smartphone into a personal assistant, is being developed by a team of veterans of Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, as well as a company that sold the Siri app to Apple.

A collaboration platform based on Slack and messaging, but with real-time polls and tasks, and the ability to set deadlines and budgets.

The startup is building a marketplace for social and environmental benefits that companies can offer to their customers. The idea is that companies can leverage these “social benefits” to boost the loyalty of customers who want to do the right thing.

A venture-backed startup that’s building an app for iOS that allows you to flip your phone’s screen horizontally and vertically to share photos.

A platform for businesses to sell and share content that’s been prepared for a conference or event. The startup focuses on the event marketing, rather than sales, side of events.

A "small business marketplace" that helps small businesses sell to consumers through a web and app interface.

A company that aims to bring employees and freelancers together for projects, via a platform known as the "Freelancer's Network".

This startup is building a system that helps companies recruit and retain high quality talent. With a $100,000 investment from Andreessen Horowitz, the company is working with companies like Hubspot, Zendesk, and The New York Times to do so.

An on-demand e-commerce platform for retail and wholesale customers (e.g. restaurants, bars, and importers/exporters).

A startup that builds value-added solutions for the e-commerce industry, helping online retailers optimize customer experience and build better sales.

An online book-buying service that manages to sell books at a 25% discount, then refunds money to customers if the book doesn’t arrive on time.

Zapier wants to help small businesses automate physical tasks using web tools. It’s currently in private beta with a few thousand users, and the startup is seeking to raise funding to grow it.

A company that helps companies and nonprofits raise money by letting people donate to causes they care about through the app.

A platform that lets home buyers and sellers trade home inspections.

A data visualization platform that helps channel partners and advertisers learn about TV viewing habits, ultimately helping them determine the best times to advertise.

A new startup that wants to help small businesses and restaurants keep track of their inventory, and the cost of their items.

A startup that helps homeowners sell their homes and receive full-market value for them.

Founders: Marta, Ryan. The two want to build a tech hub for the Latin American startup community. They want to give startups discounted office space, mentorship, and access to capital.

This San Francisco-based startup is building a platform for businesses to manage the entire range of legal and regulatory compliance tasks.

A company that makes the world’s first smart fabric for outdoor clothes.

The startup is building a service that helps retailers find their locations, manage them, and track deliveries.

A company that provides a platform that connects physical retail locations and other businesses like cashiers, janitors, and other support staff.

A digital marketing agency that wants to solve the problem of customer retention.

A fun app for finding the cheapest car rental when traveling abroad.

A chatbot that takes a text message and pulls up the relevant information

A way to manage referrals in a B2B marketing context

A company that wants to make the world’s largest database of solar data. The company says it has built a platform that helps companies like Google and Amazon make billions of dollars in sales from solar power.

A software company that helps airlines and airports better recover and reuse fuel and avionics.

A consumer-facing startup that’s looking to create a marketplace for grocery store brands.

A startup that helps businesses that make a lot of money on Etsy — but that don’t have the time to manage their product listings.

A company that helps travelers book their hotel stays. The startup is based in the UK, but has an office in Chicago.

A self-serve platform for scheduling dental appointments across the country.

A financial management tool for small businesses, pitched as a solution to the “$1 trillion dollar problem” of managing small business finances.

A software platform that broadcasts live video over all kinds of networks, and enables “interactive” on-demand video.

It’s a way of buying and selling that alternatives have failed to match: a company that is fully transparent about its workings, based on the idea that you should always be paid what you’re worth.

Acquire new customers and have them refer your business to their friends.

You want to find someone to build you a website, but “the whole process of finding someone to build a website is so cumbersome”. You want to do the hiring, but you’re not a developer and you’re not a designer, so you need a tool that gives you a few options for each step. That’s what the startup is building.

A company that makes augmented reality glasses for Google Glass

A new twist on the “impulse” product. The startup is developing a way for brands to send their customers impulse-buy items, which usually require some sort of sign-up.

A startup that provides a way for tech companies to manage their digital marketing as one source for all their marketing needs.

A startup working to help recruiters and HR managers connect with potential hires, avoiding data silos and the time it takes to search for the exact candidate. They’re working in the US, the UK, Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand, with plans to expand to Canada and the Philippines in 2020.

A start up that’s building a system for crowd-funding that doesn’t require a credit card.

A startup that helps online publishers generate revenue by allowing them to create targeted ads based on the content they are reading

A digital tool for borrowing money from friends and family for small business purchases. The current model is still simple: the startup is working to launch an app that lets you borrow money in seconds from your friends and family. The company has raised a seed round, and is launching today

A platform for recruiters, with a focus on tech companies.

A startup that allows people to request a ride with a driver, and then pay for it with a single tap of their phone.

A platform for food safety and quality control, building a “food stamp for restaurants”

A tool for streamlining the entire social security process, with an app that allows you to give money to a friend or relative as a gift, automatically.

A startup that wants to create an online marketplace for fitness that will allow users to buy and sell workouts, including in-person ones.

A startup that uses AI to analyze existing video footage to detect intent, location, and movement.

A chatbot that connects you with friends, family, and colleagues when you’re in the hospital.

A Y Combinator company that helps entrepreneurs build their business with video.

A startup that makes an app for ordering and picking up food at restaurants

A startup that builds a machine learning platform to help companies recruit workers in order to help them get through their recruitment process faster.

A home-based career coaching system for women. The startup is currently in the testing stage, and plans to launch in the New York City area.

A way to monetize and organize digital content. With StoryIt, you can create and manage reading lists, track which books you’ve read and where you got them, and mark books as “read” or “currently reading”.

A platform for connecting OOH companies (such as billboards, bus shelters, and posters), with advertisers.

A tool for invoice verification for subscription services.

A self-service platform that aims to help businesses negotiate insurance costs.

A startup that wants to help avoid medical bills by selling insurance for emergency services, for which it charges a premium.

A startup that helps its users take advantage of split-work hours that their employers or school offer

A San Francisco-based startup that offers a platform to build games with other companies.

A startup that helps people find and book flights around the world. "We're not trying to be a travel booking site but more a package." The platform lets users see prices and deals from a variety of airlines, which is useful for travelers.

A software platform that broadcasts live video over all kinds of networks, and enables “interactive” on-demand video.

A startup that provides a service to help people organize and repair their garage

A system that can provide a refund or credit to a customer for services not rendered by their doctor.

A cloud-based ERP that helps shed light on a business’s financials and keep control of its cash flow.

A mobile app that helps make better coffee. It’s a big problem, which is why the startup has already raised $5 million to date from investors including Andreessen Horowitz.

A startup that’s building a self-checkout system for grocery stores. The company says that they’re already working with over 20 grocery chains.

A “skin care brand for women of color”, built for the black community. The startup is a 50/50 partnership between two black women in Silicon Valley and a black woman in South Africa.

Notify is a data entry platform used by companies like Facebook, Slack, and Etsy. The startup is building an email-based alternative, so companies don’t have to rely on their help desk.

This startup is building a product that allows users to quickly take a picture of their physical location and then instantly create a Google map of that location, allowing for quick and easy sharing of that location with others.

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

A startup that’s building a marketplace where companies can offer to do tasks on demand. The startup wants to replace the process of asking people to perform menial tasks with tasks that can be automated.

A smartphone-based contact management app, offering a built-in phone book, calendar, and a way to manage contacts.

A company that helps restaurants and retailers maximize their profits with a payments and marketing platform.

Realeyes is an AI that can read printed text and translate it into a form of sign language. The startup wants to use it to help the blind and hearing-impaired interact with TVs, smartphones, and other devices.

A platform that provides a way to record and monetize video of real estate transactions. The startup wants to build a platform that helps home buyers get a better deal by having a video of their property recorded by a professional videographer.

A tool for helping retail brands track their brand’s data, including how their products are selling on social media.

A student who wants to learn a new language can have his or her native speaker record a video of the learner speaking with their lips moving.

A company that’s building a platform to help tenants and landlords in the US remotely manage properties, including maintenance and repair services, through a web app.

Online brokerage which helps consumers better understand their investment products and gives them access to a licensed broker.

NextGenDNN is building a platform that allows enterprise-level businesses to deploy their own custom machine learning models on Azure.

A mobile phone app that helps you set up a gifting experience with friends on Facebook. It’s not clear if this is a new feature or a monetization play.

A startup for finding and scheduling contractors.

An employee scheduling tool for small businesses and freelancers.

A B2B startup that aims to provide a B2B version of Slack, which would allow companies to create channels for everything from HR to marketing. The startup is currently only in the pilot stage.

A company that’s building a blockchain-based alternative to the healthcare industry’s online health records.

A platform for job seekers to search for jobs using data from LinkedIn

A software company that uses AI to reduce the manual work involved in filling out education forms for student loans.

A company that lets you automate your CRM and take advantage of Salesforce's tools by building a custom CRM solution that is integrated into Salesforce.

The app is meant to help people find their new friends and live their lives better.

This is a tool for developers that makes it easier to “deploy a single application to all of your connected devices”.

An AI to help doctors and other care providers (like nurses and first responders) make quicker and more correct diagnoses and provide more appropriate care.

A startup that tracks employee spending for employers with centralized inboxes.

A startup that hopes to replace the need for human financial advisors with an AI-powered automated wealth manager.

A social enterprise that provides equipment and support to the developing world for the production of sustainable, high-quality, locally-sourced products.

A mobile app that lets anyone access and manage their data without having to pay for a third-party service.

A two-sided marketplace for peer-to-peer loans

A way for the most recent version of documents in a company to be accessible via the web instead of email.

A tool to help you do a better job of selling. You can either search for people to sell to, or build a list of your own contacts. The company charges $3 per lead, $10 per contact, and $10 per sale.

A company that helps retailers, manufacturers and distributors run promotions that are tailored to the specific needs of their customers, with the goal of increasing the lifetime value of customers.

A startup that makes it easier for people to work from a co-working space

A banking app for the unbanked in India

This app helps you find the best parking spot in New York City.

A tool that helps companies manage seasonal marketing campaigns so they can get the best ads at the right time.

A platform for employees to communicate with each other, share files, and review client work. The company uses Slack as a communications platform, and has raised $1.5 million in funding to date.

A partnership between the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to educate and promote conservation of marine life through the sale of marine fish.

A tool for creating and testing chatbots, and an SDK for building chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack and Kik

Mint.com is a startup that takes a fee for credit monitoring for their customers.

A startup that helps schools and universities establish open data programs to promote transparency and accountability.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to have a “digital safe word”, allowing them to call out a word that can be checked against a database of words and actions to see if they’re safe to proceed.

This company is making it easier for people to create a cloud-based office that automatically syncs with their phone, computer, and other devices.

An open source digital wallet for fiat currencies.

This is a toolkit for healthcare organizations to manage their operations, like billing, all from one location.

A management app for companies to manage their employee work schedules. Allows employees to request their time off, add temporary staff, and see when they will be next needed.

This startup wants to make a digital health platform for people to manage their symptoms, and make better decisions on their health.

A developer of software that teaches programmers how to be better at data visualization, developing and releasing new courses in the field.

A company that is building an HR platform that connects employers and workers to make the hiring and onboarding process smoother and less error-prone.

A startup that is building a platform to help musicians increase their social media following

A startup that’s building a product to help people meet and collaborate with like-minded people in their area.

An “Ask-a-Vet” app that directs users to the nearest vet, and is backed by PetMed Express, a pet supply retailer.

A B2B data analytics platform for financial services companies, most importantly banks. The company was founded in 2016 and has raised $3.7M.

A startup for buying and selling used cars. Instead of a dealership, the business connects buyers with sellers. The startup wants to make vehicle buying easier, with an app that helps streamline the process.

The company is building a platform for trying out new music, allowing users to listen to new songs for free before paying for them.

A platform that helps you find the best sex partner based on your personality, sexual habits and proclivities.

Periscope is a video hosting platform, popular with people who want to broadcast a live video stream from an iOS device. They launched in July and have been growing quickly, hosting over 20 million videos to date.

A startup founded by several ex-Adobe employees to develop a creative suite for mobile and tablet devices. It has raised $26 million in funding.

A startup that aims to make text-based communication more convenient, accessible, and usable for the elderly population.

A startup that builds on the idea of “loyalty as currency”, where they reward users with points and coupons for their loyalty.

A “transaction-based” social network, where people can follow others and interact with them through messages. The startup has already signed up 500 users in the US and has plans to expand internationally in the coming months.

A payment system for your subscription to a streaming service. They charge the same amount every month but are reimbursed for specific services based on how much content you watch.

P2P lending is the new frontier for startups, with this one looking to build a P2P borrowing platform.

A desktop-based platform for visualizing data science models.

A startup that’s building a tool that automatically designs and builds ecommerce stores for you

A startup that enables users to create a story about a short trip online, using photos and maps. The app has been in beta for two years now, and has over a million photos and videos.

A landing page builder for agencies, which means that if you’re an agency, you can build your own landing page, or build a landing page for a client.

Indeed.com launched in 2003, but has since grown into a market leader. Indeed.com has also been acquired by The Walt Disney Company in December 2018.

A platform that allows doctors to upload and view patient records from their computer.

A startup that helps restaurants with digital marketing and sales, including analytics, web and social tools, and systems for scheduling.

A system that provides investors with a pipeline of startups being developed by a team of engineers in a private community. Investors can then get news about new startups, early access to the resulting product, and they can build their portfolio of seed-stage companies.

A company that wants to streamline the hiring process for employers, letting them post jobs and give applicants a chance to respond. It’s been used by companies like Lyft and Warby Parker.

A platform that makes it quick and easy for anyone to start a crowdfunding campaign.

A startup that helps people build virtual reality experiences and help create immersive experiences for brands. Notable for its location-based VR hardware for gaming and entertainment, the company is building a virtual reality platform for malls and shopping centers.

A platform for video creators to sell their merchandise and other products on their channels.

The startup helps data scientists and engineers build more robust models from data. The company’s users include clients like Netflix and Amazon.

A mobile app that lets you order and pay for your meal easily by tapping where you’re sitting in the restaurant. It’s in its first beta test, and is looking to build the startup into a national brand.

A company that has created “a new kind of three-dimensional virtual reality”

A financial service for freelancers, contractors and agencies. The service helps freelancers and agencies with payroll.

A company whose software can help people buy and sell used cars.

A tool that connects employers to workers who can perform tasks

A startup that wants to replace the likes of Care.com and Thumbtack by empowering someone to hire and manage their own personal assistant.

A startup that helps you find free and cheap parking in NYC, Baltimore and Los Angeles. It’s already live in NYC, and will expand to LA and Baltimore in the coming months.

A B2B SaaS startup that provides businesses with a single platform that helps them create and manage their customer communities (similar to Slack, but for customer service)

A Y Combinator alum, this startup wants to help online retail stores sell physical products.

Build a better bike that people can sit on.

A startup for teachers and parents to create an after-school program that takes place during the school day and aims to save money on travel and out-of-school costs.

A software company that helps users find a product or service for their specific needs. Based on the number of users it has, it’s looking to raise a round in the second half of 2019.

A platform that helps companies and brands launch their own store on Amazon.com. The startup is already operating the first store, The Real, which sells apparel and jewelry.

A web-based platform that helps automate tasks for the e-commerce business, such as setting up a new website, or a new email campaign.

Y Combinator alum. Placed first at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. It’s an online education platform for people who don’t have time to study, but still want to learn.

The startup wants to provide a tool to help people find new friends based on their location and interests. The startup is launching in the UK in Q3 2019.

The company aims to change the way people shop, by giving them a way to scan items and get product recommendations based on their preferences, similar to the way Amazon recommends products to you.

A software company that offers a way to create a pitch deck from PowerPoint slides and a catalog of images, videos and data.

A startup that wants to bring Bitcoin ATMs to society, and is working on a standalone card for the space.

A company that wants to build a way to understand the meaning of phone calls (through audio) and help courts make educated decisions on them.

Not all of these companies are live, but they’re the most notable of Y Combinator’s startups.

A self-driving Uber for trucking companies.

is a company that helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) connect with a wider set of potential customers. The SMEs gain access to a wider range of potential customers, including business professionals, which helps them build up their customer base.

The following startups have been accepted to the 10th batch:

This startup aims to help companies in the legal space, including startups and other legal startups, to centralize their legal documents and data, manage them all in one place, and get them in front of a lawyer for a consult when needed.

A collaboration platform that allows business teams to get tasks done more quickly. It helps companies avoid the problem of having a bunch of separate systems that need to work together.

A platform for online video production that allows users to add audio, video, and text to their videos.

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a professional organizer to come to your house and organize it

Founders of this two-person startup are the former founders of the startup that made the popular budgeting app Due.

A platform to help retailers sell their products. The startup recently launched a “marketplace” where it displays products from different retailers that it has teamed up with on a branded storefront.

A cloud-based tool for sales teams to manage their campaigns and follow-up tasks. What’s unusual is that it’s cross-platform, available on desktop, mobile, and web.

Opendoor is a software company that wants to become the Amazon of home rentals. The company acts as a broker between homeowners and short-term renters. It’s made several large investments in recent years, including $117 million in new capital in November 2018.

A startup that is working to make it easier to create a credit score based on your spending habits rather than your financial history.

A platform for travel and wellness.

This startup wants to help developers focus more on their code by providing them with a design, development, and testing resource.

A digital concierge for hotels that can help and recommend things to do and see, with a platform that will help you compare your hotel’s services to other properties.

A startup that collects data from social media networks and aggregates them into daily reports that can be used to measure the human conversation that happens on the internet.

A startup that takes your photo and turns it into a 3D model. The app lets you print it into a model that you can then take on a journey.

Allows influencers to link to their blog content on various social media sites. Users can also follow influencers and “favorite” their posts, which are then pushed to their feeds.

A “simple, secure, and non-invasive way to deliver health care”, including an in-home device to monitor sleep and wakefulness, a wearable device to track activity, and a connected thermometer.

A web-based platform that helps automate tasks for the e-commerce business, such as setting up a new website, or a new email campaign.

Cultural accelerator startup: A startup that pairs companies with investors to help bring their products to the global market.

A platform that helps users track their food intake and their progress toward active lifestyle goals.

A startup that helps businesses that make a lot of money on Etsy — but that don’t have the time to manage their product listings.

A widget that helps you save money on your phone bill by automatically charging your phone only when you’re near a Wi-Fi network.

A tool for sharing your resume, for when the website doesn’t have the ability to do so.

A startup that wants to create a “socially responsible” bank account for people who want to support causes they care about.

A food delivery service for home chefs. The startup aims to make food delivery from home as easy as ordering pizza from Domino's in the US.

A startup that makes it easier to shop on and off-line, launching in July 2019 in the UK.

This is a platform that allows brands to see how their customers compare to their competitors.

A platform which aims to cut the cost of organizing and managing events by making it easy to book riders and vendors, and to collect payments.

A startup that helps small businesses in India build their websites, they were bootstrapped with seed funding from Y Combinator.

A platform for collecting feedback from students and faculty.

A point-of-sale application for restaurants, allowing them to accept payments online and mobile.

A tool that helps global teams collaborate and manage projects online.

Building a marketplace for tech companies that allows them to sell to startups and small businesses in the US.

A tool for managing a company’s fleet of self-driving cars. The startup is building a system for letting a driver take control of a car during a traffic jam, or for when a driver wants to take a longer break.

A local grocery store that lets you order and pay for groceries remotely. The startup has raised $1.6 million.

A startup that works with restaurants to provide them with the tools they need to “self-serve” their customers. The startup wants to make it easier and more profitable for restaurants to provide meal delivery.

An online directory of local hairstyling and beauty products.

A mobile app that allows users to easily send and receive money. The startup was founded in July and is focused on working with local banks in the US. It aims to get users to use the app to send money directly to their local bank accounts or other people’s bank accounts.

A notification app for your phone that gives you a couple of seconds to not answer calls and texts while it pulls up the phone's number details.

Software that helps game developers get their game ideas off the ground.

Loft, a startup that collects and compiles a range of industry data about startups, has named YC as one of the top three organizations in the world that are "helping to produce the next generation of startups."

A company that helps people pack their own medical supplies in order to save money.

A company that wants to build a tool for automating retargeting campaigns on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

A game a la “Whack-a-mole” that’s designed to help people get out of their own way. It’s designed to help people get past their own limitations to help them focus on the things that matter most in their lives.

A “cooler than a fridge” that stores food for 24 hours and uses a combination of temperature, humidity, and time to maintain food quality.

A startup that helps students of any age who are having difficulty in school to get tutoring

A digital platform to help with bank-to-bank money transfers.

An online marketplace for people to list real estate in their homes for sale or rent.

A 3D scanner that can identify and label objects in 3D space.

A tool for booking and tracking events such as English classes, chef’s classes, and yoga classes.

This startup is looking to augment the popular “find a mentor” model in the startup world with a program that will help people find mentors in their local area as well as people who have a history of mentoring other people.

A flight search tool that works with your phone's GPS and not just flight information from the airlines.

A mobile payments company that uses a combination of SMS and M2M to allow merchants to accept payments directly from their customers.

A company that helps employees and businesses connect their payroll systems through a common API.

A startup that helps people track their workouts and plan healthy meals. The startup is focused on helping people who are healthy and want to keep it that way, and the company says that because the company’s algorithms are based on historical exercise data, it’s able to identify trends that are more accurate than what a person might individually determine for themselves.

A startup that helps companies find investment opportunities in the public markets in developing countries.

A startup that helps businesses find the right people for their jobs. The startup is currently focused on helping recruiters to find C-level talent but says it’s not exclusive to them, and has a broader mission to help businesses find the right people for their job via its platform.

A text-based game that turns education into a game and game into a tool. The startup wants to improve learning outcomes and make it more fun.

A startup that lets you put your phone number on a business card and connect with friends, family, and colleagues. The founders of this startup say they’re selling a lot of business cards, with over 1,200 cards shipped in 24 hours and a $1,500 monthly recurring revenue.

As part of the Make Tech Easier project, the team is building a tool to help non-tech folks make tech purchases. They have a custom loyalty card that helps users identify the problem they want to solve, then build a purchase workflow. The startup now has $6,000 in monthly recurring revenue after just a year in business.

This is a toolset that makes it easy to integrate artificial intelligence into customer service interactions. They’re close to launching and have raised $12k in seed funding.

A private land registry, which they say is more accurate and cheaper than the public system. They plan to build the registry using blockchain technology.

A startup that offers a platform for entrepreneurs to grow their online presence with social media, email, and live chats.

A platform for online book clubs - like the ones you can create on Facebook or Twitter - that can be used to organize offline book clubs.

A company that aims to be a “Netflix of weed”, providing a platform for legal cannabis deliveries.

A startup working to make it possible for everyone to consume a beef jerky product from the comfort of their own home.

A startup co-founded by a former Googler, Qwant is trying to recreate some of the magic of the Google search results page with a new, more visual UI. The startup is trying to compete with Google for the European market.

Chargeback is an online platform that helps users dispute utility bills. It’s a B2B startup catering to utility companies. The founders hope to build a worldwide network of users.

A digital marketing platform for small businesses, pitched as a toolset to help companies reach their customers.

A tool that connects employers to workers who can perform tasks

A company making a “smart” dryer, with an internet-connected app that helps users set the temperature on their washing machine and adjust the duration of the dryer cycle.

An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.

A company focused on the web and mobile performance, making the world’s largest distributed network for web and mobile services.

This is a startup that helps people stream their live video to apps like Facebook and Periscope.

A startup that helps small businesses use their phone to do basic accounting. The company is working with complex micro-payments, inventory management, order-taking, and invoicing.

A platform that helps couples plan the next 10 years of their lives together.

A company that “creates impactful digital experiences for brands”. They want to do this by using AI and machine learning to build personalized experiences for users.

A tool that helps students plan their courses and track their progress, with a focus on younger students.

A platform for managing sales of services, products, and content across websites.

What it is: A chatbot that lets people find and hire freelance specialists. The platform aims to work with a wide variety of professionals, including interior designers, virtual assistants, and even personal trainers.

A software company that provides a cloud-based platform for managing online payments for Indian businesses.

A product that teaches people how to pair wine with food and make cocktails.

Idea: This startup is building a product that helps people find the best time of the day to do some of their most important tasks

A business that helps companies sell and buy tickets to events.

A group of photographers who create a “worldwide portfolio of travel images”, focusing on “underrepresented cultures”.

Idea: A software company that helps people with disabilities create profiles online and apply for jobs The startup seeks to help people with disabilities find work and give them the tools to make themselves employable

A game where you play a healer and have to heal your friends from the shadow that is chasing them

A fintech for loans in Kenya, which is working on a product for the first time.

A platform that helps small business owners in India use their app to accept payments, and enables customers to pay with a couple of taps.

A startup that provides credit to college students based on their predictive ability of their future grades

A digital platform for the organic food industry to sell directly to customers, with its current focus on e-commerce fulfillment. The founders envision a future where they can send one of the world’s most trusted brands of food directly to your doorstep.

Idea: This startup wants to make it easier for people to get matched up with local experts like doctors or lawyers. It currently has 2,200 experts signed up, and is charging $45/hr for up to five hours of work.

A platform for building custom business applications that runs on the Salesforce platform.

An artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that helps brands find the most relevant influencers to engage with and buy from.

A new kind of Airbnb for flower deliveries. The company hopes to have 10,000 commercial partners by the end of the year.

A platform to help women in the US manage their menstrual cycles more efficiently

A startup that provides a service to help people create a bucket list of things they want to accomplish

Using the security of its mobile app, Zipwhip enables merchants to offer better credit options for customers.

A comic book subscription box that sends customers a new comic each month.

A Slack-like tool for managing employee time, with automatic notifications and the ability to block time off. Only available on Slack.

This startup is founded by former Google employees and aims to be the “Uber of recruiting”, allowing companies to list their job openings for remote employees.

A new kind of financial reporting system that helps businesses understand the role of their cash.

The startup wants to build a marketplace that connects brands and consumers based on what they want and need. They’re thinking of it as a sort of Amazon for branded products.

This startup, which launched in May, is building a tool that allows people to take on the role of a travel agent by offering to book their trips online.

This startup is building a service that helps companies manage their employee benefit programs with a single platform, and will take a slice of the companies’ profits to pay for the service.

A platform that allows people to test out and share their own designs, called Viva Labs. The startup calls it “Uber for manufacturing” and is already helping people test their ideas out at the Maker Fair in New York City.

A community-based streaming platform that allows users to host live events from their homes that you can view from the website or mobile app.

A tool for home-based business owners to manage all aspects of their online presence, such as: online stores, social media, advertising, marketing, and more.

A tool to help teachers grade homework by grading it automatically, in real time.

An enterprise SaaS business that collects data on where companies spend money and what they buy.

In January 2018, Instagram launched IGTV, an app designed to let people watch longer videos.

A company that creates a suite of applications for small businesses to automate tasks and shave time off their work week.

A tool for recruiters, that lets them upload their resume to a centralized network and have it automatically filtered to candidates that are a good match for a given job.

A startup that helps people find the best prices for flights, hotels, and car rentals while also providing a platform for them to post reviews and ratings and get rewarded for their patronage.

A startup that creates a new way of selling homes by allowing people to list their homes online, provide a video tour, and get a full-price offer from a buyer before they move. Currently operating in the UK.

A company helping small businesses in India, mainly restaurants and food trucks, find more customers through SMS.

A B2B company that helps companies track their shipments, keep an eye on their inventory, and switch out products with ease.

A platform that lets people shop for health insurance without worrying about whether they’ll sign up for the coverage they want.

A tool to help employees collaborate on projects efficiently, which includes an email platform, file sharing, and task management.

A machine learning platform that helps companies make more accurate predictions about when they’ll run out of inventory. The startup is looking to build a “data factory” to make its predictions more accurate.

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered chatbot that allows your Facebook friends to talk to your bot for all the things.

A video conferencing app that uses Google Maps for navigation.

A company that helps parents assign homework and get it done.

A company that wants to make it easier to find the right lawyer for a legal issue.

A creator of early childhood education software for schools.

An online U.S. farm management tool that gives farmers access to real-time pricing information from their peers and the market to help them make better decisions on everything from crops to livestock.

A startup that wants to help people unload the debt they've accrued from student loans. They are currently working with 3,000 borrowers in the UK and hope to expand to the US in the next 12 months.

Helping people who are having trouble finding a plumber to pay a flat fee in order to get a plumber via referrals.

A startup that wants to help small businesses create personalized marketing campaigns by analyzing their websites. They’re currently working with companies in the UK, where they plan to launch in early 2020.

A B2C startup that supplies restaurant fitting room merchandise to their customers.

One of the most important parts of the mission is to create a platform that allows workers to generate a living wage while keeping them connected to their friends and family.

This startup is trying to make web design a “safer” profession by lowering the drop out rate.

It's a way to file expenses, set reminders, and keep track of receipts all in one place.

A platform that allows users to exchange their data between different services, paving the way for a “four-in-one” app.

A startup that provides an automated way to order flowers that works with any florist

A startup that’s bringing equity crowdfunding to the US.

A Lyft for the gig economy, this app aims to eliminate the hassles of owning a car or a car service by connecting drivers with passengers in need of a ride.

A startup for freelance designers, meant to help them find work, keep track of their clients and spend less time doing administrative tasks.

Settle.me is a video hosting platform for Airbnb hosts, helping them tell and share their stories.

This startup is building a platform that lets anyone customize a pair of shoes for any use, whether it be running a marathon, doing yoga, or just trying to look cool.

A company that allows customers to create their own travel itinerary and book their own travel plans online.

A team of fundraisers that want to help companies with their fundraising needs by offering free fundraising services. They charge companies based on the time spent on fundraising, with a maximum of $500 per month.

The startup stems from the idea that a lot of people who have billions of dollars in reserve don’t invest it, and Aorta wants to be a place where anyone can start investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks seamlessly.

An online marketplace for education. The company says it has $3m in annual recurring revenue.

A real estate startup focused on providing services to families moving to new neighborhoods.

“Surveillance” is a startup that wants to use data to help law enforcement fight crime. The startup has already secured $1.5M in funding.

A startup that wants to build an ecosystem around customer data so that customer data becomes an asset.

A startup that lets you find a job by location, offering an extensive database of job listings, in addition to job postings from companies and government agencies.

A social network that lets users share their content with the world, which they can then rate, comment upon, or share.

A health insurance startup focused on improving women of color’s health care, specifically in rural areas.

A company that provides an alternative to the traditional model of doctor’s visits. The startup wants to take the guesswork out of scheduling appointments and provide a seamless online experience.

A bot that helps companies find good contractors and save time and money.

A free, web-based workbench for enterprise architects.

A digital health platform meant to help people with a chronic medical condition like Crohn's or diabetes manage their treatment and manage their health.

A software company that will help you plan out your day and manage your tasks and to-do list.

A tool for planning events with a group of people in mind, similar to a calendar but for smaller groups. The startup is looking to partner with Indian companies that organize team events.

A niche mobile payment system for small businesses.

A platform for the visually impaired. The app translates text into an audio reading of that text, with the readout played on a phone’s loudspeaker. While the smartphone app is free to download, the smartphone’s loudspeaker is not.

A startup that makes it easy to run a business in the United States and Mexico, working with an in-country agent to help you get all the proper permits and licenses.

A startup that’s making it easier for users to supercharge their mobile devices by pairing them with high-performance wireless chargers. Its 10K program is now open for sign-ups.

One of the most interesting startups to come out of the fintech space, Nomiku is building a device that allows consumers to cook with precision.

A startup that uses an IoT platform to automatically manage the delivery of goods in the same way that Amazon and Uber do. Founded in early 2019, they’re currently in talks with logistics companies in the US, Canada and Mexico.

A startup that helps Amazon customers run their online shopping and personal finance through a mobile app.

A company that provides tools to help with implementation of the eKYC process to comply with KYC regulations by using them on clients’ behalf.

iaidigital is building a digital tool that helps cities better manage their streets and sidewalks. The startup’s software can take a photo of a pothole and instantly notify the city of the problem.

A new type of mobile subscription that allows users to pay for mobile service without a contract.

An AI-powered product that converts music into a format that sounds good on all of your devices.

A content curation platform that helps brands reach their audiences. The startup is based in New York City and is recruiting a team.

A way to facilitate payment between people that live in countries that have different currencies.

A startup that helps doctors create their own patient portals, with patient data stored in a secure environment.

A platform which allows employers to give employees of their choosing access to their company’s HR information without them having to sign up for a new account. It works with the companies’ existing HR systems, allowing employees to access information about job openings and benefits without having to sign into a new system.

Fintech startup that allows home buyers to use cryptocurrency to purchase their mortgage.

A startup that claims to make it easier to convert your product ideas into real products. The company takes your idea, converts it into a product design, and then orders the parts they need to turn it into a real product.

Idea: A startup that helps you to search for nearby events, and also provides a link to the ticketing page. It’s similar to Eventbrite, but focuses on local events.

A program that allows people to deploy “microservices”, or small apps, across their own private networks.

A company that provides a solution to help companies with developing markets increase sales and marketing efforts via a centralized marketplace.

A healthcare company that aims to build a consumer-facing platform for doctors to collaborate and manage patient medical records.

A hardware startup that allows you to make your own Bluetooth earbuds.

A startup that allows people to have a list of things they’re grateful for. Once the user’s state of mind changes, the app will notify them.

A startup that’s building a platform to help companies manage call center operations. The startup says it has $1.5 million in funding from investors including Birchmere Ventures.

This startup is developing a new type of seismic-based sensor that can be used to detect changes in seismic activity. The startup will demo the sensor at the upcoming American Geophysical Union meeting in December.

A 3D scanner for making 3D models of things, like building prototypes or product packaging. The startup is backed by the CEO of Makerbot.

A startup that is creating a new kind of shirt to wear in the office.

A platform that helps non-profits measure their impact and reach donors. The startup also offers a service for nonprofits of all sizes to produce impact reports, generally a 6-month to 1-year undertaking for a nonprofit.

Brisk is a kind of free app that allows users to buy groceries with a few clicks (and no money down).

An analytics tool for sports teams that helps them understand where fans are coming from and how their fanbase is growing over time.

A social network for restaurant employees and customers, with a focus on the restaurant’s culture and the people who go there.

This company builds technology that allows people to securely and easily send money to and from the Philippines. Their service, which launched in May of 2018, allows Filipinos to send money to family and friends without having to deal with the high fees associated with traditional remittance services.

Using a service that matches athletes to coaches, the company helps athletes compete more effectively.

A startup providing a “more human” approach to marketing automation, using AI to help marketers find marketing strategies that are tailored specifically to their customers.

Once a year, the company hosts a conference to educate its customers about the latest technology and trends in the industry.

A startup that helps people get their kids into top schools. The startup connects students with their dream colleges and helps guide them through each step of the application process.

A software and hardware system that helps people to prepare and track their taxes and taxes for other people and companies.

A web-based platform that makes it easy to record and edit audio.

A community-based crowdfunding platform for artists

A tool for managing and tracking data security and compliance on laptops.

A business that connects customers to local businesses and events.

A software company that helps retailers predict when to restock a product’s shelf. The startup’s software helps retailers forecast demand and restock in a way that fits within their current inventory.

A company that aims to make it easier for companies and people to pay for things by using bitcoin. The startup has already had some success, with a half million users, but is still in the process of developing its own wallet.

This is a company that offers a credit card for people who don’t have a credit score, and has already received over $1 million in funding from some big investors, including YCombinator, Peter Thiel, and Andreessen Horowitz.

A personal care brand that’s starting to expand into other categories, including skincare, makeup, and haircare.

A startup that helps you better manage your relationships on social networks.

A platform that turns Slack into a tool for building and managing bots. Currently in beta.

An audio platform for artists and labels to sell and distribute music and audio-visual content to customers.

A startup to help companies and entrepreneurs secure their personal data and keep it safe.

A platform that lets you share the things you love with the people around you, helping you find new contacts and discover new things to love.

A web-based solution for measuring and managing the effectiveness of ad campaigns. The platform aims to emulate the benefit of a sales rep (and their ability to monitor the effectiveness of their ads) as well as the concision of selling to an advertiser.

A startup that brings a digital assistant to the grocery store. This service allows customers to request items by name, then have the store deliver the items to their homes.

An AI-powered chatbot that responds to queries like “what is the weather like tomorrow” and “what are the sales for this week” in a manner that’s “personalized” and “conversational”. The startup hopes to move into the voice assistant space.

A startup that helps you organize your finances by category and by type, and then makes it easy for you to see what you owe, who you owe, and where you owe.

“A platform that connects people with the power of AI to help them understand their financial position in real time.” The startup wants to help users make smarter financial decisions.

A company that helps employers navigate labor laws and regulations in a more effective manner, by providing a platform for real-time labor guidance.

A company that helps chefs easily sell directly to customers via a mobile app that brings together a range of products from a variety of restaurants.

A company that makes it easier to find, book, and pay for limo rides via the web.

A way to securely send data from iOS devices to the cloud. The startup claims to be the only secure messaging service that can do this.

A digital health app for diabetics, with the goal of helping them manage their condition and achieve better outcomes.

A company that helps hoteliers manage their housekeepers, in much the same way that Netflix manages its streaming content.

A platform to simplify and enhance streaming for live music events.

A platform to help companies manage and track their safety and security needs, which can include everything from fire safety to accessibility standards.

A startup that provides a marketplace for brokers and consumers to find, book, and pay for parking. The company’s founders are former employees of Parkingify, which they say is a prime example of the need for a parking marketplace.

A SaaS service that allows people to see what others are reading, or what they’ve recommended.

A B2B platform that allows restaurants to print their own takeout menus.

A machine vision startup that is building technology to help autonomous vehicles see and navigate the city.

A company that builds software for businesses to design, manage and execute security tests.

A startup that helps small businesses understand how to use social media to help them reach new customers

A platform that helps businesses market to the right people via social and mobile channels.

A tool for teachers using interactive whiteboards to teach and collaborate with each other.

Idea : A mobile app that enables people to quickly book and pay for their parking tickets in the UK.

A tool for developers that allows them to take the languages they know and apply them to a new project type

A platform that helps people make videos about themselves, which they can then share on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch.

A way for professional athletes to keep track of their own performance data, customizing it for their particular sport.

The Talent Ally platform helps restaurants and hotels identify and hire the best employees. The startup is working with over 1,300 restaurants and hotels to offer training, job listings, and improvements to their business.

A startup that plans to compete with Basecamp, Trello and other project management platforms by offering unlimited private projects to its users.

A company that builds on-demand physical and digital spaces designed to help people recover from life-changing events.

A platform that hooks up investors to teams of entrepreneurs. The startup is trying to build a way for investors and companies to make more financial sense by linking them up.

A startup that helps people who are going through a divorce get access to lawyers and other professionals who can help them get through the process

This startup wants to help companies with managing their financial operations, like payroll, bookkeeping, and accounting.

This startup is building a tool for hiring talent for specific roles, rather than just hiring across a wide range of positions.

An iOS app that helps users find the closest, fastest, and cheapest rides to their destination. The app uses pricing data from Uber, Lyft, and a few other companies and then puts all those estimates in one place.

An enterprise SaaS startup that helps companies install and manage customer relationship management (CRM) systems through its platform.

A digital marketplace for local services aimed at helping customers find reliable services at a fixed rate, allowing them to compare prices and quality.

A real-time translation app that takes the place of traditional translation apps. It works by pulling in translated text from multiple sources in real-time.

A startup that helps people buy and sell their cars, a problem the company says is worth $17 billion in the US in a given year.

An “in-house talent management system” for small and medium-sized companies.

A startup that allows anyone to turn any object into a smart home accessory.

A startup that helps people who are traveling overseas to have a way to find safe places to sleep

A tool that helps cities build an API for companies to be able to monitor traffic and respond quickly to incidents.

An on-demand app for freelance freelance designers.

Plain is an SMS system that allows people to pay others with their phone in the middle of deals and automate payments to vendors.

A startup that helps people to write down their ideas and turn them into a reality

A messaging service for freelancers to make their pricing clearer to clients

A B2B company that provides “easy-to-use, but powerful” software that streamlines the data entry process of customer data, with plans to launch in 2020.

A tool for social entrepreneurs, allowing them to pitch investors on their ideas.

An organization for entrepreneurs and start-ups in the New York area. The startup is building a digital community with a curated marketplace for mentors, events, and funding.

A startup that is building a platform to help small businesses know the best loan options at the best rates. Part of their pitch is that they’re aiming to help people in emerging markets, where banks are more expensive.

A startup that helps hotel chains and rental car companies give customers the ability to reserve a car and a hotel room together.

A startup that helps people set up a “social room” at their house for guests to hang out together, helping them save money and plan their social calendars.

A platform for connecting people looking to hire consultants with those who have specific skills to help clients.

A recruiting-focused startup that connects job seekers to employers and job postings.

When you have a startup, you can’t just find some random engineer to join you — it takes a certain amount of money to build out your team.

The company’s CEO, Will Clark, is a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a former personal trainer, and the company’s co-founders are also experienced entrepreneurs. The company, which launched in 2013, is looking to address a major issue in the fitness industry: it’s difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to get fit.

A B2B data analytics platform for financial services companies, most importantly banks. The company was founded in 2016 and has raised $3.7M.

A company that wants to help companies customize payment plans for their employees

A team that creates digital advertising for brands. The startup says they have over 1,000 clients including companies like Ford, Sony, and General Electric.

A startup that lets you get the best price on a flight and allows you to book it on your phone. The startup says they have completed over 750,000 flights.

A piece of software that helps brands and publishers buy ads that will be shown to people who are at the same exact location as the person watching the ad.

A calendar for video producers that allows them to plan their schedules and keep track of what they have planned.

A company that makes custom snacks for kids' birthday parties, pitching it as a “version of Etsy for preschoolers”.

Service that helps people set up a mortgage loan and provides them with personalized mortgage advice from a specialist.

A “work from home” app that allows the user to access their employer’s office remotely via a tablet or a PC. The startup wants to remove the barriers that exist between employees and their work.

A tool to help you see where you spend the most time, and then improve the way your work and life are structured to make it easier.

A tool that helps identify the people that need to be at a meeting, and the people who are already there.

A startup that wants to make it easy for companies to have a way to keep track of their products’ life cycles. The plan is to sell the idea to the likes of HP, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

A startup that helps brands track influencers’ social media activity and potentially tweak marketing campaigns.

A music service that lets individuals create and share their own playlists, with access to curated lists of songs and playlists.

A startup that bundles travel packages (air, hotel, rental car) for you

A tool that allows local contractors to create a profile of their work, and then, when a project is ready to be bid, the contractor can upload their work and get an instant quote from the bidders. The company charges $25 per month for the service, and the company is currently in private beta.

This startup is building a last-mile delivery platform that puts the onus on the customer to order their own food.

A social app that allows users to “pick up” someone else’s profile and follow them instantly, without having to create a whole account.

An AI based on the brain scans of professional baseball players that can predict at what point a hitter will break his bat on a pitch.

A group of engineers is building a Cloud-based service that wants to help companies with internal and external security. It’s designed for companies to manage their security operations and provide a single place for customers to get in touch with their security teams.

A SaaS service that helps companies build marketing automation programs that work for their specific channels.

A platform for the entertainment industry to create, manage, and monetize its content. The startup says it will help artists “pivot to new business models, stay profitable, and expand their business”.

A startup that uses AI to help companies better understand how their employees are spending their time and what kinds of activities they want to do.

A platform to connect suppliers to restaurants with the goal of increasing food security in the developing world.

A startup-like platform for building social media profiles, curating other people’s content, and connecting with influencers.

A new type of video chat that includes a “super-fast camera” and instant zoom. The company wants to build a video chat experience that can be both more intimate and more powerful than the current line of video chat apps.

A business to help companies manage their credit cards and make sure they pay their bills on time.

A startup that lets you track your mileage on a car, bike, or moped. It’s like a mileage tracker but for the world’s most commonly owned modes of transportation.

A startup that sells a USB-connected device that allows you to remotely control your home’s lights and television, and allow users to launch and log into apps on their phones.

Helps people know when the best time to buy a product is.

A startup that provides work for people who live with chronic anxiety

A company that started as an app for sharing and selling products but has pivoted to personal finance coaching.

A B2B product-development platform that allows companies to utilize the capabilities of their own internal developers.

As a person’s social circle expands, it gets harder to keep track of old and new friends. Fellow is a service that helps you keep track of everyone you know, and share them with others.

A subscription-based social media platform that integrates with Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to share posts and access content.

A new kind of social networking platform that gives users their own personal “safe space” within the network. The site is focused on being a safe place for people to express themselves, and is designed to be a safe space for people of all types, but especially for those who are marginalized.

A platform for communication, collaboration and information sharing among small and medium-sized businesses.

A startup that lets you sync your Microsoft Outlook calendar to your iPhone.

A software company that wants to help people learn Mandarin. It uses online games to make a language accessible to everyone.

A home care services startup that helps seniors living in their own homes with tasks like cleaning and laundry.

An identity verification tool for international travelers.

This startup is building a program that allows students to build an online resume and portfolio, even if they didn’t finish high school, while they learn the skills they need to get a job.

A decentralized “flash sales” platform for retailers and brands.

A B2B software platform for managing the bookkeeping and accounting of a company, which takes the place of a bookkeeper.

Espresso is a software company that uses machine learning to automate the process of hiring telecommuters in the US, using a platform that was built specifically for this.

A company that makes reusable plastic shopping bags that are 100% compostable.

A tool for scouts to manage datagrids.

A startup that provides remote workers with the tools to efficiently monitor, report, and communicate their team’s progress, with the goal of giving managers the ability to manage teams, with less need for face time. The company has raised $1.2 million in funding, and has customers in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

A platform for students to find study groups

A social network for engineers, designed to compete with Stack Exchange and Quora.

is a platform for selling used textbooks and keeping college students accountable for their books.

A platform for small business owners to sell their products online. It has a marketplace and a back-end software that lets small business owners create and sell their products online.

SaaS product that helps businesses manage their marketing data, with a focus on helping organizations increase productivity by segmenting and grouping the data, and using it to create predictive analytics and forecasting tools.

A company which helps brands and event planners create love letters to their fans, based on their feedback or engagement.

A company that helps businesses learn about and engage with their local customers in a way that doesn’t require a separate app.

A city-level tool to let governments track environmental health and pollution using sensors, analytics, and mobile-based data. The startup has the backing of the mayor of Chicago and the EPA.

A startup for selling and buying used cars. The startup plans to build a national network of used car dealers to help consumers meet sellers of similar cars. The startup will take a moderate percentage of the sale.

A fast-growing startup that’s taken apart a $50 billion company and is building a new one.

The startup is building a social network for people who love to cook, with an emphasis on making it a place where everyone can learn from each other’s cooking.

A travel booking platform that connects consumers with local businesses to offer services like free airport parking, meal discounts, or access to free Wi-Fi.

A company that invests in early stage startups that can help tech companies improve their security.

A startup based in New York City that aims to kill the email inbox forever by creating a tool that allows users to “scan and organize” their email inbox, creating an “out of sight out of mind” mentality that could help people focus on the most important things.

A tool that lets you share your favorite quotes on-demand and have them put into an email signature by a company’s service provider.

Tech company that builds bots and machine learning tools to help companies build chatbots and build intelligence into their digital interactions.

A platform that helps companies “create and manage high-quality video content” by coordinating video production and distribution.

A startup that’s building out a marketplace where people can sell their old smartphones, which the startup says will be used to fund a better future.

A startup that connects customers with their local locksmiths via text message, with the startup taking a cut of each transaction.

A tool for connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic

A startup that’s building a tool that helps big companies manage their global supply chains. They say they’re already working with Motorola Mobility.

A company that allows appointment scheduling across different platforms in a single interface.

A content management system for fashion brands. The startup says it can help fashion brands stand out by making their online content more interactive and engaging.

An AI-powered chatbot that helps you negotiate the best deal on a car loan.

A “true” concierge service where homeowners and renters can get help with things like groceries and dry cleaning

A real estate brokerage that focuses on rental properties.

This startup from Stanford is building a social network for software engineers to share work references, solve problems, and collaborate.

A startup that’s building a community for people with experience in the health and fitness industry.

A startup that makes custom-made, 3D-printed female prosthetics that can be used to treat urinary incontinence in women.

Booking.com has 50 million customers, but they still have to manually approve bookings. The startup wants to build a system that automatically approves bookings for hotels, without human intervention.

Cordyceps is a startup that helps you book medical appointments based on availability and location. The app can be used to book appointments, but it can also help you find an appointment for a dentist or other medical professional based on availability and location.

Idea: A tool for helping people improve their sleep. The startup provides a mattress with embedded sensors that can track movement and sound, letting users track data about their sleep.

A tool that helps socially conscious people invest their money in socially conscious companies.

A startup that’s building a data analytics platform that can help retailers determine the most profitable locations to open new stores.

A healthcare solution for the elderly in developing countries.

A scheduling tool for people with a full-time schedule who are looking to find time to go to the gym.

A real estate agency software that helps agents close deals.

A startup for visually tracking cooking, with a chat tool for a community of food lovers. The app aims to help users cook more efficiently, with features like measuring and recipe creation.

A startup in the travel industry that offers a new way to book hotels through a single app. The company, which was founded in May, is now live in over 40 cities and has over 4,000 hotel rooms booked.

A software company that helps companies with their legal process, from contract negotiation to hiring a lawyer for their legal needs.

A company that claims to have the world’s smallest solar power system. It’s for homes, but can be used anywhere.

If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.

A startup that connects consumers and brands to help them buy products online. The founder is a former Google engineer who was a co-founder of Instacart, a grocery delivery service, before launching this startup.

This company is in beta with a proof-of-concept product they built to make it easier for people to sign up for a newsletter. The startup offers free accounts, and then charges a small fee to advertisers.

A platform that turns any physical object into a digital token, like a phone case or a piece of clothing. The idea is that these tokens are collectible, to help people get the most out of their physical possessions.

A platform that helps companies make more informed hiring decisions by tracking candidates’ social media activities.

A startup that connects consumers, who want to buy organic produce, with local farms.

A company looking to help health clinics manage their patient records online.

A startup that wants to help you kickstart the work on your next app or product. They’ll sell you the software, hosting, and marketing for a set price, and help you sell it to customers.

A startup called “SendGrid for recruiters” that helps recruiters send out personalized, relevant e-mails to job seekers.

A digital service that uses facial recognition to verify whether a person is who they say they are.

A platform that lets you upload your own smart contracts onto the Ethereum blockchain.

The startup is developing a global network of “Barista of the Future” in 20 countries where them will be a barista in a coffee shop, and they earn a living wage. The program is designed to provide baristas with the skills they need to run their own business, and to help them start their own locations.

A company developing a device that cuts the cord on the ties that attach laptops to desks.

A startup for monitoring and measuring the usage of workplace facilities like gyms and bike racks. The startup is based in the US, but is looking to expand globally.

A Slack-like tool for managing and collaborating on projects.

A fake account that updates you on trending topics and stories that others are talking about, but are too boring or too niche to actually care about.

A platform that helps parents manage their children’s everything from school and extracurricular activities to college visits and birthdays. The founders say they’ve launched a beta version of the platform that lets parents order and schedule activities, and set rules around cancelling and rescheduling. The founders also have a personal story about how their startup led them to discover their company’s mission.

A graduate of Y Combinator and Google Brain, a startup spun out of Stanford’s machine learning lab that wants to make machine learning accessible to researchers by making it easy to train models without having to write code.

A B2B startup that helps doctors use AI to create personalized medical records to help doctors better diagnose their patients.

A startup that uses AI to help retailers like Macy’s and JCPenney, increase sales and save money by collating consumer data and more effectively targeting customers.

Feature-length documentary about the Mumbai commuter train system and the people who use it

To help people build better resumes, the startup is creating a new kind of resume that knows what job it’s applying to, based on its skillset, and tailors its content accordingly.

A platform to enable a “smart pool”. The startup is building technology that allows for robotic pool maintenance so pool owners don’t have to spend hours performing maintenance tasks.

Helps independent auto dealers find out what cars to buy and set up payment plans for customers.

A tool for managing your portfolio of stocks, bonds and other assets.

A payments startup that helps merchants accept all major credit cards by charging them the same price. PayMill charges the merchant a flat 2.5% fee for every credit card transaction.

This year’s judges were Jason Ho, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures; Kristi Puller, Founder, and CEO, Techstars; Bill Gaver, General Partner, 500 Startups; and Sanjay Dastoor, Founder, and CEO, InVenture Partners.

A startup that is building a platform to allow high school students to build a career in technology.

A tool that measures a company’s chances of going under based on their current financial situation.

A digital ledger for tracking the ownership of documents, so that people can more easily prove their ownership and avoid fraud.

A toolkit that helps companies train their employees on how to work together to become more productive.

The startup is building a platform to facilitate the creation of immersive media experiences. The startup is building a VR/AR platform to allow people to create experiences.

A startup that automates the process of producing invoices and tracking payments for small businesses, including accounting.

A platform that helps recruiters find and screen candidates in cities around the world.

A platform that helps small businesses easily manage all their accounts, from accounting to taxes. The company, which is bootstrapped, has been in business for three years, and has a team of eight in Bengaluru.

A media sharing platform that helps people find and share content in a wide variety of formats.

Enterprise software that streamlines employee onboarding and employee health care plans.

A SaaS product for sales teams that helps them organize their pipeline, track expenses and manage call data.

A school with a curriculum focused on the arts. The startup aims to create a curriculum that will help students learn “skills and techniques that they can put to use in a diverse range of fields”.

A consumer analytics product that allows companies to see real-time consumer data trends.

This startup is building a machine learning tool to help people create and distribute their own live video streams, much like the aforementioned idea. They’re also building a “discovery pipeline” that lets users vote among the new tools that emerge from voting.

This startup is building an AI-powered email marketing platform for managing email marketing campaigns across all of an organization’s email addresses.

A platform that allows users to create and manage their own “user experiences” on a number of websites. People can make their own websites and online content, and get paid to do so.

Building a blockchain that uses smart contracts to increase the accuracy of B2B transactions.

Businesses that have a permanent physical presence in a city can now use Google Maps to check the status of their storefront — whether it’s open or closed — and see when it will open.

A company that allows businesses to create personalized discount coupons that are good in stores across the country.

App that builds on the long-established tradition of the “goodbye” note. The startup wants to help you say goodbye to people over email or text message with a personalized note.

This is a mobile application that helps entrepreneurs find, vet and manage teams. It was built by Y Combinator’s own team and is a set of tools that help founders navigate the startup ecosystem.

A “global prescription drug purchasing company”, with offices in New York, LA, and London.

A Slack-like messaging app that is designed to be collaborative, not competitive. The app is meant to be a collaborative workspace for employees working on projects.

A startup that helps the visually impaired use their phone to read text. It’s a text-to-speech app that uses synthetic speech and does not require a camera.

The startup is building a smart, AI-powered platform for hiring, connecting talent to employers, and helping talent find new opportunities.

A platform that helps companies sift through tons of data coming from various automation systems to get to “actionable insights”.

This is a “mobile-first” social media platform for people who hate social media.

A tool for doctors to make sure they’re not sending patients to the wrong hospital.

A startup that helps Chinese companies grow overseas by leveraging the data on their Chinese customers to target them in the US

A new company that lets users make their own bitcoin by mining it with their computer, which is then split among users. The app was first released in December 2017, and since then has grown to over 500,000 users.

An HR platform for employers to manage all of their employee data, from payroll to benefits, and employee data.

A subscription platform for DIY projects, with a focus on home improvement projects. The startup is looking to help homeowners save money on their home improvement projects by removing the need for a contractor.

This startup is building an AI-powered and hyper-personalized digital assistant to help consumers with their day-to-day tasks like booking travel, flight status check, and tracking packages.

A utility-scale solar plant in the US that stores excess power and sells it into the grid.

A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.

A B2B software company that works with companies to manage their sizeable legacy software deployments across large numbers of systems. The startup wants to help companies take advantage of open source and cloud infrastructure to reduce costs and scale.

In addition to the awards, IGNITE will also award $10,000 in equity to each winner to seed a new startup.

A project management platform that connects teams with on-demand freelancers and contractors.

A web-based accounting tool that helps businesses manage and track their finances.

A tool that allows employees to set up a flexible work schedule. This is currently in an early stage of development and has no immediate plans for the growth of the business.

Personal financial management system for businesses that want to understand what their clients’ lives are like, and what products they’re buying, and help them manage their money.

A startup building a new way to manage email and marketing efforts for companies. In May, the company raised $7 million in seed funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator.

A company focused on helping companies find and recruit people who create content like blogs, podcasts, or YouTube channels. Content creators have to manually fill out applications and get approval from the startup to be on their platform. The startup has already raised $100,000 and is looking for more investment.

A tool for connecting consumers with sales opportunities. It’s currently in beta.

A startup that provides a service where you can order a box of products for a specific time period, for example, I want to try to eat healthy for the next month, so I

A company making a smart lens that takes photos using the phone’s camera and then automatically identifies people, objects and background information in the photo. The startup is now shipping the lens as a standalone product.

A web and mobile app that helps small businesses manage their entire back end, including accounting, payroll, and e-commerce. It’s backed by a bunch of VCs, including Andreessen Horowitz, and has raised $10 million in funding.

A platform that lets you book live or video webinars with experts

A mobile payments startup, focused on helping the unbanked in India, that’s created by a team of MIT grads that previously worked at a mobile payments company.

A tool for booking rooms, like Airbnb but for short stay hotels.

SaaS shopping cart software for online retailers with a focus on the UK.

A group of entrepreneurs starting a new software company.

A company that lets people set aside money for their child's college education by investing in a prepaid tuition plan.

A new way to get paid for writing things, especially for writers who don’t want to write things for pay.

A company that wants to help companies find employees in an increasingly challenging job market.

The startup is building a way for consumers to check their credit scores on their phones, so they can see what if they were to refinance a mortgage, apply for a credit card, or shop for a new loan.

A startup that wants to create a platform for people to make money using their skills and talent, with the goal of creating a sustainable path for the next generation of entrepreneurs in the US.

A tool that helps workers estimate the time it will take them to complete a task.

A startup that connects home owners with homeowners insurance. The startup has raised $3 million to expand its product to 43 states.

A B2B platform for local businesses that helps them find and choose the right contractors for the job.

A startup that makes a medical device for monitoring vital signs and connecting to an app. The startup aims to save lives by simplifying and automating the processes that are often done by nurses.

A startup that makes it easier for people to sell items online. The startup has already done a pilot with local stores in Hong Kong and Singapore.

A program that helps veterans and others with PTSD to access their medical records without leaving the comfort of home. The startup is providing a web-based platform to access electronic health records in a manner that is secure and private.

A startup that provides a service for people who are traveling abroad to have someone mail them necessities

A platform that lets businesses sell directly to their customers – similar to services like Shopify or Stripe.

A startup that wants to make fitness apps as accessible as possible. It’s developing a service that can do things like send texts to your phone with workout time reminders and sets reminders on your phone for you to work out.

A system that makes it easy for brands to extend their online presence to mobile, built on the company’s own platform.

A crowdfunding platform that specializes in helping startups and small businesses get off the ground by lending them money and by providing them with a platform to raise money.

Social media for the affluent, for people who want to spend more on their social media habits and keep tabs on their friends’ lives.

A startup that connects business owners with moms who want to use their space for parties. The startup, which launched in June, is working with over 20 local businesses to help owners find moms to host dinner, bake sales, lunch meetings, and much more.

A tool for retailers to boost the productivity of their store staff by simplifying manual data entry tasks that could be done automatically.

A software tool that lets users create custom reports for their businesses.

Another startup that wants to simplify life for the average Indian.

A startup that’s building a tool for measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. It will allow marketers to track their performance and measure impact.

A web app that helps people find joy in the everyday. You’ll be able to build a home page or blog, then use it to share content with friends, or invite others to join in.

A platform that helps you manage your expenses, helps you keep track of your spending and helps you save money.

Idea: This is a startup that makes a “smart” doorbell. It has a camera, a microphone, and a speaker. Users can talk to delivery and service providers through the doorbell, and the device can be used to monitor and intervene in domestic abuse cases.

A company that makes it easy for companies to build better software by helping them test their apps and websites. They’re big on software testing, and also offer a test platform ecosystem.

Helping U.S. companies manage their risk, similar to how Schwab fills this role for traditional financial services firms.

A company that wants to be the fabric store for the home, allowing consumers to order custom-fitted clothing.

A startup that’s looking to build a platform that helps parents find the best activities for their kids, and pay them fairly.

A business-to-business (B2B) sales tool that helps firms manage their advertising campaigns.

An AI-powered messaging-based dating app that brings a human element back to online dating.

A startup that is building a platform to help companies manage data in various systems, including CRM and ERP.

A team that uses the power of the blockchain to build tools to help people build protocols for their marketplaces or sites.

A company that lets people stream movies from their smartphones using the company’s app.

A full-stack app development company that focuses on building apps for mobile, desktop, and web.

A company that’s building a new way to implement the technology from the behind-the-scenes work of a video game.

A software platform that helps coaches get more out of their clients, using coaching as a tool for growth and personal development.

A platform that helps people with no credit understand how credit works.

A system that helps companies have conversations with customers via automated SMS messaging.

A software & hardware startup that makes a $100 credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner

A startup that works with the insurance industry to help streamline claims procedures, saving companies from having to send thousands of paper denial letters every year.

A startup that provides a way to learn German online. It’s a separate app users can download if they’d like to focus on learning the language.

The startup is building a new kind of mobile payments platform that aims to be the “Google of payments”. The company says they have more than 150,000 merchants on the platform.

A tool for web developers to get an in-depth understanding of how readers are viewing their websites, and how to improve them.

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A mobile platform that connects customers with local businesses via SMS, via text message. The texting platform is free for customers, and businesses pay a monthly fee ($6.95/month) to use the service.

Host a movie night for up to 20 friends and family members with a home theater system.

This is a company that is trying to bring back the concept of the “sales engineer” into startups.

A new way to make small investments in companies via a traditional stock exchange, where a fund manager buys shares in a private company and sells them to public investors. A good example of a startup that is trying to bring the benefits of high-frequency trading to a more traditional model.

A startup that uses machine learning to help businesses automate the process of recruiting, testing, and tracking candidates.

A startup for third-party data and insights for publishers, which provides data on things like which news publishers have the most pageviews, most shares, etc.

THISWEEK.io is a news magazine that tells you what’s happening this week in your city.

A platform that helps music artists with marketing, merchandising, and tour management. They have also launched a new app, PressPlay, that’s a digital music locker.

A company that helps small businesses save more of their revenue by selling services like insurance, maintenance, and customer support through a white label platform.

A peer-to-peer insurance startup that wants to help people get out of debt.

A B2B mobile app for branded influencers with the ability to create and manage campaigns, with a focus on social media management.

Idea: A startup that’s building a portfolio management platform for cryptocurrency. It allows people to track their crypto investments on a single dashboard.

A tool for ordering food from home, selling it to neighbors, and then delivering it.

An online clothing retailer that’s already built an online store for its own clothing line. They’re looking to expand their product line with new designers and consumers, who can find their products in the app.

A software company that makes it easier for crowdfunding campaigns to get verified by the SEC.

A maker of solar-powered vehicles

SaaS for companies that internationalize their websites. It helps companies with everything from translation to the process of internationalizing their websites to the legal and regulatory implications of internationalizing their websites.

This startup is working on a solution to help local governments keep track of trash and recycling in their districts.

A platform for software developers to be able to build and test mobile apps and websites with ease. In a press release, the company said that its technology was “designed to reduce the time and cost of development for mobile applications.”

A maker of solar-powered vehicles

Built a mobile app that allows people in India to send money to family across state lines.

A tool that allows users to sell their data and use the proceeds to buy other apps or things. The startup is trying to be the Facebook of apps.

A startup for the sale of used and new cars.

A startup that’s building a network of shared work spaces throughout the country.

A platform that helps companies grow their salesforce. Founded in September 2017, in the first week it managed to close over $1.7 million in deals.

A platform for remote workers where they can share their workspace, access to tools and other resources, and can build the work environment they need. The company recently received $1.75 million in seed funding.

This company aims to create an ecosystem that enables people to earn money by connecting their social networks to their bank accounts.

A company that is building an HR platform that connects employers and workers to make the hiring and onboarding process smoother and less error-prone.

A company that helps people in the UK save money on their mobile phone bill. The startup says it saves up to 70% on mobile bills by switching customers to the best plan for their usage.

A digital wallet for more than 200 countries, looking to integrate digital payments into businesses that don’t yet have them.

A startup to help travellers navigate the security lines at airports and customs in any country.

A mobile-first platform for small and medium businesses to connect with local and global marketing. The platform is the brainchild of veterans of the mobile payments industry.

A platform that helps the elderly maintain independence and control over their finances. The company wants to provide financial tools to help the elderly maintain independence and control over their finances.

A startup aiming to make it easier for people to do business internationally

A startup that is building an augmented reality platform to allow people to place virtual objects on top of real-world objects.

This startup wants to improve the process of buying and selling homes by using algorithms, AI, and machine learning to make the process faster and more transparent.

The company is building an AI-powered platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically identify and recommend products to customers.

A team of former HubSpot and Google employees have created a new startup called Binder that makes it easy for sales and marketing teams to collaborate with one another.

A startup building a way to help employees take a break during the workday, so they can get a healthy lunch and get some fresh air, and still keep their work tasks moving forward.

A company that’s making online payments and invoicing seamless for businesses.

This is streamlining the process of managing employees in-person and remotely by making it much easier to communicate with employees, set up meetings, and review schedules. The company is currently piloting with large retailers, and plans to expand to other verticals in the future.

A tool for helping entrepreneurs find funding for their businesses, based out of the Silicon Valley area.

A startup that allows you to create a “move” between friends, effectively turning a video call into a video-text-chat.

It’s a platform for developing personal finance apps that lets users build budgets, track spending, and automate tasks.

A documentary filmmaker who wants to sell his films to international markets.

A startup that matches people for daycare and nanny work.

This is a marketplace for buyers and sellers of vintage clothing, with the goal of helping both sides find more efficient ways to do business. The startup is working with a brick and mortar store in Amsterdam.

A startup that helps companies use AI to find new customers through social media. The startup uses Facebook and Twitter to see what people want, then finds companies that fit that profile.

A bot that can automatically find lost items and return them to their owner.

The startup will use its software to help companies track their employees’ time. It provides a real-time map of what everyone is doing, like seeing which employee is in a meeting with a client, which employee is checking in with a new client, and how much time they spent on each task.

A company that makes a product called “Flex”, a flexible structural material that can be used to build buildings instead of using steel beams.

A platform that allows designers to sell their work without having to learn code

A startup that’s building a robotic vacuum cleaner for indoor use; it’s first product is a $10 model that’s meant to work in high-traffic areas like bedrooms.

A simple tool for managing your online reputation.

A startup that wants to create a “Global Economic Graph” with a database that will track international trade.

A tool for determining whether a person is a good fit for an internship or a job. The startup has had over 100 job profiles posted, with over 500 people applying.

A startup that allows the programmers of a community to build a better, faster and more stable website for their online community. The company is developing an API for community sites to integrate into their own.

an app that helps people connect with the people who sign their social media posts with the hashtag “#BOOM.” It’s for people who want to bring attention to the topics they care about and make a name for themselves in the process.

The company wants to help companies manage their travel logistics for conferences, including hotel rooms, transportation, and food.

A startup that goes after the 5 million small businesses that have yet to accept payments online. Their vision is to be able to “complete, manage, and reimburse small business invoices”.

A company that helps companies buy insurance ahead of a disaster by getting quotes from multiple providers.

A company that makes dog toys through 3D printing.

A French startup that makes it easier for people to get their hands on medical marijuana. The startup wants to make it easier for people to get quality medical marijuana, even if they don’t live in a state where it’s legal.

The bizbuzz app is an app that allows users to quickly connect with potential clients. The app is free to download on iOS and Android.

A startup that works with real estate agents to help them become property managers. The company is growing quickly in the US, and aims to do the same in India.

A platform for connecting people looking to hire consultants with those who have specific skills to help clients.

Idea: A startup that helps retail businesses create personalized images and videos for their products. The company’s CEO says that the startup’s technology has already been used to create over 3,000 videos, and the startup has generated $50,000 in revenue so far.

A software platform for remote companies to manage their recruiting processes and gain a more effective applicant tracking.

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate the process of generating a complete financial proposal for a business.

A platform for people to learn their own personal finance. The startup uses gamification to teach users about their finances and to promote financial literacy.

A way for advertisers to measure the success of their ads, and for consumers to see which products get the highest engagement.

This startup wants to reduce the vacuum of small-time investors. It wants to help small-time investors to make money by helping them invest in the startups that are providing them with the best return on investment.

A startup that sells phone cases where the back of the case can be customized to show a picture of your child

The startup is building a Wi-Fi device with a built-in battery for charging your phone in the middle of nowhere, allowing for more travel freedom.

A startup that makes a camera that works in underwater settings and can take 1080p video underwater. The startup has launched a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign for a “Nemo” camera.

A platform where people can borrow a car for a day or a week

This startup is building a device to help hard of hearing people navigate public spaces.

A way to help emergency services manage their fleets of ambulances, fire trucks and police cars.

In an effort to bring a local currency to impoverished areas of the Middle East, the startup is building a mobile app that allows users to earn money by paying their bills and buying mobile phone top-up credits on the go.

A tool for HR to help employees onboard in the US military and veterans.

A traditional pharmacy and health clinic that sells prescriptions and medical services online, but also provides telemedicine services. It’s aimed at people who want to shop and get care at the same place.

A network for mobile phone users that connects them to legal services and legal professionals. The startup was founded in 2015 and is based in the UK.

A “Facebook for your finances”, enabling people to see where their money is going and how it’s being spent.

Building a system for insuring personal property.

A company that helps you track down your lost luggage and helps you make sure it’s not been stolen.

A machine learning platform to predict which cases in the hospital will likely succeed and which ones will likely fail. The startup says they can reduce the average cost of a surgical procedure by a third with this system.

A credit scoring startup that uses data from credit card and bank purchases to provide a customer’s credit score.

A platform for independent artists to market, sell, and discover art. Creative Market has over 2 million users, so they want to help new artists set up their own store to sell their work.

A “freemium” site for sending money to friends and family

Teamwork makes the corporate office a coworking space, allowing employees to work together from home.

A mobile payments app for hospitals and long-term care facilities.

A company that helps geospatial companies like Uber and Lyft better understand the best routes and pricing to reach customers by using data from their phone to track their location.

A startup that connects farmers with buyers. The startup helps farmers find buyers with the goal of making agriculture more profitable and sustainable.

The startup is creating a simple way for people to grow their own food in urban areas

A platform that helps lower the barrier for students and schools to create and share their own content.

Created to “solve” the problem of the $1,000 fees that banks charge to cash checks. The company says it’s saving its users $1,000/month by providing them with real-time access to their funds — and saving them the hassle of having to visit a bank branch.

An Amazon for online stock photos, offering deep product analysis, search, and AI-assisted photo tagging.

A startup that builds a software platform for making financial decisions for seniors. It allows seniors to make financial decisions through a mobile app, and is currently working with two dozen Medicare beneficiaries.

A startup that offers a tool for store owners to visualize their inventory on a single platform.

A startup that wants to help farmers in the developing world sell their produce, and thus increase their income.

This is a new kind of tool that lets people create and edit videos together, and helps them collaborate on what they’re doing.

A startup that helps convert documents into video so they can be more easily used by the visually impaired.

This startup is building a new kind of network for startups, one that allows them to share their financial data, such as their expenses, with other investors. In the past six months, the startup has raised $3 million from investors.

A startup that provides tools for developers to build apps for the iPhone. It’s a business that lots of other companies in the space have tried to do.

A startup focused on building an automated system for Algorithmic Portfolio Trading

A personal assistant that supports you through the purchase process.

A platform that helps you create a “personal podcast” in which you interview a stranger about their life.

The company wants to create a new way for people to book travel, with the startup considering various uses for the tool. However, the company is not looking to develop a competing product to travel site Expedia.

A startup that pairs job seekers with employers and arranges interviews, enabling the hiring process to happen without the hassle of having to deal with recruiters.

A social network for Latinx entrepreneurs and women with entrepreneur friends.

A startup that helps banks and other lenders get people to save more money by helping them make small deposits on a monthly basis.

A startup that wants to build a system that uses machine learning to help businesses with advertising.

This company is building a tool that allows you to monitor your energy usage online.

The company is building a platform so that retailers can create personalized in-store experiences based on what people are buying online.

This startup is building a platform for organizations to manage and streamline their workflows, building a “digital hub” for teams.

A startup that aims to give sellers the ability to sell their projects on their own terms, without having to go through a large reseller in the middle.

A software platform that allows companies to manage their energy consumption and reduce energy bills. The company says it has $5.5M in seed funding, with a $1M Series A round in the works.

A startup that connects people who want to host an event with people who want to host an event. The startup has a staff of 20 and is based in San Francisco.

A visual search engine for photos. The startup is trying to build a search engine that boils down huge amounts of data into a vector-based visualization that can be manipulated with a computer.

This company is building an artificial intelligence engine that can build 3D models of anything in real time.

A startup for the homeless, letting them order food via text message and pick it up at a central hub.

Building an ecosystem of companies that help people make money on their unused belongings.

A startup that sells Android phones in bulk to the developing world

A startup that allows developers to easily develop apps for blockchain technologies and ICOs.

A new way to pay for quarterly web hosting.

A “pay as you go” media model, allowing content creators to provide a service they provide a portion of the revenue from, allowing them to build a sustainable business

A tool to help nonprofits create their own call-to-action campaigns, by turning their event pages into a call-to-action page.

A startup that aims to be the Uber of online tutoring and tests. It’s a relatively new startup, founded in April.

A digital banking platform for Puerto Rico, bringing a mobile-first approach to the island.

A tool that lets you send money to friends, family and businesses.

The company says it will be the first to offer a business development platform with the ability to serve the two different markets in India, B2B and B2C.

A startup to find and buy used furniture, which makes the process easier for both buyers and sellers. The company is currently in beta, with the site having been live on a small scale for just over a year.

An e-commerce platform that features custom-built construction hardware stores, and an iOS app to help contractors and designers manage their projects.

A startup that is building an AI assistant for home assistants, helping them take care of daily tasks for their users. The startup was founded in May and is looking to raise $1MM.

A company that helps companies enable “pay it forward” and other charitable and social giving programs and enable them to get tax benefits for donations.

A dead simple, easy to use app that lets users track and manage their expenses. It helps users keep track of spending and stay within their allowances.

A startup that catches errors in production and cuts them out before you deliver the finished product.

A building-materials startup that delivers everything you need to build a house

A startup for watching sports and other live events, with a focus on baseball. For example, MLB.TV provides you with access to the home team's uniform and logo, game schedules, and game stats.

This startup is building a real-time travel app that uses the GPS on your phone to help you navigate to your next destination.

A company that wants to build a platform that allows users to run their own autonomous transportation service. The startup has raised $2 million in seed funding. Their first product is the Dragon Ride, a micro electric vehicle that can carry up to 40 pounds of cargo.

A platform that allows companies to offer employees flexible work arrangements as part of their benefits package. It’s basically a HR tool for companies to manage their workplace.

A solar-powered $15,000 jacket that generates energy from the sun and has a built-in battery to charge itself.

This business helps manage employee schedules, and allows companies to communicate with employees by voice or text message.

A “digital hospital” focused on improving patient interactions in their healthcare

A group of photographers who create a “worldwide portfolio of travel images”, focusing on “underrepresented cultures”.

A smart device that can monitor sleep cycles and ease the process of getting a better night's sleep. The startup is building out a smart device to help people sleep better.

A company that allows people to find and rent out their unused furniture and appliances. The startup wants to upend the industry by offering a way to sell the stuff you own while making money on the stuff you don't.

A platform that provides the tools for digital marketing agencies to do work for themselves. The startup has built a suite of tools to make it easy for digital agencies to create and manage digital campaigns for clients.

A startup that lists jobs for students interested in jobs during the summer

This is a startup that sells the parts needed to build a 3D printer.

A platform for launching new companies, and for helping investors find the right fund to back.

An AI-powered chatbot that can help companies and employees schedule meetings, handle travel coordination, book rooms and even help with pre-determined tasks in the office.

A startup that is working to create a cryptocurrency that helps people stay organized by helping them store and share their photos.

This is a service for parents to track the sleep and activity of their children, so they can see how their child’s habits are affecting their health.

A fashion tech startup that connects fashion designers with brands looking to work with them.

A “social beauty community” platform.

A more personal way to pay back student loans. The startup helps students manage their debt by putting on an income-based repayment plan. It’s a platform for students to create a customized plan and manage their debt.

A company that takes photos of everything, then turns them into a library of product imagery that can be used to sell products online.

A tool for both people who want to learn how to code and for people who want to teach others. The idea is to use a “coding curriculum” to teach both a beginner and a more advanced user how to code in areas like WordPress.

A system for schools and educational institutions to host online courses and one-on-one tutoring.

A platform for managing people in the tech industry, including finding jobs and getting paid well for them.

A company that will help investors in the UK to buy property via an online marketplace.

A software company that is looking to build out a data management platform for hospitals and other healthcare institutions, offering a full-stack solution that helps hospitals gain a better understanding of their data.

A startup that helps people save money by helping them live in the moment and stop obsessing about money.

A tool that helps people find freelance work by sourcing it through a network of people who have the skills they need.

A startup that wants to help companies get a head start on building a social media presence before they launch.

This startup is building a platform for teachers to build their own learning resources and organize them on their own. The startup wants to build a set of tools for teachers that make it easy to build, publish and share their own learning materials.

A software platform for the digital health and wellness market. The startup is focused on helping people manage their health and wellness through a mobile app and an accompanying digital dashboard.

A tool with a simple design that helps organizations and software developers build and manage their websites. It’s focused on small-to-medium businesses.

An AI-based system that helps companies better understand new hires by collecting data on their personality traits.

A company that documents and shares the most popular requests for charity and non-profit organizations with the goal of “democratizing” the process for donors.

Shopping cart software designed for retailers who don’t have a large inventory. It’s targeted at mom-and-pop shops. The startup is in the early stages of building out its business.

A startup for people to connect for shared interests. People can suggest what movies and music are being talked about and vote on a list of suggestions.

Helping online retailers and brands sell “non-perishable products”.

A realtime database that crunches social media and digital marketing analytics from realtime sources. The startup is focusing on the UK market.

The startup aims to help brokers and sellers of used vehicles and vehicles for sale deal directly with each other.

A startup that offers an online platform for medical billers to more easily collect payments from patients.

A startup that’s building a solution for managing the millions of cars across the US. They’re working with Tesla and BMW.

A company that helps companies make sense of data generated by their sales leads, stock trades, and invoices.

Real estate startup that wants to help landlords build out their properties

A startup that helps companies and students organize their schoolwork, store it, and share it

A startup where users can create and sell customizable AR apps. The startup is currently working with partners in the Middle East to help them get started.

A system that can monitor and optimize the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

A company that aims to help companies determine which labor-saving devices are actually more efficient and cost-effective for their operations.

A platform for people to find, book, and manage their personal trainers. The startup wants to be a way for people to manage their fitness and health to better their lives.

A payments company that allows you to take payments for your health and insurance over the phone, rather than on your phone or website.

A 10-person startup that wants to make it easier for people to donate their blood. It’s a startup that has one person working in it full-time and another holding down a full-time job elsewhere.

A startup based in Shenzhen, China, that’s building a software tool for small businesses that helps with accounting, tax preparation, and payment processing

A multi-platform tool that makes it easy to create a website and get it live on the web. The startup has raised $3.5M to date.

A video analytics startup that tracks and analyzes video content in real time. The startup lets brands create ads based on time and content of video.

A telemedicine platform for the elderly that allows them to get healthcare advice from doctors in their community.

A startup using algorithms to recommend movies based on your taste.

An email marketing platform that automatically creates HTML-based landing pages for each email campaign.

A product that makes it easier to manage and understand your credit.

A software company that helps companies create a single, mobile-friendly app that allows workers to access spreadsheets and documents from any device.

Wrapping up our list of the best startups in Y Combinator’s class of 2020, we've selected 5 startups from the batch that had the best business ideas and the best execution. (If you're curious, we'd recommend checking out the list of the top Y Combinator startups of 2019 here .)

A lightweight, secure, and encrypted VPN that works over cellular data and Wi-Fi.

A company that helps companies build a global presence for their products without having to hire overseas workers

A startup aiming to create an insurance program that helps small businesses with insurance costs. The startup currently has a grant from the National Science Foundation.

A company that helps make the hiring process easy by identifying which candidates are the best fit for a job.

A platform for landlords to manage their properties. It helps landlords organize their properties and take care of tenants.

A company that provides a service for businesses to be able to book private gigs with musicians, comedians, and artists.

A startup that works with farmers to easily track weather data and adjust their crops.

idea: A retail platform that helps brands and small retailers manage inventory and product pages across multiple sites. The startup helps brands manage product listings and marketing on a single user interface by combining real-time analytics and inventory management.

A thermometer that tells when your house is too cold or too hot.

A toolkit for software developers to build cloud-based websites or apps for their employees.

A platform that enables users to buy and sell tickets for events. The startup wants to make it easy to sell tickets for acts like musicians, DJs, comedians, etc.

This is a company that makes solar powered bike lights for cyclists to use on dark streets and trails.

A tool for employees to give feedback on their managers in real-time. The B2B business is meant to help companies recruit and train their employees better.

A startup for on-demand, personalized, restaurant recommendations. The startup plans to launch in the fall of 2019.

A startup that helps access control systems integrate with your smartphone. The startup, which was founded in June, is based in the DC area, and has already built a marketplace for hardware, and is working on an API to integrate the system into your phone.

A place for people of all faiths to come together and discuss religion, faith, and spirituality, without the judgment and stigma of the public sphere.

The platform is building a toolkit for designers to build custom user interfaces for their mobile apps.

A B2B startup that aims to provide a B2B version of Slack, which would allow companies to create channels for everything from HR to marketing. The startup is currently only in the pilot stage.

A food delivery service that uses a network of personal chefs to create a personalized meal based on the order. The startup has also launched a restaurant-delivery service that provides delivery 24/7.

A chatbot-based shopping assistant that helps people choose products based on their needs and wants.

A monthly subscription service for home laundry detergent that offers recommendations for how much to buy, when and how to use it. The startup has already sold more than $2 million in the past year from its first customers–with over 25,000 subscriptions.

The startup is working to connect people with mental health professionals through a mobile app.

A startup that makes deliveries like Amazon that come to your door via a private fleet of cars. GetGo is currently in San Francisco.

Helping small businesses create community-based, crowdsourced events that benefit all the attendees.

A startup that wants to make the process of bringing a new child into the world as seamless as possible.

A company that provides indoor voice commands for Amazon Echo or Echo Dot in the home, including turning on and off lights, opening doors, and playing music.

A platform for college financial aid, helping families track their student’s progress and figure out their eligibility.

A platform that helps connect investors with projects they can invest in.

A worker-owned cooperative based in DC that provides resources to low-income residents of DC, including health care and job training.

A social network for employees to connect with their company's customers through the company's own website.

A B2B software company that works with companies to manage their sizeable legacy software deployments across large numbers of systems. The startup wants to help companies take advantage of open source and cloud infrastructure to reduce costs and scale.

A startup for the intellectual property management industry.

A tool for understanding the human impact of a new product

A B2B company that aims to “democratize” the way companies get paid. The company wants to make accepting payments easier for small businesses and companies with irregular cash flows.

A platform for physical activities

This startup aims to “make data science a core competency for all public and private enterprises”, offering software and infrastructure.

A startup that provides an online marketplace for services that help to find apartments for people who would otherwise be homeless

A company that helps companies keep track of their employees’ performance and how it compares to the company’s goals.

A digital loyalty program for big-box retailers. The startup is building a rewards program for floor-based retailers like BestBuy.

A startup that helps streamline the process of finding people to hire for customer service, sales, and other roles at a startup.

The startup is creating “a new kind of content-sharing platform” in which users can “play with the latest games, movies, and TV shows”

A startup that helps you better manage your relationships on social networks.

A startup that makes it easy to follow the progress of people on your contact list.

A tool for sales reps that can push and apply discounts to customers even if they don’t have a card. The startup is partnered with Macy’s and Sephora.

A place for writers to connect and share their work with one another.

A startup that aims to give businesses a tool that allows them to turn their smartphones into an in-store point of sale

A mobile application that allows the user to create and share movement plans and trainings. The startup wants to help people share their workout plans with their friends, allowing them to track progress.

A financial services startup that helps companies and employees track their cash flow and financial status. The company is building a software platform that says can help companies manage their funds, from paying employees and issuing paychecks to buying inventory.

A team of Ph.D.s and VCs is building a new language for smart contracts, making it easier to write and read smart contracts that run on the Ethereum blockchain.

A niche mobile payment system for small businesses.

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A social network for women looking to connect with other women to chat, find jobs, and plan events.

A digital assistant for scheduling and delegating tasks to employees.

Helps restaurants automate ordering and delivery of food through a mobile app.

A startup that wants to use the power of the internet to sell and distribute books across the world.

This startup wants to help professionals manage their workload and collaborate with colleagues. It’s a tool that helps you set your priorities, and helps you delegate tasks.

This startup is trying to make it easier for small businesses to access capital. The company is building a marketplace where borrowers can connect with investors who are willing to invest small amounts of money in exchange for a higher return.

A platform that helps restaurant operators build and manage loyalty programs. The startup has already built out a marketplace to help restaurants sell gift cards and loyalty cards directly to consumers.

A platform that helps students find jobs, with a focus on students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields and veterans.

A platform that uses machine learning to automate the process of setting up and managing virtual desktops. The startup is currently in private beta, and the founders hope to soon release an open source product.

A startup that allows photographers to share their work easily and collaborate, with a focus on the travel photography world.

A platform that integrates with existing systems to give users a view into the costs of running their business.

A startup that builds “automated 360 degree feedback”, which is an online platform that collects and aggregates employee feedback, allowing companies to get a more accurate idea of what they’re doing right and what they need to improve.

Cloud-based software for hiring, training, and managing employees

This startup is building an automated sales tool that helps you find your most profitable deals, track their progress and communicate with vendors. The startup has two customers so far, but plans to launch in the San Francisco Bay Area in Q3.

A platform for recruiting drivers. The startup claims to have reduced turnover and increased productivity by 30 percent.

A software company that makes it easier for companies to automate their database management and scaling across multiple databases.

A company that sells low cost digital cameras to students, aiming to help them improve their photography.

A software startup that is building a platform for education to improve the quality of schools and the educational experience for students.

A startup that wants to help companies track new hires in order to make sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing.

A web-based platform for high school students to manage their academic progress and grades.

A platform that helps people get a computer for under $200. The startup has developed a tool that allows people to ask a computer what its components are, and then use its own parts database to compare prices at various online retailers.

A startup that provides tutoring for people who are looking to learn how to code who are looking to learn how to code

Software that can be used to make the most of data from your business intelligence software.

Idea: A B2B company that provides software to help freelancers and contractors in the US legally collect funds from employers.

A financial services company that provides loan payments and collection services. The startup is now profitable and has a $4.5 million valuation.

A Facebook app that compiles all your Facebook activity into one place.

A startup for people who want to donate their old home appliances, furniture, and other items for reuse. The startup says that in the US alone, more than 10 million items go unused in storage every year.

The startup is building a software suite to create and manage “interactive user interfaces”.

An online book-buying service that manages to sell books at a 25% discount, then refunds money to customers if the book doesn’t arrive on time.

A company that says it’s helping people get paid faster by taking on the “pain points” of legacy payment methods and automating them. The startup is building a payment platform that connects to any existing bank account and can be integrated with existing systems.

A company that provides data to help businesses make decisions. They’re particularly interested in the insurance sector, and are targeting “insurance executives who are looking to make data-based decisions in a cost-effective way”.

A $1 million prize for startups creating tools for early stage companies to manage their growth

A company that provides a remote team management service, helping companies manage their teams from anywhere, at any time.

A payments company that lets users of services like Stripe and PayPal process recurring payments like car insurance or mortgage payments in a few clicks. It has raised $2.9 million from investors including Y Combinator and is currently in private beta.

A company focused on corporate software for the cannabis industry. The founders say they’ve already secured $2m in funding.

A “hustle” for artists to get their work seen on platforms like Instagram.

A tool for businesses to manage their group fitness memberships, allowing businesses to offer group plans in a much more flexible way than the big vendors.

This startup is using blockchain to create a system for recording, managing and tracking all kinds of real-time data.

A health care company that makes it easier for patients to manage their health options. The startup has worked with large insurance companies and hospitals to build the platform.

A startup that will come to your home with a drone and take pictures of your house

A company that helps organizations comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A software company that helps companies better understand their customer data and make customer service more effective by starting with their customer journey.

A platform that offers users a “single source of truth” for their local market, helping them to build their own communities and find local products and services.

A patent-pending system that aims to give global companies access to the data of consumers who live in other countries.

Smartphone accessory that lets you put on another phone’s screen to give it the appearance of a bigger one.

An AI powered call center that promises to help businesses tackle customer service issues more effectively. The startup calls itself “the first AI-powered call center” and claims to be able to solve customer service issues more efficiently than humans. The startup is currently in closed beta in the US.

A tool for the legal cannabis industry to help dispensaries track and manage their inventory. The startup is also developing a web application for dispensaries to manage patient data.

A mobile app that lets you search for local entrepreneurs in your city to connect with and request help.

A startup that is helping banks build digital banking services for non-English speaking customers.

A pitch for a health insurance platform that enables users to use a smartphone to view their health data, make payments, and receive regular communications from a doctor.

A technology that helps people in the developing world make full-time travel arrangements for work-related trips.

A mini-storage startup that rents out small lockers, intended to be a more affordable alternative to larger storage units.

A way to securely send data from iOS devices to the cloud. The startup claims to be the only secure messaging service that can do this.

A tool for sharing and tracking your workouts

The online platform for signing up for U.S. green cards.

This is a startup that wants to help companies capture and make money from the data generated on their websites. It’s a software that helps companies gather data about their customers and then deploy a service to make money from that information.

The startup aims to help companies boost their sales through email marketing.

We want to let people organize their photos and videos as easily as they organize their text messages. We’re building a photo management app that’s simple and easy to use, and we’ll be selling our own photo storage product through the app.

A startup that wants to help HR executives and their teams manage and track all expenses for their company.

A personal finance and credit management platform

A platform that facilitates local sales of used clothing. It allows users to post their items, and then lets a user who is looking to purchase an item find an appropriate buyer.

A platform that allows companies to better manage their assets and reduce costs and risks

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

A tool for pairing workplaces with skilled tradesmen.

A startup focused on the development of mobile apps, with an emphasis on gaming.

This is a startup that’s giving companies a way to manage their own data centers and improve the security and reliability of their IT networks by managing their power and cooling infrastructure. The company charges $1 per user per month for the service.

A company that helps landlords with tools that allow them to quickly find and vet potential tenants.

A startup that wants to help you manage your money by automating your investing and investing in index funds.

A software company that helps retailers track the items in their inventory and automatically ship orders.

A platform that allows clients to have their attorneys communicate with their doctors to get answers to medical questions.

The app helps find the cheapest gas station in a given area. The service is built on the idea that gas is perishable, and stations need to be re-stocked as often as possible.

A tool to track and visualize a person’s social media activity. It’s a hit with marketers who want to see the impact of their social media campaigns.

A company that wants to solve a problem for small businesses: they’re struggling to get their customers to pay. Shopin makes it easier to create a loyalty scheme for their customers by helping them create a personal account and tie it to their business account. Shopin also has a small business version that can help businesses combine rewards programs from multiple platforms into one.

WorkWeek is a robo-advisor for freelancers, offering asset management and tax services for small business owners.

A social network for women that encourages them to share and connect.

An AI-powered platform that uses machine learning to help employees get the most out of their time.

A startup that’s building a chat-based platform for small businesses. Its platform is similar to Facebook Messenger, with the ability to chat with employees and customers.

The startup has raised over $2.5 million to date. New York-based

A startup that allows you to grow a whole portfolio of assets with one purchase, such as a website, business card, email, etc. The startup allows users to mix and match different products to create a single portfolio, while driving down the cost of all of them.

A project management and collaboration platform for teams organized around the creation of online content.

A company that offers to help companies with their digital marketing. The company says they have $10 million in monthly recurring revenue.

A startup that lets users create a database of their home inventory so they can easily sell their home if they need to move

A startup that helps you learn how to do things like sign a contract, write a thesis, and fundraise on Kickstarter.

A startup that’s building a platform that lets people connect to local artisans, which it uses to sell their products. It has a Slack channel for vendors, and will be launching a “shop local” app in partnership with local government in September.

A startup that wants to help you streamline your payroll process by connecting your team directly to your HR team.

A platform to help find the best match for you while in college.

A startup with a proprietary AI platform that helps applications with a heavy computational load run faster.

A startup that is building a SaaS platform for young people to find jobs on college campuses. The company is using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to help students and employers connect.

A startup that aggregates offline data on a device and allows it to be accessed by other applications.

A startup that uses machine learning to help people build their own personalized itineraries. The company's founders say they have a lot of B2B customers. They currently have a few hundred paying customers.

A company making a “smart” dryer, with an internet-connected app that helps users set the temperature on their washing machine and adjust the duration of the dryer cycle.

A hospital-based startup working with hospitals to implement new technologies in the emergency room.

Idea: An online platform for verifying resumes for job-seekers The startup is working with employers like Microsoft, with plans to expand to the finance, health, and education sectors

A platform that helps people migrate their sites from Tumblr to Squarespace.

A cloud-based IT services company that provides managed cloud services to businesses. The company has $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue, according to the founder.

A startup for the sale of used cars, which is designed to be faster, cheaper, and easier than dealerships.

The startup, which was founded in June, wants to help manufacturers scale up their production of custom items quickly and easily.

This startup is working on a way to help users create a chat bot in minutes through a simple, drag-and-drop interface.

A tool to help developers create interactive widgets that can be attached to emails, much like you can add a “Get Your Quote” button to an email.

A startup that’s building a “self-serve” payment system for restaurants. It’s a product of the food-tech world, with the goal of streamlining the process of paying for orders.

A platform for market research firms to buy data from customers in order to improve their products.

A startup that helps employers find employees who are fluent in another language

A startup that connects customers looking for a new car with dealerships.

A startup building a platform for users to buy and sell anything from used cars to timeshares.

A platform for storing and sharing user-generated content, designed for use with Twitch and YouTube.

is a new startup that wants to help HR departments keep track of employee performance. The company has raised $7 million in Series A funding from investors like Accel, Founders Co-op, The Battery Ventures, and others.

It’s an AI-powered app that lets you make low-cost, sustainable, end-to-end custom versions of your favorite products at home.

A startup for hotels to receive guest reviews. It allows hotels to easily build a phone application that allows guests to submit feedback. It’s also a way for hotels to tap into a big, untapped market of millennials who like to review things on their phones.

A blockchain startup developing a “decentralized protocol for recording and verifying the provenance of natural resources”.

A 3D printing service for the travel industry, with a focus on “bringing the benefits of manufacturing to the global travel industry”, with a focus on the hospitality and tourism sector.

A startup building systems for the cloud-based network for manufacturers. It wants to build out a network for manufacturers to sell products to customers, with the system using the “blockchain” for recording transactions.

The startup wants to build a platform for artificial intelligence developers and designers.

A platform that helps hospitals and labs design and manage patient schedules. They’re looking to bring together patients, doctors, and other healthcare professionals to improve care.

A SaaS service that allows people to see what others are reading, or what they’ve recommended.

This startup is building a digital library of German language learning resources for adults.

This YC-backed startup is building a tool that helps people find and hire remote workers, who can bring their own laptops to work.

A fintech for loans in Kenya, which is working on a product for the first time.

A company that makes clothes that are made from yarn instead of cotton to help save the environment.

A startup that helps retailers manage inventory, increasing efficiencies and making more money.

A startup that looks to make it easier for people to communicate with their doctors. It’s a service for people who want to answer questions about their health without having to make an appointment.

An online platform that helps students get into college by providing information about scholarships, programs and financial aid.

A mobile-only bank account for Brazil. A tiered account that allows individuals to pay bills and receive transfers.

A startup that provides the infrastructure “to build and scale simple, automated, and scalable apps built on top of the open source Git version control system.”

A B2B company that connects startups to investors, providing them with funding and other services.

In 2016, SVFI raised $3.6 million from several prominent investors, including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and Lux Capital.

A startup that helps people who are applying for visas get into the country quickly

This is a service for the social media influencer market. It lets influencers promote brands without the need for retailers to ship products to them or pay for advertising. It’s similar to Influential, though it appears to have fewer influencers on its platform.

A Paris-based digital marketplace for people who want to sell their unused items.

A tool to help event organizers attract more attendees and better manage their finances, with features like real-time ticket sales, revenue data, and expense reports.

A group messaging app that gives users of all ages the ability to text and call their friends, including the elderly and the disabled.

A tool for “geocaching” that helps hides be found.

A startup in China that’s building a tool for insurance companies to collect and track customer feedback by sending surveys to their customers.

A platform for people in countries with oppressive governments to buy digital encryption and anonymous browsing tools.

Builds a platform that enables people to build their own apartments and sell them to renters.

A digital notebook app that lets you create and edit text, images, video, and sketches. It uses AI to help you produce better content.

A startup that provides software that helps people with their taxes so they don’t have to pay a tax preparer

On-demand voice-activated laundry.

Trunkable wants to build a web-based home that can be rented as a vacation home.

A startup that has built an app for companies to manage remote workers. It works as a virtual call center. The client can choose to pay the workers via a direct deposit or via their bank account. The startup says that their product is like a landline, meaning that a worker can use it even if their employer doesn’t pay for the service.

An AI-based matchmaking system that pairs job seekers with employers.

A safety app that connects with a user’s Fitbit to keep track of their daily steps, logging them to the company’s private cloud and sending the information to their employer.

New startups are always looking for ways to make their products more attractive to investors. This startup is trying to make the process of hiring an investor easier.

A way to handle invoices for companies based in India.

A platform that helps users monetize the data they collect from their fitness tracking devices.

A company that helps people accept payments in exchange for a good or service. It’s a subscription model that offers services like video conferencing and virtual assistants.

A health and safety service for construction workers

This Brazilian startup is building a tool that helps make B2B sales more efficient. It’s an app that helps sales teams automate parts of the sales process.

A tool for booking meetings in person or on the phone.

API that helps businesses automate the process of creating new ads, which they say can be expensive, time consuming, and tedious. The API automates the process of creating new ads, which they say can be expensive, time consuming, and tedious.

This startup wants to turn food waste into a commodity. It is developing a process to turn used food into a liquid waste product for use as a fertilizer for farmers.

A startup that offers entrepreneurs support and advice on their business idea in the form of a “venture coach”. They’re working on a way that their coaches can help entrepreneurs with their projects from anywhere in the world.

A tool that helps you track where your clothes are and how they’re wearing.

A media company that provides videos for doctors on evidence-based medicine, and for patients on everything from how to take their diabetes medication to how to use a wheelchair.

A digital assistant, currently focused on helping entrepreneurs plan events and prioritize tasks.

A startup that uses AI to help companies understand the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns, and change them accordingly.

This startup is building a tool for hiring talent for specific roles, rather than just hiring across a wide range of positions.

A project management software company, focused on improving the workflows of design teams.

A platform geared toward helping restaurants build out their delivery infrastructure.

A startup that helps people track the progress of their projects; it wants to be the go-to app for everyone from athletes to artists.

A data analytics and reporting platform for health care providers, with a focus on the emergency departments of hospitals. The startup wants to help solve the problem of “beds full of patients who have no one to talk to about their condition,” according to CEO Ken Dang.

This startup is building a new kind of network for startups, one that allows them to share their financial data, such as their expenses, with other investors. In the past six months, the startup has raised $3 million from investors.

A startup that wants to make it easier to share your training courses with the world, giving them a way to host and distribute training courses to a global audience

A last-mile delivery service for restaurants. The startup's founders say food deliveries are a $21 billion market and it's growing 15-20% per year.

A company that helps people learn the principles of successful investing by using stock market data to simulate trading.

A startup that will tell you how much water a plant needs, and how often

A SaaS platform for job boards that connects job boards to job seekers, with an API for employers to use. The startup is looking to raise a maximum of $1.9 million from angel investors.

A startup that lets people sell their old smartphones for cash. It has processed over 10,000 phones since it launched in April.

A startup that wants to make credit card checks less expensive and more accurate by automating the process with artificial intelligence.

A plan for a shared medical app for remote medical professionals to collaborate on patient care.

A business that helps folks with disabilities file for disability benefits and receive a payment.

A new startup that wants to take the same data-mining modeling that drives some of the world’s biggest hedge funds and apply it to the world of investing in art. The company wants to help savvy investors find the next big thing in art.

A company that wants to help event planners create and manage event registries using a web-based tool.

A platform that helps entrepreneurs build their own video games. The startup wants to help game developers build games with more engagement on social media by creating a platform that allows game developers to create games that have things like virtual currency, virtual goods, and virtual environments.

A startup that helps pharmacy owners automate their drug dispensing and billing processes.

A way for employees to get paid to take vacation

A SaaS platform that allows users to create videos for their businesses. The platform makes it easy for businesses to design, edit, and publish their videos.

A tool to help you make music from a series of notes without actually playing them.

A startup that’s building a service to help hedge fund clients make better decisions by providing active asset allocation models.

A tool for agencies, consultants and freelancers to manage their clients and deals, and to get paid

A $100 million investment fund for startups.

A platform that offers users a “single source of truth” for their local market, helping them to build their own communities and find local products and services.

A company that creates custom-designed, pre-packaged, monthly subscription boxes of healthy snacks. The boxes are meant to be tasty, portable, and affordable, but also good for you. Customers can customize their boxes with additional ingredients, and can track their consumption on a website. The boxes are available on subscription, as well as individually.

A tool for help with self-promotion and capturing content content on social sites.

A $100 million startup that works with “large group of healthcare providers” to offer direct-to-consumer health insurance.

A company that makes customized, local, dog treat recipes. The startup is making a recipe book for pet owners.

An online payment platform that lets people pay their friends through Venmo. Payalu is backed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and others.

A company building a social media service that brings the power of a highly engaged Facebook group to a brand’s Facebook page.

A tool for launching crowdfunding campaigns.

A startup to help people make money by turning their run-down car into

This startup wants to improve the impact of school-based violence prevention programs.

A technology that allows you to receive a text message with a code that lets you know when your package has arrived. It’s similar to the Amazon Prime Now service, but for local stores.

A tool for artists, record labels, and venues to find out how to better monetize their content, whether it’s a song, a TV show, or an event.

A startup that helps hospitals create secure software for their staff to access the medical records of patients. The startup has already partnered with hospitals in the U.S. and India.

A startup that helps small businesses get smart about their marketing with a suite of tools. The company says it has more than 5,000 paying customers in the US.

A platform that enables people to pay their bill online, skipping the need to go to the store to pay.

A tech startup that wants to pick up where USAA left off.

Espresso is a software company that uses machine learning to automate the process of hiring telecommuters in the US, using a platform that was built specifically for this.

A search engine for things that have been read. The company’s co-founder was a former search engine developer who was frustrated with the state of the industry.

eMailmerge is a “content management system for email and documents”.

A tool that helps companies track non-employee contractors with a single platform, replacing hundreds of spreadsheets.

A startup that provides a service where people who are interested in buying a home can hire someone to walk through homes that are for sale to tell them if they’re a good fit

This startup is building a “mobile-first” scheduling tool for small to mid-sized businesses.

A startup that makes a tool allowing any organization to track their contributors and payments in real-time. The startup is currently focusing on helping NGOs track the status of their contributions.

A human-powered logistics startup that helps companies, and especially retailers, get products from suppliers to customers.

A startup that connects patients with doctors via webcam and phone. It’s currently in beta and has 4,000 users.

A health insurance platform that uses blockchain to provide worldwide health insurance, allowing consumers to cover themselves with a single app.

A crowdsourced platform for companies and individuals to network and find leads.

A startup that helps you manage your morning routine. The app, which was launched in October, allows users to set daily routines that they can then share with friends or colleagues. With a daily routine, users can plan their day based on when they will be most productive, helping to keep their productivity levels up.

A company that makes it easy for startups to sell online. The startup is offering free service to startups for one year in exchange for equity.

The leader in providing the most accurate way to measure real estate in the US, this startup is working on new tools to help people analyze the real estate market.

A project management platform: “Many small businesses are managing their projects themselves,” said CEO Ben. “We want to help them have access to the same data and value proposition that large companies have.”

A logistics platform that allows shippers to post jobs, set rates, manage their accounts, and track shipments.

A product management toolkit for companies to support their small business development efforts.

“A platform that connects people with the power of AI to help them understand their financial position in real time.” The startup wants to help users make smarter financial decisions.

A startup that builds software for financial advisors to give them visibility into how their clients are doing.

A startup that connects customers with their local locksmiths via text message, with the startup taking a cut of each transaction.

A startup that helps users find and book local services like house cleaning or pet sitting.

The startup is building a platform for allowing organizations to crowdsource ideas for products and services, and to get feedback from customers.

A platform that allows users to buy and sell gift cards to other users, using the same system that goes into buying Spotify or Netflix gift cards.

A startup that provides consulting to help people with Asperger’s syndrome interact with others

A platform for digital content creators to manage their careers.

A software company that helps brands with crisis management. They want to simplify crisis communication through their application, which allows users to create a plan of action, rally staff, and engage with customers.

A tool to help people make a living using their talents. They have $2,000 in monthly revenue.

A company that helps stores manage their supply chain, keeping them from wasting money and time on inventory.

A tool for agencies, consultants and freelancers to manage their clients and deals, and to get paid

A digital-first finance company with a trading platform that lets investors share portfolios across accounts and invest using multiple currencies. The startup wants to compete with traditional brokerages by using a similar toolset.

A startup that optimizes networks for video content delivery. The company is building tools for ISPs to deliver videos faster, enabling them to deliver HD video to more people.

A social network for the humanitarian sector, not unlike Care2 but more focused on the humanitarian side of things like conflict zones, refugees and the like.

A bid management tool for the hospitality industry to help hotels, event venues and attractions manage their bids to attract customers.

A company that is building a platform to help restaurant owners and workers manage logistics and inventory. The startup’s founders say their focus is on reducing waste.

A tool that helps companies identify and remove fraudulent or duplicate online leads.

A software company that makes its product in India, and sells it globally.

A B2B service for CRM, with plans to expand to other businesses in different verticals.

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

Great for users who want to maintain a network of family and friends, this startup is trying to build a system that analyzes text messages and sends push-notifications when your friends are nearby. The startup is in the early stages of development, but their team has already been working on the product for a year.

A company that helps small businesses build an online presence. They’re already working with a few small businesses who want to launch an online presence.

A social network for the furry community, owned by the same company as Fur Affinity.

A dating app for people who want to have casual sex, focused on avoiding pressure from other users. The app is meant to be a safe place for people who want to do something that’s not going to last.

With the app and website, users can select a package that fits their needs and then buy the package by clicking a button and the platform will automatically calculate the total cost for them.

Founded by two former Googlers in 2012, Giphy is a video search engine that helps users find content to animate GIFs from online videos.

A software company that helps companies manage their finance, inventory, and other business operations. The startup plans to open up to new markets and get into more verticals in 2018.

A new way to pay for things you buy online, with a twist: You can get discounts for paying with a certain amount of money.

A crowdfunding platform for people who have been denied loans from banks.

A company that makes reusable plastic shopping bags that are 100% compostable.

It’s a mobile app that helps people with their workouts, tracking their progress and helping them set plans and goals.

A startup that makes a high-tech paper tablecloth that can be used to protect a dining room table and also to track how often a table is used.

A tool for entrepreneurs to manage all of the legal, sales, and accounting documents for their company.

A digital tool that helps retailers navigate the price-off-requesting supply chain of their product.

This startup is building a toolset that helps cities and counties track and manage construction projects.

Web-based software that gives restaurants a way to track guests from table to table, and find out how much money they spend.

Ecommerce for the sharing economy, with an internal marketplace for tasks like dog walking and house cleaning, and an external marketplace for things like carpooling or Lyft, Uber or Lyft integration.

A tool for helping people build a personalized fitness plan and stay on track with a fitness coach.

A bridge between the two worlds of professional and amateur soccer.

A digital asset management tool that automates accounting and audit for startups and small businesses.

This startup allows businesses to track their online/social media marketing, and also offers a way to get promoted for sharing interesting content.

A tool to help your employees get paid faster, with 30,000 businesses working with it already.

A subscription-based business that connects customers with home health care providers.

A tool that helps users know how much they’re spending on their phone bill.

An HR solution for small businesses, connecting to different HR systems, providing the right employee information, and sharing all of company data.

A company that helps people buy and sell things on the internet. The startup wants to create a marketplace to help people buy and sell things faster and easier, without the middleman.

A startup that is working to build a feedback loop between brands, consumers, and studios. The startup is looking to create a new kind of “collective” that works to pull in creators, viewers, and brands while also establishing a new model for how creators are paid.

A search engine for mobile phone numbers with features like call forwarding.

A group chat app for real estate agents that allows them to quickly chat in groups about listings, compare notes on listings, and even set up meetings in the same app.

A tool for people in need of homeownership financing with access to traditional lenders.

A SaaS that helps artists sell their work directly to consumers in a way that’s more efficient than selling through a gallery or commercial gallery.

A company that offers a tool to help companies send out “sales quotas”

A SaaS product that helps SMBs automate their invoicing, with an emphasis on making it easier to send invoices.

A company that offers a mobile app that allows users to order meals from local restaurants, or request that one be delivered to them.

Being a photographer is a full-time job, and the photos you take often end up in a gallery or on someone’s Instagram for a few hours before disappearing. But with this startup, you can make money from those screenshots and still get paid for them after.

A cloud-based platform for home-surveillance systems built on personal computers.

A platform for managing your personal finances, combining features like bill-pay, savings, and investments, in one place.

A new set of tools for developers to build and host their apps.

A startup that wants to trip up criminals on the dark web with its browser extensions, which will show you where the site is hosted and how secure it is.

A legally binding contract between a party and a group of people that has a set of terms to comply with the contract. The company plans to build the first “legal” app in the US.

One of the most popular ways to stay in touch with friends and family has to be through text messages. The company wants to build a texting platform that is both secured and private.

A company that provides a visual platform to visually track and visualize data to help companies ensure their processes are efficient.

A startup that helps music producers create custom soundtracks for commercials and television.

A gamified platform for remote employees, enabling companies to manage their systems through gamification.

Pivot is building a backend system for companies to track and manage digital marketing campaigns.

A platform to help retailers sell their products. The startup recently launched a “marketplace” where it displays products from different retailers that it has teamed up with on a branded storefront.

A startup for movie scripts. It lets users browse and comment on scripts, and the startup says it’s already had over 40,000 scripts submitted.

A startup that focuses on bringing school supplies and other essentials to kids in developing countries.

A sensor for measuring sweat and moisture in the clothing of people who are active. The startup, founded in January, wants to create a product that will help people get more out of their workout, helping them analyze their body’s performance and also offer a tool for people to compete with others in the same workout.

Fetch is a platform for food delivery. Unlike Grubhub, Fetch offers more than just food delivery. The startup is using the same data it collects on its deliveries to help restaurants build better menus and make food-ordering easier.

A startup that bills itself as the “Uber for teachers”.

This company, which was founded in 2015, helps companies hire workers in the Philippines. It uses a mobile app to connect recruiters with workers and to manage the work itself.

A startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to build their own online store. Instead of a lengthy process of building an e-commerce site themselves, the startup will make it easy for a business to buy in to a pre-built site.

The company is building a digital marketplace for people who want to buy and sell their used goods at wholesale. The company is focusing on the US but they plan to launch internationally.

A way to share inventory with nearby retailers, allowing them to buy and sell in a frictionless way.

This startup is building a way to create virtual reality experiences for brands, using a technology called “phantom display”.

A company that wants to help companies and their employees work together after hours, whether that’s an early morning meeting or a weeknight hack.

An investment platform for early stage startups, which helps them raise capital from angels, VCs and other investors.

A company that helps artists and designers build and manage their online presences and businesses.

A tool for small-to-medium sized businesses to manage the reception of new hires or hires leaving, ideally for less than $10 per month. It’s currently in a beta rollout.

A suite of tools for managing contracts, from contracts to invoices, budgeting to payments.

An API and API wrapper that makes it easier to integrate third-party apps and services. This has been downloaded over 100,000 times.

A startup in the UK that is building a way for companies to sell and buy spare parts from one another.

A company that makes and sells eco-friendly products to raise awareness of water scarcity and climate change.

This startup is building a tool for talent acquisition. Instead of being on the phone with call centers, an employee can upload their resume, answer a few questions, and be matched with a hiring manager.

A landing page builder for agencies, which means that if you’re an agency, you can build your own landing page, or build a landing page for a client.

A platform that makes it easier for consumers to buy gift cards online. The startup will also partner with retailers to create in-store mobile ordering apps.

A startup that helps companies make their salespeople more efficient. First, they build a sales enablement platform that helps salespeople process leads, and then they train salespeople to make use of it.

A startup focused on the development of mobile apps, with an emphasis on gaming.

A local commerce startup that wants to help local retailers and restaurants sell directly to consumers with a marketplace app.

A platform to help owners of small agencies and freelancers get paid faster. Y Combinator-backed startup that’s already working with some of the biggest names in media.

A digital payment platform designed to allow any company to accept payments on their website.

Using a bevy of different marketing channels to find the right customers, including email, Facebook and Google Adwords. The startup also pitches that it can offer a customized solution based on a person’s specific needs.

Pembleton is a startup that offers a “digestible” social media management service to small businesses.

The leader in U.S. patent litigation,

A product that helps consumers get a clear perspective on their finances

A tool to help companies estimate the time it will take to complete software development projects. Currently only for-profit SaaS companies, the startup wants to expand into the nonprofit and hardware sectors in the future.

This startup is looking to create a digital tool that allows people to make and manage their own legal agreements, aiming to improve efficiency, and making the legal process faster and more accessible.

The startup wants to use a combination of machine learning and data science to figure out a person's biological age based on a series of scans and measurements. The projections are meant to help people decide what to do with their retirement.

A startup that provides a “human-centric” wellness program that connects patients with care professionals in the form of video chats.

A startup that wants to bring Facebook Messenger-style voice calling to the desktop.

A tool that helps you get the best possible price on a plane ticket. The company is aiming to "make a commission on every transaction."

A platform for the creation of community-driven training videos.

A tool for remote teams to manage their expenses, take care of taxes and project expenses.

A company that helps consumers buy more from Amazon.com with the help of a digital assistant housed on a smartphone.

A phone-based chatbot that helps you figure out which of your emails you can toss without feeling guilty.

A college prep app for high schoolers.

A platform for sharing and protecting your research when you’re writing a paper.

A startup that gives businesses access to engineers to build custom software for their needs.

A startup that makes a platform for people to review freelance work, both on a community level as well as individuals.

Idea: Automate Admissions at top Entrepreneurial Universities

A startup that helps employees scan and organize their company’s medical data. The startup also created a tool to help admins manage their health data.

A startup that makes it easier for software developers to debug their code and fix bugs in their applications.

A startup that lets you upload your pictures and videos and arrange them in easy-to-use slideshows for your friends and family.

A platform for building and selling online courses. Anchor University is a platform for instructors to collect payments for their online course content. It’s currently in Y Combinator, which has over $2.5M in revenue and has over 4,000 seats booked.

A startup seeking to raise $150,000 to begin developing a platform that tracks how a business uses their social media and how it affects sales.

A platform that allows users to instantly create interactive content, like quizzes or games, using AI

A startup based in India that helps people in the US get better access to medical care abroad

This is a B2B startup that helps hospitals and doctors manage and share patient data. It’s aimed at doctors and hospitals that want to use data to make better treatment decisions, and aims to be a “single source of truth” for that data.

A tool to help create video magic effects like fire effects and text on images. The startup wants to enable content creators to create better results with more limited tools.

The startup is building a “mesh” of a microgrid. Microgrids are local electricity grids that can re-route power, and as such are an effective tool for disaster recovery.

A way to enable co-working spaces with a layer of social data

A new financial technology company that’s building a software platform that allows anyone to invest in a new business.

A tool that enables design teams to build websites and apps without worrying about the backend.

A web app that uses artificial intelligence to create real-time, personalized marketing campaigns.

A tool that connects people who are in the same neighborhood, giving them the ability to communicate, socialize, and share their location.

A web-based HR software platform for employers, providing a suite of HR processes, including hiring, onboarding, and training.

A startup in the UK that is building a way for companies to sell and buy spare parts from one another.

A company that makes a “smart” computer that can be programmed to watch for health alerts in real time. The startup wants to use the “watch” feature to alert doctors to any health issues, and then streamline the diagnostic process.

A mobile app that helps you find the best deals on local goods and services, with an emphasis on the impact of adding an ethical component to the economy.

A startup that helps arbitrage traders figure out where in the world to invest. The startup is backed by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, who invested in the company’s seed round in November 2018.

A platform that analyzes credit card data to help you improve your credit score.

A startup that helps doctors create their own patient portals, with patient data stored in a secure environment.

A platform for sharing and monetizing video. The startup’s goal is to apply the videos of YouTube stars to the video game and movie industries.

A program, with a small loan, that helps artists create and exhibit work, and then market them to a larger audience.

A micro-insurance platform for the Southeast Asian market that wants to make sure that medical expenses, trips, and other events are covered.

This platform helps tech companies that would like to sell software as a service (SaaS) to clients. The platform allows for businesses to reach their clients directly, and also helps them understand how much money their clients are spending on software.

This is a “mashup of digital marketing, customer service, and product management” app. It’s looking to replicate the experience of a digital agency, and is pitching it as a “digital assistant” to help consumer brands.

When your friends start complaining that their friends aren’t getting in on the next big trend, you can introduce them to the startup that wants to buy and sell that trend. The startup helps you snap up the next big thing before your friends, claiming to have over 100,000 traders in its platform.

This is an app that helps fans book concert tickets. FanBridge helps match fans with the artists they want to see, then book tickets and credit cards for the show.

A platform for managing and building websites, using either HTML or CSS. They work with clients to build out the theme, menu, and navigation, and they then deploy it to the client.

A platform for checking the health of a person’s gut and soon their overall health.

A startup that wants to make it easier to pay bills online by making it easy to access the information they need. It’s a bit like Bill.com and a bit like Mint.com.

A software suite with a native app on iOS and Android. It helps restaurants manage their restaurant operations such as food preparation, ordering, scheduling and ordering.

This company is building a pipeline connecting the cities that are most in need of food. The company says that it’s selling a food and water delivery system that is working in 12 US cities, and is now looking to expand to China and the Indian Subcontinent.

A platform for managing hardware and software settings, and making it easier to manage settings using a simple interface.

A startup that wants to help retailers and brands find new customers by taking their email lists and feeding them into an algorithm that matches them with potential customers.

A “mobile-first” enterprise app for managing business travel.

A SaaS platform for companies that helps them with the process of creating and managing their brands, from digital marketing to corporate identity to customer service.

A platform that connects businesses with data science resources in a way that makes it easy to collaborate and get work done. The company also plans to launch a consumer app that will allow customers to sign up for machine learning-based advice.

A software development platform for custom software that helps companies get software built faster.

A company that helps you build a better mousetrap.

A tool for allowing companies to sell directly to visitors to their website.

A tool for invoice verification for subscription services.

A web-based platform for freelance writers to get paid for the content they create.

A startup working on a way to help retailers track their inventory and employees, which can be applied to other industries as well. They’re looking for $30,000 in seed funding.

Video chat for students, with an emphasis on video quality and an option for students to get reimbursed for video-calling.

A conferencing app that connects people in real time. It’s already in beta with over 5,000 users.

A SaaS platform for restaurants that helps restaurant teams manage their ordering, delivery, and payroll operations. The startup was recently acquired by Groupon.

A company that provides apps for the healthcare industry, to help doctors and nurses be more efficient. The platform includes apps like digital medical records, electronic health records, patient education, and clinical documentation.

A B2B company that will let partners buy customized “cotton candy”-like candy for their clients. The cotton candy is made from the same ingredients as a standard candy, but with a variety of colors and flavors.

This is a photo sharing app that lets you send your friends a “snapshot” of whatever you’re looking at. The startup monetizes via selling advertisers the ability to target specific geographic areas or high-traffic areas.

A “one-button sale” platform for e-commerce businesses that wants to make online orders as easy as “buy now”.

A startup that offers a way to hire freelance programmers.

A “SingTel Moments” app that lets groups of people share photos, videos and text and then customize the product with different filters.

A startup that wants to change the way dental professionals communicate — by giving them a shared, secure messaging platform where they can communicate confidentially.

A company that says it helps teams collaborate better by combining the project management and collaboration tools found on Slack and Trello into one. They’re currently selling a $50 per month plan.

This is a platform for building apps that can interface with your fitness tracker.

A point-of-sale application for restaurants, allowing them to accept payments online and mobile.

A way for the user to design and customize his or her own Lego creation.

The startup’s mission is to “solve the nightmare of finding a restaurant with food you love”.

A company that makes it easier for smaller businesses to get online by connecting them with a network of vendors and insights from the business community.

A startup that helps retailers “find the right kind of people to hire” for their stores. The startup is also building out a talent platform for retailers using job data from LinkedIn to help them find the right people to hire.

A platform to manage, organize, and share digital assets.

A startup that helps companies find candidates for open positions quickly and easily.

A help desk and service management tool for users of the internet of things. The startup is building its service management tool on top of Xively, the IoT standards and toolset that drives a variety of connected products.

Using AI technology, the startup is building a system that lets companies predict software bugs using machine learning.

A company that helps colleges with their insurance needs

A startup that helps your car know that you’re driving it, and save you money on gas.

A company that helps people around the world make online donations to charities

A mobile app that focuses on the experience of the user, instead of the device.

A way to get a loan in 1 hour with as little paperwork as possible.

A platform for focused collaboration between teams to make decisions faster.

A data analytics company that wants to crack the code on how to use data science to identify influencers in social media.

A startup for Uber drivers, offering them tools to make their job easier.

A company that helps small businesses create a website and marketing materials. They have a few clients now, all of whom are on the verge of being acquired by a bigger company.

A startup that helps women and men work together to grow their careers, by helping them find each others’ LinkedIn connections.

A mobile game that teaches kids about the world.

A startup that provides tools for fashion brand managers reviewing their own website performance and getting analytics from Google Analytics.

A startup that’s building a mobile app that lets you rent out your spare room on Airbnb.

A digital platform that helps companies with everything from marketing to sales, with a view to helping it evolve into a full-service marketing agency.

A mobile app that helps users make healthier food choices by providing a basic food nutritional value guide and suggested meal options.

A global payments platform, SendFriend is a virtual bank account and payments platform that allows users to purchase goods and services without a bank account. It’s similar to TransferWise but with a focus on emerging markets.

Marketplace for home repair, including licensed contractors.

A startup that aims to connect investors to mutual funds. The company wants to make investing more accessible to people who don’t have a lot of assets.

A chat platform that connects you to your friends’ friends who can help you find a job, buy a house, or get an apartment. The platform is meant to help with big life decisions like these.

A simple method to avoid the hassle of making cold calls to candidates and instead let a company’s own hiring managers and recruiters interview candidates.

The leader in providing the most accurate way to measure real estate in the US, this startup is working on new tools to help people analyze the real estate market.

The startup is building a “social network of experience” that is meant to be the next-generation of Facebook and Instagram.

A company that helps employees and managers communicate with each other through text messages. It’s a mobile application that ties into a company’s existing communication system to send and receive messages, and also syncs with a company’s calendar and contacts.

A tool that lets you connect to the data in your existing spreadsheets and make them read like a novel. Convert your spreadsheets into a novel.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to offer paid vacation time to their employees. It has funding from an angel group including Y Combinator alum Jonah Peretti.

A product for education companies that helps them connect through online training programs. It’s used by companies including Whole Foods, Warner Brothers, and the United Way.

What is it: An AI-powered HR tech company, with the CEO saying it’s “the future of HR tech.”

A startup that plans to build a platform that allows businesses to create and sell their own “masterpieces”, with a focus on high-end jewelry and similar items.

A startup that helps employers build “vacation-ready” employee benefits.

A platform that matches people looking for work with freelancers

A SaaS platform that helps companies create, manage, and get feedback on their campaigns. It’s currently being used for over 100 campaigns, raised over $30 million in funding, and the founders have spent over a year building it.

A startup that helps people on crowd-funding platforms avoid scammers

A startup for providing a stable of freelance workers who can do things like data entry, research, or video.

A hardware startup that allows you to make your own Bluetooth earbuds.

P2P insurance for small businesses, which claims to be able to get the same coverage at lower rates than insurance provided by large companies. The startup plans to provide coverage to half a million businesses in its first three years.

A platform for running distributed IoT applications

A location-based service for turning people into mobile baristas

A company that helps companies and employees find relevant jobs. The startup provides a job posting platform to help people find jobs, and has raised $500,000 from investors including Y Combinator.

This startup wants to use blockchain to help people get free school supplies, food, and health care.

A company making an AI-powered HR assistant that learns from employees and helps them work better. The startup was recently acquired by a bigger startup called TalentBin.

A SaaS solution that helps companies manage the customer experience for two-way video calls.

A company that makes a “smart” computer that can be programmed to watch for health alerts in real time. The startup wants to use the “watch” feature to alert doctors to any health issues, and then streamline the diagnostic process.

A web service that provides pre-made email templates for various types of legal contracts. The idea is that if you’re an attorney, you can easily draft a document for a client.

An open-source platform and data storage for enterprise use

Idea: A startup that is building an “A/B testing for infrastructure” tool to help companies test their cloud setups, security, and performance.

A platform that lets you build data visualizations in 10 minutes or less.

A company that builds software for mobile app developers. The company has worked with companies like Warby Parker, Kobo, and Maker Studios.

The startup wants to bring on-demand personal chef services to the home. The company is looking to use a similar model to that utilized by Uber, with the chef being independent contractors who deliver food to the customer.

A mobile app that helps customers make their own personalized financial plans.

This company offers a service designed to help companies keep track of the millions of products they sell every year.

A startup that provides a convenient way for property owners to rent out their homes on a short-term basis

A startup that wants to give people more control over their data by letting them store it on their own USB drives

A tool for companies to execute marketing campaigns in an automated fashion, with the ability to tell the marketing department what to do and what to ignore when it comes to email program design. Idea is also originally a software company, but now a marketing software company.

A platform that makes it easy for people to find new jobs and internships, connecting employers and job seekers through the use of social networks.

A startup for data engineering services.

A web-based payroll and recording service for independent contractors. The startup is being funded by a number of angel investors and is looking to launch its first product later this year.

A path for customers to connect with the right brands on Instagram, based on what they’re looking for.

A tool to give employees a simple way to talk to their bosses and coworkers at work and on the phone.

One of the founders is a former Google employee and the company is trying to make it easier to manage your VPS. They have a landing page that includes a free trial and a free account.

An event-driven service that allows users to create and share their own content directly to your website. It’s a tool that helps you build content, then share it with your audience to drive traffic to your site.

A real estate startup in New York City that’s looking to help people and companies find a space in the city. They’re focused on the New York City market.

A startup for freelancers and businesses to manage work and payments in one place.

A company that helps companies use the power of their social networks to promote their offerings online. They say they are the second largest influencer marketing agency in the industry, with clients like Dove and Nestle.

A project to help health care professionals gain experience with industry standard health IT tools.

A startup that makes it easier for people to sell items online. The startup has already done a pilot with local stores in Hong Kong and Singapore.

A kitchen appliance that assists you with meal planning, grocery shopping and meal preparation.

A mobile-first application that brings “real-time” travel recommendations to the road. The startup says it routes travelers based on “where the traffic is going” and “where the traffic is not”, and can even suggest alternate routes, saving time and money.

A social networking app for people eager to learn Spanish and get the most out of their language learning experience.

A home-services startup that connects customers with vetted experts in a variety of fields. Customers can book appointments with specialists, such as plumbers and electricians, via the platform.

A company that helps states build a network of local dispensaries. The startup currently provides software to the Colorado Department of Revenue, which they say has led to the creation of 2,000 jobs.

A company that would like to be the one-stop shop for a variety of financial products, including investment, investment advice, and insurance. The startup wants to help people make better financial decisions.

A platform for makers to connect with people who want to make their products. The company is funded by Maker’s Mark and Breyer’s among others.

A tool to help companies record and share the most valuable moments of a trip and plan better for the next time.

This company is a tool for sharing shopping lists with friends and family.

This startup wants to make itemized Amazon shipments easier to track, by tracking shipments by item, rather than by customer.

A startup that provides a service where people who are interested in buying a home can hire someone to walk through homes that are for sale to tell them if they’re a good fit

A tool that allows companies to manage their expenses, assets, etc. in a single place.

A tool for doctors to make sure they’re not sending patients to the wrong hospital.

This startup is building an app to help people with mental illness manage their health. The app aims to make mental health care more accessible and affordable.

The startup's founders say they help companies in the $50B+ technology industry find top technical talent and make sure they spend the right amount of time and money on the right people.

China’s internet giants are increasingly dominating the global digital advertising market. A recent report from Digiday says: “Chinese social media and news platforms have commanded the lion’s share of ad revenue as global digital ad spend in the country has grown at a staggering compound annual growth rate of around 40% over the last five years.” How are these companies making money They’re using the vast audience of consumers on social media for traditional advertising.

A platform to make it easier for creative professionals to collaborate with clients. Both parties can share and comment on the project, and get feedback/input from others in the community.

A tool for sales teams to keep track of their pipeline and pipeline-related data.

A digital assistant to help with daily tasks like scheduling meetings, tracking packages, and more.

A company that helps travelers book their hotel stays. The startup is based in the UK, but has an office in Chicago.

This startup makes the most of the fact that employers like to have their employees on the same location. It connects employees with other employees in a private chat room, where they can discuss work and ask questions. It’s a more efficient use of time for employers who don’t want their employees talking to each other.

A platform that enables cars to give rides to the elderly and disabled.

A platform that helps indie creators get paid for their work, allowing them to get their money from fans and not just platforms.

A semiconductor startup called 3ic is building a new type of chip that combines digital and analog components that work together to solve problems in alternate dimensions. For instance, 3ic’s analog-digital chip can channel data through certain dimensions to solve problems in medical imaging, like detecting tumours.

A cryptocurrency exchange based in Georgia. It was founded by an ex-Blackberry employee, who saw the need for a more professional cryptocurrency exchange.

A company that helps companies with bookkeeping, and aims to do it all online. They pitch themselves as something like a “full-service accounting platform,” complete with invoicing, payments, and accounting integrations. The company was founded in 2015, and has been profitable in its first year.

The company is building a sales and marketing platform for companies of all sizes that focuses on social selling.

A solution for the “on-demand economy”, giving users the ability to book drivers through their phone. Users can book drivers through the app or through an API.

An automated scheduling system for cleaning services.

A digital exchange that matches buyers and sellers of digital products.

A toolset that helps IT teams monitor and manage their employees’ data. The company wants to make it easier for companies to make sure they can easily monitor and make adjustments to their employees’ data.

These compostable cups are meant to help coffee shops reduce their packaging waste. They can be full of coffee or tea or soup and you can recycle them, but they don’t break down in landfills.

The startup is building a way to make it easier for the average person to sell their used goods on the internet. They’re currently crowdfunding a product that helps you list your used goods and get paid immediately via PayPal.

Citymapper is a map app that helps people navigate cities around the world.

A cloud-based platform for managing and tracking your investments. The startup says that it can help people manage more than 15,000 investment accounts in a single account.

The platform uses a "tinder-like" algorithm to match people with the best matches on their commute.

A way for marketers to track their Facebook ad campaigns in real-time, with a dashboard to see which ads are performing the best.

An intelligent mobile app for mobile operators to help them monitor their networks and manage their costs

A startup that’s creating a platform for sharing high-quality, low-cost medical images.

A tech company that makes digital services for the public health sector. They’re focused on getting government agencies to talk to each other.

An online marketplace that connects companies with international vendors who want to export products to the US.

A startup that provides a platform for building customized wellness programs for employees.

A “Social Commerce Platform” that allows brands to tie social media to their sales. The startup wants to help brands take advantage of social media to interact with their customers and drive sales. It’s working with a number of brands including Lululemon, Gatorade, and, most recently, Kia.

The company is taking a best-of-breed approach to the B2B market. They’re creating a SaaS solution that allows companies to collect and organize customer data, then use it to make better product decisions.

A tool for building interactive maps, allowing users to organize things like sports teams, book clubs, and other social groups.

A startup that sells an innovative model of “waste-to-fuel” that turns waste into electricity.

A way to help people navigate the process of buying a home.

A startup that helps its users take advantage of split-work hours that their employers or school offer

A startup that provides a service to help people in rural areas find ways to better utilize their land

A tool that helps companies build their own websites with a series of drag and drop screens and templates.

Swing is a service that helps people find events for the community, like a wedding or a trivia night.

A platform that helps people find jobs that they can work from home, where they don’t have to pay for a whole office.

"Authentic" is the name of an app that provides a secure, private and audited chat platform for businesses. The app allows users to create a private chat room for a group of up to ten people, with a group administrator who can add new members, delete or block members and monitor chat content. The company was founded by former Googler and Google Ventures partner Misha Chellam.

An animal behavior startup that’s using “machine learning and natural language processing” to analyze the behavior of animals and use that data to train animals to perform in new environments. The startup has raised $1.4 million and has worked with organizations like the National Zoo, Smithsonian, and National Geographic.

A tool for managing your social media accounts, allowing users to see their entire social media feed on one dashboard.

A product-as-a-service for companies to get more out of their event-planning software.

The president of a company called Trip Monitor, who spoke about the startup in a recent episode of The Startup Podcast, says that Trip Monitor, which is built on the idea that hotels should give consumers a “tiered” experience when it comes to online reviews, has built up a database of over 10 million hotel reviews.

A tool to help people book their travel, book their appointments, and make their travel reservations.

A virtual assistant that works for small businesses, helping them in tasks like scheduling meetings with clients and gathering the necessary information to support their business.

A health insurance for those that don’t want to use the Affordable Care Act, but still want its protections.

A tool for reporters and editors to share images, podcasts, and video.

A startup that helps fans sell tickets to watch their favorite musicians perform.

When you want to buy a new coat, you order it from a store. When you want to buy a new car, you do the same, and your credit card company gets in touch with you. When you want to buy a new smartphone, you have to go through the same process. It’s a bit of a hassle, and it costs a lot of money.

A personal finance app meant to simplify credit management and encourage good habits.

The company’s aim is to use the cloud to let users manage their finances, with a very intuitive interface.

This startup’s idea is a combination of a travel guide with an Instagram feed where you can find unique places to eat and stay. The company is working on bringing in new geographies and businesses to get more exposure.

A tool that helps companies with the creation of new sign-up forms.

A startup where people can vote on what they’d like to see on the menu at restaurants.

A monthly subscription service meant to help you save for retirement.

A startup that helps businesses manage HR on the go, allowing them to keep track of employee benefits, vacation time, and wages.

Is a company that provides a mobile application for restaurant owners who are looking to buy or sell.

A way for companies to get intelligence about the temperature in their warehousing facilities without having to send in a worker.

Flight Share is a SaaS platform that helps airlines and travel agencies collaborate.

The book was published on July 17, 2011, and made the New York Times Best Seller list on July 22, 2011, and remained on the list for two weeks.

A company that will sell you a ticket on the blockchain.

A startup that aims to replace the human factor with machine learning to make sales and customer service easier.

A platform that allows users to make their own websites and then connect them to Facebook and other social networks.

A startup for baristas to easily create and share coffee recipes

A startup that provides a service where people who are visiting a new city can get a box of carefully selected items that will help them enjoy their stay

A product that helps transport companies find and hire drivers, with a focus on the U.S. trucking market. The startup is marketed towards companies that already use a third-party recruitment or “driver matching” service.

A planning tool for people with dyslexia

A startup for students and recent graduates to find jobs. The company is targeting recent graduates in the US who lack jobs experience, but are in the midst of college.

A startup that curates fitness classes and offers personalized training plans

The company is building a digital marketplace for people who want to buy and sell their used goods at wholesale. The company is focusing on the US but they plan to launch internationally.

A personal trainer who tells you how to work out to make sure you’re getting the most out of your workout.

A company that helps restaurants review their food, and give customers ratings, which they hope will help improve online food ordering.

Dedicated to helping recruiters in the US access premium candidates that are currently unaccessible.

This startup is building an AI tool for customer service that interacts with customers in real time, allowing it to quickly answer questions and guide customers through the process.

A software company that helps increase safety on the job by tracking and sharing safety data on task-related incidents to HR.

The startup has doctors and pharmacists focus on the most important aspect of patient care. It is a free mobile application which eliminates the need for medical transcription or email communication.

Idea: A platform for getting the most out of your coffee. The startup offers three products: a coffee subscription service, a coffee maker that brews a single cup at a time, and a French press. Their subscription service offers 12 different types of coffee every month.

A startup that provides a service where you can get videos of your children or grandchildren at a discounted rate

A customer relationship management (CRM) tool for doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in the US

A digital platform for the entire global construction supply chain. The startup is building a software platform that allows construction companies and construction service providers to manage the entire supply chain.

A startup, phone app, and SMS platform for sharing and tracking health information.

A startup that helps companies provide food delivery to their employees. The startup is working with companies such as California Pizza Kitchen, Denny's, and Pei Wei to bring in revenue. The startup screens customers for a monthly membership fee of around $10 and works on a monthly basis. The startup says they have over 5,000 active customers, with over $2 million in monthly revenue.

It’s not uncommon for someone to wake up with a hangover, but it’s often a hassle to find something to drink that doesn’t taste gross. The startup wants to make sure there is always a drinkable alternative to the morning-after-party staple, water.

A system that helps dealerships and dealers manage cars. The company says they want to be the company that helps dealers manage cars and insurance.

A platform that lets you build custom quizzes, sortable by question difficulty, time and topic.

A tool that helps you find the best interest rates for your credit card. The startup says they have more than 1,000 users and are growing by 100 users a month. The founders say they’ve raised $1.3 million in funding from angel investors.

A startup platform for managing and sharing biological samples. The startup takes samples from patients, runs them through a machine that identifies what is in the sample, and then uses that information to help doctors diagnose their own patients.

The startup is building a platform that allows people to aggregate some of the most popular content on the web and create original content that’s relevant to them. The content creator gets paid in cryptocurrency, and the tool allows users to filter content based on their interests.

Virtual assistant that can be used with voice commands and text messages to schedule appointments, make reminder calls, and more. It’s currently available in the US, with plans to expand internationally.

This startup is building a software tool that helps companies manage their vendors and get paid faster. Vendors are paid on a monthly basis and have access to invoicing and reporting tools.

A machine-learning software solution to optimize customer experience by identifying and removing unproductive clicks.

A collaboration platform for physicians in the US. The startup is looking to deliver new drugs to cancer patients and offer new approaches to cancer treatment.

The startup is building a tool for customizing software for a particular application or job, and making the process of creating custom software easier.

A startup that provides mobile phone repair for $5, and a service in which customers can have their phones fixed by their friends.

A tool that helps fuel station cashiers and shopkeepers make accurate purchases from in-store kiosks, and creates new revenue opportunities for both.

A free app that helps you find the cheapest price for your prescriptions and get them delivered straight to your doorstep.

A platform that allows people to purchase and sell real estate together in a safe, transparent way.

A digital platform for buying and selling things to other people.

A tool that lets you connect to the data in your existing spreadsheets and make them read like a novel. Convert your spreadsheets into a novel.

A group messaging platform for professionals, which uses a native iOS and Android app and a web site to enable messaging, file sharing, and a unified inbox.

A tool that automates the process of setting up and managing a B2B company in the Philippines. The company has already partnered with a few companies to help them navigate the process of setting up a company in the Philippines.

A tool to help people with e-commerce businesses better understand the return of their inventory and look at their data quickly and visually.

An online marketplace that connects companies with international vendors who want to export products to the US.

A startup that’s building a platform to help middlemen brokers buy direct from manufacturers, helping to reduce costs, increase supply, and make sure all the right products are in the right places at the right time.

A startup that will provide a new way for investors to keep track of their investments, to save time and money.

A group of businesses that want to do something fun together. They’re looking for: non-profits, non-profits with low overhead, non-profits in the Bay Area, and non-profits with a good story.

A startup that helps doctors create their own patient portals, with patient data stored in a secure environment.

A SaaS solution that allows brands to create video content on their own, without having to rely on an outside film editor. The startup is also building a product that allows brands to create custom video ads with the click of a button.

This app that uses a real-time algorithm to help you make better travel decisions — like finding the cheapest flights, finding the best hotels, etc. — has a $5 million annual run rate.

A way for the user to design and customize his or her own Lego creation.

This is a company that is building a tool to help companies track their expenses in a way that can be neatly summarized into a spreadsheet.

A company that aims to build a simple digital video recorder that can be used to stream video from any compatible device, with a cloud-based backend that allows owners to edit, share, and even sell videos.

A startup that helps you choose, prepare, and deliver food for people who are ill, elderly, or disabled

A consumer marketing platform where customers can buy and ship products directly to friends. The startup is also working on a team-based crowdfunding platform to help small business owners.

A startup that helps companies get deep insights into their customer-base by providing access to their contact database.

A new venture-backed startup that’s building a platform to help developers build on top of any container of code.

A startup that makes it easy for organizations to manage a portfolio of digital and physical assets. The startup wants to help companies manage everything from physical files to web assets to partner websites.

A meal delivery app for consumers who want healthy food at home.

A new type of meal-kit delivery service that aims to save consumers money by offering discounts when they order in bulk. The startup already has a few thousand customers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A startup for managing all the different types of software for companies. Can provide a single pane of glass for software and services management, and help teams manage all their own software.

A small startup that’s trying to make everyone’s meal a little bit healthier.

Ideas for startups have been found on Quora and other sites.

A “social network built for the modern millennial”, with features like a group chat, a profile page, a newsfeed, and social networking features to connect with nearby people.

A startup based in New York City that aims to kill the email inbox forever by creating a tool that allows users to “scan and organize” their email inbox, creating an “out of sight out of mind” mentality that could help people focus on the most important things.

A patient-facing app that lets doctors and nurses communicate by text or video with a patient, and then view a summary of the conversation.

An on-demand platform that allows users to hire a bike, and then bring the bike to their location to pick it up

A social news app for young people aimed at boosting the career prospects of teen journalists.

A platform for online shoppers to compare prices from different stores. The company’s CEO says they have a large database of IP addresses from all over the world. The startup helps people find the lowest prices on products they’re looking for.

An online marketplace for beauty products from around the world. The startup helps people find the best products from all over the world, and gets a commission on the sale.

A data visualization platform that helps channel partners and advertisers learn about TV viewing habits, ultimately helping them determine the best times to advertise.

A platform that helps people ask for things on their phones. The startup has been working with a number of companies and wants to expand their platform into other verticals.

A Slack/Facebook hybrid app that helps you figure out where your friends live.

A “peer-to-peer” service that helps investors find and vet startups. They’re currently in closed beta.

A new kind of credit card meant to help families save money on groceries and other purchases. The startup’s founder says it’s working with a number of grocery chains and wants to build out a platform for other retailers.

A B2B SaaS business that helps companies with employee onboarding.

A startup that builds printers that are designed to look like plants, with wood grain and other organic details.

A startup that connects on-demand workers with companies that require workers who are not full-time

A startup that helps companies automate security. After logging into their system, users can create “scripts” that connect to their systems and tell them what they should be doing to keep them secure.

A platform that allows users to share their ideas, design concepts or even start working on a project to get feedback from other users.

A virtual assistant that allows users to message and set reminders in text.

A startup that’s building software to make it easier for small businesses to manage their expenses and accounting.

A desktop-based tool for making mockups of websites and apps.

A platform for companies to manage and track their suppliers, keeping tabs on orders and payments and giving owners control over their inventory.

A productivity startup that wants to make office Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel much more efficient. Available on Windows/Mac.

A startup that wants to replace the ad-tech industry by building a self-serve platform for advertisers to create and manage their own ads and campaigns.

A Canadian startup that has been testing a new way to deal with the waste of Canadian food waste by using what they call “a great bed of lettuce”.

A startup that is building a platform to take care of enterprise customers’ sensitive data.

Idea: An API for domain name registration

A way to know when a shipment will arrive. The company is building a mobile app that allows truckers to track the progress of their shipments in real-time.

A technology that will allow robots to follow human movements and do physical tasks for humans. The startup is getting $1M from the Singapore government.

A proof-of-concept for a drone delivery system for medical supplies, which it describes as a “ruggedized, 30-pound, cargo-carrying drone”. The startup is still in the development phase and is looking for partners to help bring it to market.

A startup that wants to improve the way you pay for car insurance, by eliminating the agent and cutting out a lot of the muss and fuss.

A new kind of online sales platform for small businesses that’s built around a mobile channel. The startup wants to help small businesses build their own mobile app sales channel in two hours, with a demo version available now, and a full version launching in mid-2020.

A game where you play a healer and have to heal your friends from the shadow that is chasing them

A digital ad-blocking tool for iOS and Android.

A tool that analyzes popular Twitter hashtags to show trends on trending topics.

Micro-loans for the unbanked, with a minimum term of 9 months, a maximum term of 20 years, and a minimum interest rate of 2%. The goal is to offer a lifeline for the unbanked, who often have a hard time obtaining a traditional bank account.

A blockchain-based real estate rental platform.

An AI-based chatbot that will help investors make better investment decisions. The startup says it is currently in the “soft launch” phase of their $1 million seed round.

Idea: A programmable hardware add-on for Raspberry Pi

The most influential students in the YC community are the founders and co-founders of YC startups. These are founders that have gone on to found their own companies in the seven years since YC.

A startup that wants to make it easier for business owners to use the same tools to run their business online as they do in the physical world. For example, users can use a smartphone camera to scan a QR code on a package and automatically get the package’s tracking info.

An AI bot for doctors, to help them diagnose patients and see more patients.

A food and beverage startup that wants to provide a way for restaurants to track and manage their inventory in a centralized database.

A startup that uses machine learning to help brands find the right person for the job. They claim to have found just the right person for 1,900 positions, including jobs at Uber and Goldman Sachs.

The startup is working on a new type of mobile banking that’s mobile-first, and designed to provide easy access to traditional banking services like check deposits, bill pay, and direct deposit.

A startup that makes it easy to take your own and other people’s photos and build a website around them

A browser extension that lets you auto-like posts on Facebook

A web-based video platform for providing short-form, on-demand “how to” guides for small businesses. The idea is that users can subscribe to specific topics, such as ‘how to sell on eBay’ and then be notified when a new video is available.

A company that is building a platform to help people get involved in public policy and political engagement.

Amped is a personal assistant platform that aims to help people “get unstuck” and get back to doing the things they love. Amped helps people make phone calls, book restaurants through OpenTable, and book other things that help them get back to doing the things they love.

A credit card that automatically pays a percentage of your purchases each month.

A company that helps companies manage their email marketing campaigns through a tool that allows them to create and send personalized emails to customers who have expressed an interest in a brand.

A platform that helps you share and curate content from multiple publishers in real time. The startup's main goal is to help publishers and brands sell more stuff.

Spectra is a startup that provides a platform for building better experiences for “heads-up displays” which are basically the tiny screens that are mounted on modern vehicles to display speed, navigation, and other information. It’s available on Android and iOS.

An online platform to help people find a new dentist, with the goal of saving them time and money.

Idea: This startup is building a product that helps people find the best time of the day to do some of their most important tasks

A technology that helps to monitor the health of workers, including health risk factors and physical activity levels. The startup believes that the technology will be important for companies who want to make sure their employees are healthy.

A digital health company focused on providing software and services for large health care system’s to help with interoperability.

A platform designed to help people create a digital voice of steel and steel-on-steel records.

Image-based gaming that’s “a big, open world role playing game experience” that lets you explore and interact with other players.

A startup that sells a tool for creating videos that are designed to be shown on screens in public

A chatbot that helps users understand the ins and outs of their retirement accounts.

A startup that helps companies explore their data across different data sources, with the goal of extracting the useful data buried in the data.

A mobile app that allows you to find nearby empty parking spots, then pay for them via NFC.

A digital marketplace for real estate services where people can list, rate, and review homes.

A small business lending platform that takes a portion of the income of the borrower and invests it in loans to other small businesses.

The leader in providing the most accurate way to measure real estate in the US, this startup is working on new tools to help people analyze the real estate market.

A medical device company that is working to develop a device that can provide rapid, life-saving care to non-emergency situations.

The BusinessBold is an online directory of B2B startups. The directory allows members to search for businesses based on location, industry, and size. The directory is updated weekly.

Another company that tracks and offsets a person’s carbon footprint by helping them track their daily activities, and then offsets those carbon emissions with payments to offset both the person’s carbon footprint and their daily activities.

Idea: A startup that helps students and recent grads find and apply for jobs The target market is students who are pretty much guaranteed to get a job, but the startup’s ambitions are much larger

A startup that helps engineers manage the full lifecycle of their software projects. It’s a B2B SaaS platform serving developers worldwide.

This startup wants to build a new type of credit card for the underbanked, especially in developing countries. It takes the form of a prepaid card and is available in any currency. Given the lack of banking options in many such countries, the startup sees a lot of potential for growth.

A new kind of social network, ‘Memex’, in which users can create a personalized journal that can be viewed by anyone.

A company that makes software that helps you find the best healthcare professionals for your needs.

A startup that makes it easier for iOS and Android app developers to track their app installs from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, as well as download statistics.

Starts with a wish list on Amazon, then sends the link to the gift recipient who can then pick out items. The company wants to build a personalized gift registry service on Amazon that’s easy for shoppers to use.

A social networking platform to help English learners learn English, and for native speakers to learn Spanish.

A startup for people looking to hire drivers for errands, allowing drivers to set up profiles for clients to review and contact them to set up a time for a ride.

A company that wants to help companies of all sizes automate their payroll, in order to save on payroll and reduce errors.

A company that aims to be the Uber of freelance services by connecting service providers with customers.

A tool for agencies and marketers that lets them create personalized video ads for brands. The startup’s first product is a video ad campaign-management tool that’s in beta with a handful of clients.

This startup wants to make all of your dinner reservations, not just dinner reservations, but also coffee and wine reservations, spa appointments and babysitting appointments, all in one app.

A tool for graphic designers and animators to create animations with a single click.

A world map for VR/AR, which is made up of 3D scans of cities and landmarks.

A company that wants to take the hassle out of hiring at startups.

A startup that wants to replace the ad-tech industry by building a self-serve platform for advertisers to create and manage their own ads and campaigns.

A company that wants to build a subscription platform for healthcare services. The startup is backed by investors that include Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, First Round Capital, and SV Angel.

A startup that wants to create an app that keeps you up-to-date with the latest news and information from your friends and family, or just from the web.

A web-based stencil-and-painting app that allows users to create customized graffiti anywhere they can type.

This startup wants to help small businesses create, manage, and share Google Docs spreadsheets directly from their phone.

A startup that wants to give businesses a way to predict new customers based on the behavior of previous customers.

A company that helps people who want to start a business but need more information on the legalities of doing so.

A company that lets people use a single credit card to buy things with both Apple and Android devices.

A platform for managing medical records, bills, and diagnostics. A SaaS platform designed for medical providers.

A startup that’s building hardware that enables and tracks connected objects to collect statistics automatically. The company wants to make the world more “smart”.

A way to buy and sell tickets for local events, like movie nights and concerts.

A pet insurance startup. Founder Alec Sharma says he wants to make it easy to insure your pet. “You can get insurance for your dog, you can get insurance for your cat, you can get insurance for your hamster.”

A mobile app that creates a single login for all of your internet accounts. The company is focused on developing a solution that is secure and easy to use. The startup is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy to use. The company is focused on creating a solution that is safe and easy

An AI chatbot that helps farmers in India manage their produce. It’s meant to give farmers access to AI-generated insights on produce, including when it’s ripe and when it’s best to harvest.

It’s a subscription service for most common household cleaning needs.

A web-based video platform for providing short-form, on-demand “how to” guides for small businesses. The idea is that users can subscribe to specific topics, such as ‘how to sell on eBay’ and then be notified when a new video is available.

A tool for creating and executing marketing and sales campaigns. Available as a Slack bot and as a browser extension, and also as a mobile app.

A startup that allows people to set up “virtual” job interviews. The startup is currently in stealth mode and won’t be going public.

A news app that provides video and text updates.

A self-service dashboard for companies using multiple accounting software.

A way to copyright performance art, or “capture the essence of an artistic performance.” It’s a sort of digital short film that you can collect and share with friends.

A tool for developers to find out how their products are used, with the goal of helping them fix bugs.

Flight Share is a SaaS platform that helps airlines and travel agencies collaborate.

The startup’s first product is a set of AI-powered smart lockers in Manhattan that can be unlocked by your phone and only unlock when you’re in the vicinity of one. The lockers are meant to help you travel more freely, as well as help improve traffic flow and security at the same time.

A B2B AI startup that helps e-commerce businesses track inventory, order fulfillment, and customer engagement. They have raised $20 million.

A real estate startup that makes it easy for both buyers and sellers to find and share housing and real estate deals.

A software company that helps creative teams work faster by way of music and sound design.

A platform for recruiting drivers. The startup claims to have reduced turnover and increased productivity by 30 percent.

A wearable that tracks how you walk to help with weight loss and health.

A standalone Chrome extension that helps people find the best local photo-sharing service, with a built-in map to help users discover new services.

The app will allow people to search and buy flights at any time of day, choosing from direct flights, travel agencies, or their preferred airlines.

A platform to help businesses and consumers on the US West coast find the best time to buy and sell homes.

A platform for data science projects, allowing people to submit their code and get feedback on it. They’re also working on a product that helps people sell their data.

An interactive video dating app that lets you create your own personal events and search through the profiles of others.

A startup that wants to do the work of a labor union for a company, helping its employees organize and fight for better pay and benefits on their own terms.

This is a tool that helps businesses in the US comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The startup helps companies perform a self-assessment on their health insurance plans to see if they comply with the rules of the law. The code is open source.

A shopping app that connects users to local merchants. The app allows users to search for nearby, often ethnic-specific, goods, and shop for them through the app.

This is a place for people to buy used electronics

A software solution for governments to more efficiently and easily collect and process data and information.

A company that aims to make low-risk, high-return investments in real estate.

A tool for building and connecting ad hoc APIs to help companies develop and deploy on-demand APIs on platforms like Slack.

A startup that builds artificial intelligence and machine learning products, such as a facial recognition camera. It’s an SaaS business that helps businesses use AI to predict supply chain disruptions and optimize operations.

One of the most common complaints about shopping carts is that it’s hard to compare prices. 3D Cart hopes to help with that by showing the prices from the retailer’s site directly on the cart page.

A platform that helps people buy and sell single family homes. Currently focused on the UK. The company is using a combination of software and crowdsourced data to help buyers make smarter decisions.

Redefining the way the world looks at enterprise IT. As the founder puts it, "We're building a new kind of company where there's no hierarchy, no CTO, no CEO, everything is built from the bottom up."

A freelance freelance marketplace for designers and developers.

This a personal-finance app that helps people track their spending and come up with a plan for paying off loans. The founders say it’s one of the most active finance apps in Japan.

A CB Insights alum re-entering the market after 10 years at another firm.

A digital payments startup that provides instant transfers for payment services like Venmo and Zelle.

An AI-powered assistant that can help you find the best nearby restaurants that serve food you like.

A chatbot for users in the UK who are looking to buy a home

A startup that provides an AI-based technology that matches people with jobs based on their skill sets and location.

A platform for early stage companies that focuses on the content side of an entrepreneur’s portfolio

A health app that uses a person’s existing social graph to construct a “social profile” of their health and use that as a foundation for recommendations.

A startup that helps people take care of their mental health, including counseling and psychology services. The startup is working on a mobile app for people to use when they need help, and is trying to work with employers to offer mental health support on-site.

A platform for connecting buyers and sellers of real estate, with a goal to make the process of buying and selling real estate as easy as using Swappa to buy an iPhone.

A way to collect and analyze large amounts of data from communities across the U.S. and Canada. The startup’s app is an alternative to existing pollsters like SurveyMonkey and SurveyCaster, meant to make surveys easier to collect and analyze.

A software company that provides a tool for creating a knowledge base for customer service, with an AI chatbot that helps you solve customer problems.

A startup that uses a “rules engine” to provide a predictive model for understanding the relationship between various risk factors and their effects on health.

A startup that helps people find and purchase loans and lines of credit for a variety of purposes.

A food delivery service that uses Ubers to compete with Grubhub

A way to rate your mattress, so you can get the best deal.

A Target-like store that sells clothing and food that is actually made in the US, not just imported. It’s not a direct competitor to Nordstrom or Macy’s.

This startup is building a way for people to buy music, movies, or games without having to log into their social media accounts

A tool to create and manage offline events, like conferences.

OpenIDEO is a platform to crowdsourcing ideas providing a place to design and create products, apps and websites.

A startup that helps users choose what they want to do with their careers by helping them build a personal profile.

A tool to help people understand their finances, in the form of an app that takes a person’s income and expenses and tells them how much to spend each month. The startup is also building a tool to help people understand their credit scores, and is working with several credit scoring agencies.

The company wants to do the same thing that Groupon did for local deals, except for flights.

A platform that helps identify and connect brands with influencers, and enables influencers to sell their own content.

A startup that helps you learn the dates of birth of the world’s most famous people.

A mobile app that helps businesses track sales to prevent fraud.

A startup that helps parents compare health care and childcare providers.

A new startup that wants to help small businesses and restaurants keep track of their inventory, and the cost of their items.

A startup that uses a smartphone app to create a marketing database.

A personalized video strategy for people with diabetes, including training and materials. The company is looking to build a community of users to help them monetize the platform.

A tool for companies to manage their various customer support departments. The company has been around for a few years and is active in the UK marketplace.

A platform to find and book airfare and hotels. The company’s mission is to democratize travel with a transparent and fair marketplace.

A company that provides hourly workers with technology and training to get their own small business off the ground. Come Up Now has grown from a handful of contracts to 200 employees in the past six months.

A business intelligence service for law firms to analyze case data.

A startup that wants to help people make money off their pets. It’s in early stages, but has already raised $145,000 in seed funding from AngelList.

An online marketplace for quirky, unique, and one-of-a-kind items.

A hamburger-focused delivery startup targeting the Bay Area, with a goal of having a minimum of $20 million in revenue by the end of the year.

A coffee subscription service for the food industry, where the coffee is made from beans from the farm to cup by the service.

An online platform for small businesses to grow their businesses. It’s meant to be more of a business management platform for those who already sell their own products, rather than a marketplace like Etsy.

A digital platform for mortgage brokers to help them manage their portfolios.

OpenIDEO is a platform to crowdsourcing ideas providing a place to design and create products, apps and websites.

A subscription-free, open-source messaging platform for teams. The startup’s founders say they want to transform how groups collaborate.

A team of people that builds software for and with the help of the general public (readers, writers and other types of creators). Its first product was a book, "", which won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Best Nonfiction.

A secure messaging platform for companies, with a focus on the enterprise market.

A startup that provides a service for people who have lost their job to find work in another city

This startup helps businesses sell more stuff online by helping shoppers buy online, then driving them to a physical store.

A “place to be” startup that provides digital entertainment and experiences on larger screens, like living room TVs and monitors.

A company that markets itself as the “Netflix for podcasts”, the startup allows users to get digital access to podcasts for $5 per month.

A free web-based tool for brainstorming, ideation and collaboration that enables teams of all sizes and across all industries to create, share and manage ideas.

This is a startup that wants to help people find a new job. The company is only in its first month of operations, and has already added 500 users.

This startup is building a “smart” bike that can tell you how many calories you’ve burned and how far you’ve ridden. The device is designed to help people get fit, and is a spinoff of the company’s original product, a smart wristband that used to measure blood oxygen levels.

The company is creating a platform for companies that want to take advantage of their networks of publicists, leading to more effective, more affordable marketing.

The goal of this startup is to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for jobs by connecting job seekers to the companies that need their skills. It’s not a pure employment-screening app per se, but a platform that helps people find out if their skills are in demand in the market. It’s also built to help them with their resumes, which it charges based on the number of times a user interacts with the app.

A way of paying for services with cryptocurrency instead of fiat.

This is a service that helps people build a custom app for their business. Currently, the company is looking for partners to build custom apps for their business.

The startup has raised over $2.5 million to date. New York-based

A startup that will enable lenders to offer small business loans online.

An AI that helps power the “emotional intelligence” of retail stores, which are expected to grow in importance.

A self-driving car startup that’s raised a $5.5 million Series A.

A startup that wants to help people make a living from freelance writing. The company currently has a few thousand subscribers, and they’ve had a few hundred paid customers since launching in Fall 2018.

A blockchain-based solution for streaming Chinese TV to the world

A company that helps companies authenticate their employees using a device that tracks the electrical signals in the brain.

This startup is building a network of community centers, but with a twist — they’re using all-online technology to make it easier for users to access services.

A digital library for digital comics.

The startup is looking to build an app that enables customers to buy pre-made meals (think take-out) within a few minutes.

A Slack competitor for the enterprise that wants to put businesses in touch with one another.

A platform that helps businesses manage their data more effectively, as well as connect diverse data sources.

A startup that allows people to pay their bills and more online. It is a web and mobile app that helps people manage their expenses, track the status of their bills, and make payments.

A tool for building and testing native mobile apps using an iOS emulator.

A company that sells a handheld device that can measure UV quantities for soil. The company’s first product is a $200 device that measures UV quantities to help farmers measure how much fertilizer to use.

A content-marketing tool for food bloggers. The startup takes a percentage of a blogger’s ad revenue.

A startup that makes it easier for people to get loans from a bank by letting them use their savings accounts to finance their loan.

A tool that lets people collaborate on a contract basis on a project and build it together.

A California-based startup that makes a low-cost, low-power, solar powered charger for phones and other devices. It’s a rival to the crowd-funded Fission, which offers a similar product.

A startup that wants to use the open API of Google Maps to allow people to make maps of their own.

A startup connecting smart home ecosystems to the Internet of things.

A digital platform for connecting buyers and sellers of used cars.

A wireless charging pad for your smartphone. The company is working to make the whole process of charging wirelessly faster, and also plans to work on a spot-on version in which a charging pad can be placed on any surface and a smartphone can be placed on top to charge.

A company that wants to make it easier for families to share photos and video of the kids, including a new product that lets kids make their own videos and share them with friends with a few taps.

A startup that allows people to connect with local services in their area, including handyman, repairmen, and the like.

A remote health care provider that provides “one-stop care” for patients. They’re building a platform that connects doctors to patients and other medical professionals for appointments and referrals, and serves as a concierge for other medical services like supply and delivery.

A company that aims to create one-click access to the stock market for average investors and let them track stocks in real-time.

An on-demand e-commerce platform for retail and wholesale customers (e.g. restaurants, bars, and importers/exporters).

A company that provides a platform for businesses to build and promote their own e-commerce stores. The company acts as a clearinghouse for inventory and shipping, taking a commission on each sale, plus a minor fee for each product.

Ex-Google engineers are building a new living room device they call the “Echo” that’s essentially a giant voice-controlled speaker. The device is a stripped-down, Google-made version of the Google Home, and can be controlled by voice, music, and TV apps. It’s set to launch in November.

A platform that helps agencies and brands manage their digital campaigns and see stats about them.

A company that wants to make it easier for people to access healthcare, through telemedicine.

A company that helps real estate agents and others make sense of real estate transaction data across multiple systems.

A partnership between a French startup and a Chinese firm, with an eye on the international market. A company that wants to make marketing easy for small businesses.

A platform for companies to facilitate “experiential learning” programs. They’re currently working with three startups, including one in the YC batch.

A decentralized insurance marketplace for global insurance.

Designed for buyers of consumer electronics, this product helps users compare prices across hundreds of online retailers. The software scans thousands of consumer product listings from over 30,000 online retailers from all over the world. The company says it is already being used by over 1 million shoppers in the U.S.

It’s a company that hires independent researchers to evaluate the credibility of news stories. The startup says it has a staff of more than 30 researchers in the US and Europe and claims to be the fastest growing news-biased fact-checking startup in the US.

A payroll company that wants to “make payroll simple”.

An online tool that helps journalists find accurate and reliable information about current events without sifting through tweets, Facebook posts, and other unreliable sources.

A platform that allows you to order a pizza through voice commands. The startup is hoping to compete with the likes of GrubHub and UberEATS with a $5 price tag.

A startup that provides a service where people can purchase classes for different hobbies

A company that helps businesses organize their gifts and offers for clients, as well as events and employee recognition, to save everyone time and money.

The startup is looking to solve the problem of how to charge customers for work their employees do for them. The startup is building a way for companies to make sure their employees are being paid for the work they do.

Building a tool for online shopping for large groups of people, also known as "multi-store shopping".

The app will make it easy for customers to book trips and delivery orders by selecting from a shortlist of the three most popular services, such as Uber and Postmates, and using a booking code to complete the purchase.

A way to stay in touch with a company long after they’ve been acquired.

A financial management tool for people with less than $50,000 in net worth.

Simplifying the process of getting an investor on board. The company offers $2 million in funding to companies that have $20,000 in annual revenue plus have a proven track record of revenue growth.

A company that is working with local governments to help them use the power of social media to bring transparency to city hall.

A startup that wants to “break the tyranny of email”. It’s a group messaging tool that allows you to create groups, memberships, and events tied to a single email address.

The team behind E-commerce Startup Factory is pitching to help businesses that have grown but need to scale their operations. They are looking for startups that have launched a business, but are not yet ready for expansion.

A platform where people can borrow a car for a day or a week

A B2B company that’s building a centralized platform for managing the logistics of document management and sharing. They want to use AI to help companies manage their documents better.

A not-for-profit that’s building a platform to teach girls to code.

A platform that helps parents manage their children’s everything from school and extracurricular activities to college visits and birthdays. The founders say they’ve launched a beta version of the platform that lets parents order and schedule activities, and set rules around cancelling and rescheduling. The founders also have a personal story about how their startup led them to discover their company’s mission.

A “cloud” of software engineers who are architects and developers on demand. The company says it gets between $2 and $4 million per month in recurring revenue.

A tool for teachers to visualize and understand the student body

A startup that provides mobile training to employees, with a program that offers employees the opportunity to collect feedback on a mobile device about their interaction with customers.

The app claims to have built the “first-ever AI bot to talk to your landlord”.

A simple way to put email and messaging in one inbox, and a way to make calls from one platform. Each app is meant to be used alongside the other, and can be combined with other services like Slack and Google Voice.

A company that wants to connect businesses with professional marketing services.

Foodway is a startup whose goal is to make it easier for people to eat healthy food. It’s building a subscription service that connects restaurants with local food suppliers and curates food for its users.

A startup that helps poor people earn money through their smartphones. The startup wants to replace the urban poor with a new type of labor force that’s more productive and less susceptible to exploitation.

A project management tool for people with small teams, meant to make it easier to track tasks and track progress.

A LinkedIn-like tool for securing your network of contacts.

Serves as an “Amazon” for the “prosumers” who buy and sell things on Amazon that they can’t sell on Amazon, which handles shipping, returns, and customer service.

This startup wants to help apps that are live broadcast their broadcasts live.

“A social network for people that have a lot of different things they do.”

A text-based messaging platform for small businesses and freelancers, with a focus on helping people access, manage, and share documents and files.

A B2B platform that lets businesses find the best rates for background checks.

A startup for sellers of physical goods, similar to eBay.

A micro-investment product for small investors. The startup has created a platform that allows you to invest in a portfolio of loans rather than a single loan.

Businesses in the mobile payments space have often struggled with security. Called SIV, it uses AI to make payments on a consumer’s behalf with a single tap.

This is a startup that’s building a data science team for brands in order to get smarter, more predictive and better at predicting the future of marketing

A startup that’s focused on helping students, parents, and teachers access academic content easily

A platform that lets restaurants post photos and video of their food to social media, allowing customers to see what the restaurant looks like, and even eat the food.

A startup that helps users create a “mini-startup” and manage it from one place. The company wants to help people build and grow startups with minimal effort.

A startup that helps commercial real estate companies find the best deals and manage their portfolios.

A digital food safety application for importing food. It’s a tool for checking food safety once it’s on the plane, and an app to allow governments to track food in transit.

A VR toolkit for architects and designers, meant to help them visualize their ideas with 3D models. The company is also building a $250,000 grant for the most promising VR startups.

This startup is building a digital toolkit to help employees in the US and abroad to manage everything from their payroll to benefits to taxes.

A startup that builds security tools for the cloud. The startup aims to use threat intelligence from the NSA and other government organizations to create a platform that can help find and stop hacker attacks.

A startup that’s building a new paradigm for enterprise workflows. The idea is to focus on a single task, like a file, and deliver it to everyone on the team, rather than having everyone email the same file to themselves, which is a slow and inefficient way to manage it.

A startup building tools for companies to manage short-term contracts. The company said it has already raised $14 million in funding.

A tool for reading faster, with an algorithm built to read 300 words per minute for average readers. It’s currently being used by the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn .

A monthly subscription service for home laundry detergent that offers recommendations for how much to buy, when and how to use it. The startup has already sold more than $2 million in the past year from its first customers–with over 25,000 subscriptions.

A startup founded by Apple alum, which aims to make it easier for people to clean their devices. In exchange for every $10 the company makes, it donates $1 to environmental causes.

A company that uses a decentralized network to help refugees find work and get them quickly back to their homes, because their own government isn’t letting them leave.

Matching a user's facial expressions with activities they would like to do, like watching TV or playing video games. The startup wants to use this to tailor ads in a way that’s more aligned with users’ interests.

A software startup that helps identify and track the best opportunities for its users.

A startup that sells a kit for people who want to do the things they have always wanted to do but never had the time to do

This startup looks to build a more flexible, less expensive alternative to traditional DNS (domain name server) services (think Cloudflare.)

A cryptocurrency exchange based in Georgia. It was founded by an ex-Blackberry employee, who saw the need for a more professional cryptocurrency exchange.

The startup helps users complete tasks with a simple command on a web app. It allows users to create tasks with a simple command on a web app. They can be as simple as “add a link,” for example, or more complicated like “run a test at https://x.x.x.x/y.”

A platform that automates the process of doing social media advertising. It uses AI to match ads to consumers based on their interests on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

A startup that offers a new kind of savings account. Instead of storing cash in a savings account for specific purposes, such as a vacation, the user can purchase a “lifestyle account” that allows the user to save the money for recurring costs, such as monthly payments to a car loan or a credit card bill.

A project management and collaboration platform for teams organized around the creation of online content.

A platform that connects diverse groups of people with similar interests

A startup that helps hotels and restaurants get their online marketing more focused and effective.

A $25M investment round, led by Fidelity Ventures, brings the company’s total funding to $68.5M.

A tool for compliance at a healthcare company to help them understand, control, and report on their compliance.

A platform that brings together all of the services that a company needs to attract and retain talent, like career counseling, HR, and employee benefits.

A “get paid to give your opinions” company that pays you money to share your feedback on a product.

A startup that aims to help people of all ages stay in touch with the people they care about most.

This startup is building a digital platform for the financial services industry. The startup wants to help companies collect, verify and store financial data, so they can make sure they’re getting paid for the right thing.

A product that tracks your sleep and then tells you how it affects your productivity.

A company that provides a Q&A startup for companies. The startup wants to use machine learning to predict which questions a company will ask and answer them, resulting in a service that’s more productive for companies.

A startup that generates a QR-coded payment processing and shipping label.

A digital health startup that is building a system to help people monitor their health and wellness from the comfort of their sofa.

This startup is building a new kind of network for startups, one that allows them to share their financial data, such as their expenses, with other investors. In the past six months, the startup has raised $3 million from investors.

TechCrunch’s IPOs have been pretty good over the past decade. The 14 most recent IPOs have collectively brought in $2.4 billion as of April 2018, according to research from Pitchbook.

A startup for service agencies to help them automate tasks, such as scheduling and follow-up, and to make it easier for customers to request service. The business is currently focused in the UK.

A SaaS tool for finding and booking open-ended, immersive style tours in any city. The startup also offers a booking platform for short-term travelers and an app that lets you book tours in advance.

A platform that helps users make their own ads, then upload them for approval.

A product that makes it easy to connect to a variety of software services including Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud, Slack, and Salesforce

A CTO partner to help engineers manage and scale their businesses.

A new kind of social network for people who are interested in sharing their cat videos or pictures on Instagram.

This is a tool that helps businesses in the US comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The startup helps companies perform a self-assessment on their health insurance plans to see if they comply with the rules of the law. The code is open source.

An online tool that helps users make money on their spare computer cycles.

This startup is building a tool to automatically generate landing pages for your campaign. The startup is a Y Combinator alum, having raised a seed round in 2013.

A startup that builds a cloud-based service to help companies get their vehicles to a service center for maintenance when they’re out of warranty.

A company that’s building an app that helps people negotiate better deals with their employers.

A system for anyone to manage how they get their groceries delivered, from the stores where they buy to the stores that are closest for them to get their groceries.

Let’s call this app the “Uber for food”. This is a restaurant-on-demand service that can be triggered via a mobile app.

A digital currency that aims to make it easier for artists to get paid for their work in the art market while protecting them from scams and frauds.

A startup that builds apps for markets with different business models from the US, such as the Indian market, where companies can’t sell a product for cash.

A SaaS offering that helps banks integrate their checking accounts with their mobile apps.

A startup that wants to help companies build and manage their mobile applications. They’ve built the app-building platform, and have been working with small businesses and startups to build their own apps.

A startup that is building an app that helps you manage and monitor your employees’ health and productivity. It’s a service that works in tandem with a health tracking app, which is free to download.

A startup that enables users to determine the health of an anonymous friend. The startup currently has 70,000 registered users.

A social destination for food and drink recommendations.

A startup for sharing your digital photos and videos with friends and family.

A customer and supplier management software to help small and medium-sized businesses reduce costs and increase productivity.

The startup is focused on the global pharmaceutical supply chain, and wants to use blockchain technology to help reduce fraud and improve transparency.

A 3D printing service for businesses, which promises to bundle all the 3D printing services together so customers can find everything they might need under one roof. The 3D printing startup, which was founded in September 2018, is based in Silicon Valley.

Blockchain-based dating platform for people who are already in relationships.

A small business services company working to help small businesses with accounting, human resources, legal and marketing support.

A next-generation restaurant delivery app that allows users to order food, track it and pay, all through a mobile app. What They Deliver is putting a new business model on the table to help restaurant owners grow their companies.

A platform for creators of custom-made products to sell their wares to other manufacturers.

A web application that allows users to create and manage their own online communities, and manage their content in a professional and organized manner.

A startup to help people set up and launch a crowdfunding campaign, like a Kickstarter

A startup that aims to crowdsource the work of hiring software engineers, with a tool for job hunting and research.

Companies today have huge backlogs of social and community management needs that are “outside the scope of their core competencies”

A multi-location physical store that sells items like bicycles, fitness equipment, and outdoor gear. The company has $2 million in revenue and 20 employees, and is based in New York and LA.

A system that gives builders and renovators an easy way to track down previous owners and use the information to create a more authentic renovation process. The startup says it has already helped about 10,000 customers, with 3,000 of those using it to find previous owners.

Platform for making apps in the form of games, by having users build a game from a set of instructions.

A startup that has built an online tool for managing a property investment portfolio.

A digital communications platform for maid agencies, connecting them to customers.

This startup wants to make it easier to deliver food to hungry people. Their service is focused on India, but they plan to expand to the US, Europe and the Middle East.

A startup that helps consumers get their money back from airlines for delayed flights.

A startup based in New York City that aims to kill the email inbox forever by creating a tool that allows users to “scan and organize” their email inbox, creating an “out of sight out of mind” mentality that could help people focus on the most important things.

This startup is building a platform that helps companies deliver more useful customer service by automating the back and forth between a company and a customer.

A travel booking app that lets users create trips without leaving the app, without having to create a separate account.

A platform for hiring experts to provide remote technical support

A real estate startup focused on providing services to families moving to new neighborhoods.

This is an app that helps consumers find an apartment for rent by allowing them to search and compare all listings in San Francisco and beyond.

This startup is building a cloud-based service that allows small businesses to send invoices and manage their accounting in one place. It’s in beta and doesn’t have any revenue yet.

A startup that wants to use AI to identify and flag “fake news” on social media

A B2B marketplace for food products.

A wireless charger, designed to work on any flat surface, for any phone.

A tool for collecting and managing customer feedback for food businesses

A startup that helps customers change loyalty cards without physically going to the store.

A self-driving, electric semi truck. The company says they’re trying to “make it a safer, cleaner way to transport goods”.

This startup helps users find and repair faulty appliances.

This startup helps brands sell their products wholesale on Amazon by applying the Amazon Prime model to their own brand.

A startup that offers a platform for engineers to make their own tools, or to acquire/buy off third party tools. The company says it’s already has a few clients paying for access to it’s engineering platform.

A startup that’s building a suite of enterprise software and SaaS services that help companies with accounting and payroll.

An online platform for hiring remote workers. The Atlanta-based startups aims to be the “Uber of remote work”, allowing companies to find and hire remote workers quickly.

A new approach to translation with machine learning.

A tool that helps teams improve their communication and productivity in a group setting

A platform that helps people build their own online stores. Customers that build their own online stores can then order their products through Amazon, eBay or any other platform.

This startup is building an app to help companies decide between what they call “full stack” or “micro-services” architectures.

A B2B platform that helps restaurants manage their food delivery operations. The startup, in operation in San Francisco and New York, has raised $5.6 million to date.

A SaaS sales app that helps salespeople and managers track sales pipeline, resources and pipeline capacity.

One of the key differences between this year’s class and last year’s was the level of public interest in highlighting the work of the companies that were accepted. This year that level was very high, with over 10,000 people visiting the project page. That interest was a major factor in the growth of the class.

A startup that sells customer acquisition services for B2B companies. They’re focused on funding growth for their clients by providing free, one-time services such as marketing and customer support.

A decentralized, privacy-focused, social platform for the sharing and discussion of taboo things, like porn and sexuality.

A payments company that aims to help companies simplify their payment processing and make it cheaper for small businesses to accept payments.

A startup that helps companies find investment opportunities in the public markets in developing countries.

This company is building a toolkit for managing and monitoring your content marketing campaigns. The goal is to make it easy for companies to build and manage their content marketing programs.

A way to organize shared teams, with shared calendars, instant messaging, and more.

A startup that helps companies test their messaging to ensure they’re turning customers into customers. A/B testing and analytics firm.

A company that uses artificial intelligence to help investors avoid certain stocks

Building a software platform for community managers in China

A startup that wants to make it easier for people with respiratory diseases like COPD and asthma to breathe more easily.

A startup that wants to bring the feeling of a “welcome wagon” to the internet.

A “complete-home automation platform”, with a home security, lighting, and HVAC system in one box. The startup is one of the first companies to be accepted into the InnovateHER program, and has a partnership with Amazon Alexa.

Employees that treat hiring like an automated data science project

A tool for school districts to track their student populations, including how many absences are being taken and whether those absences are needed.

A startup is building a data encryption tool for a specific use case: protecting data in transit between two

An effort to build a more efficient and humane way to process and store food for the future. It starts with a food-loss tracking app and is working on a connected fridge.

A startup that allows users to hire someone to help them organize their home

A company that helps freelancers and consultants manage their work. It’s currently in private beta, with plans to launch out of beta in 2019.

A cloud-based pricing model and price management tool for companies buying and selling online.

This’s the second time around for the company, which previously launched a version of its product in China in 2017, and lost most of its customers after the Chinese government blocked its service.

People who have a lot of stuff are often very stressed out. This startup is helping them clean out their homes, one item at a time.

A startup that helps companies and non-profits track their donations, using the donations as incentives to attract and retain employees. The idea is that the donations can be used as a sort of “pay-to-work” scheme.

A food delivery service that promises to deliver food to your door in under 30 minutes.

A digital tool for US colleges to create and manage their course management systems, from scheduling to tracking enrollment.

A startup that allows people to have a live video platform for their devices, including a small screen app.

A platform for finding and sharing data sets around sports, with a focus on finding statistical data sets.

A crowdsourced translation app that lets you leave a comment to help an Italian native translate an English text into Italian.

Connecting small businesses with their Facebook and Instagram audiences.

This is an on-demand dog walker business, with an app that allows users to request a walker with an ease of use similar to Uber.

A new way for consumers to buy music and pay directly to artists. Sounding is a new way for fans to directly support artists they like with a “tip”, or a donation, that goes directly to the artist.

A startup creating a video tool for learning that allows students to share comments, questions, and content, helping teachers capture and rewind complex information.

A crowdsourced security analyst team.

A startup providing a digital tool for workers to find and book their first job, with a focus on helping women.

This is a startup that builds a platform for on-demand, pre-packaged medical appointments. Today the startup has about 4,000 patients, with a team of five. It wants to get to $1M in revenue next year.

A toolset for companies to set up a custom, easy-to-use digital product. Rely on a team of consultants who are literate in your industry and can build a custom product within 48 hours.

A digital agency for large brands that wants to help them become more agile.

The startup, which was founded in May, wants to become the de facto “productivity companion” for people who want to do their own research and stay on the cutting edge of tech.

A startup that is building a new type of computer, which it says can make computing more efficient and easier to create.

A digital ledger for e-commerce transactions. The team works on the idea that all of the blockchain apps that have emerged in the last few years will eventually intertwine.

A software-as-a-service platform that helps companies create and manage their own digital campus directories. College Campus Connections is building its own platform to allow schools to create their own campus directories that they can leverage to recruit and more.

A SaaS platform that uses AI to find the most efficient way to handle enterprise business data.

An online tool that lets you set up an account in 15 seconds.

This is an API for companies’ internal data. The company has over 50 employees.

A small-batch, hand-crafted, and local whiskey company that makes four different liquors using small batch distilling.

A company that builds a system that tracks patients’ progress and their progress against the goals they set themselves.

A startup trying to solve the problem of finding cleaners who can clean between your walls, nooks, and crannies.

A startup that’s building a new kind of shopping cart that lets buyers seamlessly buy products at multiple sites without leaving the online store.

A marketing automation platform for B2B SaaS companies, touting a 1,500% growth rate in the past year.

A tool that makes it easy for brands to manage their sponsored content on Instagram

A platform for building connected home products with a focus on security and automation. The startup aims to compete with existing standards like Thread and Nest that can manage connected devices.

City-state management software company, enabling governments to be more dynamic, efficient, and effective. The startup was founded in May, and has over 50 clients nationwide.

This is a startup that’s helping companies organize and protect their intellectual property, pitching it as “GitHub for intellectual property”.

A platform that connects Etsy sellers with fashion brands and manufacturers. The startup’s aim is to help brands and manufacturers easily find and transact with sellers on Etsy.

This startup is building a platform that lets retailers customers buy and deliver products in real time.

A food delivery app for restaurants and food trucks, with the goal of helping them cut down on wasted food by bringing it right to the front door.

An offering that gives e-commerce businesses a way to track orders, which is particularly useful for online retailers in China and India.

A company that builds software to help health care facilities manage patient information.

A company with a single focus: climbing, running, and hiking. It’s a big problem in the US, with only 1 in 10 people living in cities with easy access to mountains. The company makes foot and hand grip strength and body weight training equipment and sells them in a subscription model in-app.

InVision is a platform and API for building digital mockups of products where members can collaborate and share designs, interact with others, and collaborate on projects. The startup is a cross between Slack and Microsoft Flow.

A small business loan marketplace for consumers.

A startup for ordering local delivery food from restaurants, with delivery promised in under 30 minutes. The startup has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding.

A 3rd party app that provides a way for brands to manage their influencer marketing programs. It’s meant to help brands determine which programs are working and which ones aren’t.

A conferencing app that connects people in real time. It’s already in beta with over 5,000 users.

A company that makes a social network for people who are visually impaired.

An online food ordering and delivery platform that uses an in-app feature to review restaurants and take reservations.

A company that makes a social network for people who are visually impaired.

A consumer-facing startup that offers a subscription-based service for finding and saving a place to stay.

A startup for online resources for writers. The startup wants to compete with OverDrive and ebrary by giving people access to a content library that is curated specifically for writers and writers’s needs.

An open-source platform for allowing any developer to build an on-demand movie ticketing app.

A platform that helps consumers find local products and services, and allows brands to reach out to consumers at scale.

A startup that wants to help colleges and universities adopt a more student-centered approach to their curriculum.

An online shopping platform that can help retailers find customers who are buying similar products.

Inseego is building a tool to help people build and customize their own online shop, a platform to help builders show off their work. The company is working with several builders and has built a custom shop on Shopify for a client.

A B2B service that helps companies manage their cash, payments and accounts via a single integrated platform.

A startup that builds and manages websites for businesses. Barter.com is an online marketplace that allows vendors and buyers to connect. The company helps them understand and take advantage of the benefits of the marketplace and acts as a liaison between buyers and sellers.

A product-focused company that helps companies in the developing world get products manufactured locally.

A Google-designed browser that makes everything on the web searchable.

This company is building a digital platform for building and managing groups of physical assets. It’s first products are intended to be used by real estate developers and property managers.

A tool for schools that helps teachers plan and manage their school’s communication. The company says it’s already used by over 1,000 schools and is growing fast.

A software product for sales calls that tracks the call for each person, allowing them to keep notes, monitor progress, and get feedback.

A startup that helps small businesses create a more productive work environment by letting them track employee productivity and workflows.

A software company that helps businesses in India manage their compliance with the new goods and services tax.

A startup that makes online payments easier for small businesses in countries where digital payments are still in its nascent stages.

A global marketplace for work opportunities. The startup aims to bring together people with work they can do remotely.

Build a digital community for college students. The startup wants to be the go-to place for students to find roommates, find jobs, look for housing, and more. One of the most interesting parts of the business is that the startup is actually building their own apartment complex, with all the services and amenities that go with it.

A startup that provides a service to help people in their 20s and 30s create a professional portfolio to help them re-enter the job market

A startup that helps companies use machine learning to assess the performance of their website. The startup’s product generates a report for each website it tests, showing which parts of the site are most successful and where performance is lagging.

A way to help people share and sell their assets, from furniture to cars, with a dedicated app.

A platform for managing multiple email addresses, groups, and more.

A company that wants to turn grocery shopping into a personalized, on-demand experience

A startup that is building a mobile app that can guide cyclists through repairs to their bikes, helping them keep their bikes in good shape.

A startup that wants to help retailers offer discounts to their customers when they spend in multiple stores

A way to help people learn how to create and design products online

A video-editing tool that lets users assemble clips from their camera roll to create professional-quality videos.

A tool to help content marketers and publishers plan, create and publish content, based on a universal content calendar.

This is a platform that lets companies manage the production of their own products.

A software platform for hiring temporary workers that helps companies run a more efficient HR process. The platform’s users say it saves them time and money.

This is a service for selling cheap tickets to events, it’s a cheaper alternative to Stubhub.

A company that is building a platform for managing “smart” cities. The company wants to create a tool that helps cities manage resources like energy, parking, and transportation.

This startup is building a platform for companies to manage all their sales deals. They can use it to track deals, manage deals, and manage deals.

A company that helps businesses manage their investments by using software to match them with the right funds.

A platform that helps universities and colleges reach international students, especially those who are shy or don’t speak English well. It helps them find the right person or organization to help them with anything they need while they’re there.

This app helps people find and book hair and nail services and services at salons, spas, and other beauty and wellness businesses.

A platform for selling products online, with a focus on fashion.

A healthcare service that provides a platform for human resources to view and search through the health records of employees. Providers can also use the platform to set up secure access for their employees, and then billing details are sent automatically.

A platform for fostering a community of local makers to teach and learn from each other

This app is building a platform for blockchain-based companies to accept payments and provide escrow services for their customers.

A charging station for electric vehicles that includes charging stations for both Tesla’s and Nissan’s vehicles.

A new kind of elevator for startups, allowing them to have private offices with WiFi, ergonomic desks, and multiple private conference rooms.

A platform for retailers and brands to sell directly to customers from their website, with the goal of cutting out the middle man.

A startup that builds robots that deliver groceries. The first robot is going into a store in Berlin in early October, and wants to expand to other countries.

AdExchanger ranked them as the #2 ad tech company to watch in May 2018, following their acquisition of Adform in September 2017. AdExchanger ranked them as the #4 ad tech company to watch in June 2018, following their acquisition of Rapportive in July 2017. AdExchanger ranked them as the #6 ad tech company to watch in July 2018.

A startup that connects auto repair shops and customers via mobile app

A decentralized trading platform for digital currencies, built on blockchain technology. It aims to make the digital asset exchange process easy and secure. The company is currently developing a desktop app for the blockchain and is in talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission about getting listed on a US exchange.

What if the internet let you check on your stocks, find a doctor, and pay your bills The company’s app connects users to the information they need, from financial news to local restaurant reviews. The company has raised $6.4 million in funding.

A company building an on-demand system for the real estate industry. The startup is in the process of developing a web-based platform that allows customers to book appointments with mortgage brokers and appraisers.

A startup that’s building a new type of computer screen — one with a rollable touchscreen that can be rolled up like a piece of paper.

A free web-based platform for creating and sharing 3D models of objects.

A tool that helps teachers share their “best practices” to students, and allow students to access them via video.

A software company that is building a solution for managing a client’s daily expenses, which they say is easier than using a spreadsheet or creating a budget online.

A SaaS provider that helps small businesses use their data to make strategic decisions.

A startup that uses machine learning to help companies detect and improve their software code. The startup is meant to help software development and quality assurance teams detect bugs and find ways to improve the code.

A startup that lets you do to your social media presence what you do to your personal email: use AI to curate your feed, and personalize it.

A tool for customers to pay for products and services on their phones, with built-in barcode scanning. Today the company has over 400,000 users and has seen similar traction to Square, though older.

A startup that helps managers find the right funding for their businesses. It uses AI to crunch financial data and recommend the right financing for a startup.

The company is building a tool to help students and families connect with counselors, with the goal of solving the “crisis of crisis counselors.”

A company that builds automated tools for teams that create online courses.

A tools for music producers and artists to record, mix, and publish their songs.

A startup that makes it easier for people to get paid, help them track and manage their income, and make sure they get paid.

A job-hunting app targeted at college graduates looking for work.

A tool that helps make it easier to keep track of your health, financial and work habits.

A startup that wants to improve the way companies navigate the court system, mainly through the use of a single app.

A content creation tool for marketing firms. The platform tracks an organization’s content marketing campaigns, and analyzes the performance of each.

A tool for designers to create interactive visualizations in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional software.

A platform that lets people deposit checks with a smartphone camera, without having to physically write a check.

A way to curate online content, letting users curate and share the best of the web.

A startup that helps users buy and sell goods quickly and efficiently across the web and mobile.

A tool that allows brands to sell their products through Instagram-like promotions.

$50 app that connects people with items they’re looking for (think Ikea showroom product search).

The startup wants to create a platform that helps entrepreneurs move their products from concept to production

A startup for meeting people for dates and dates for meeting people.

Decentralized marketplace that pools freelance services, making it easier for businesses to get things done around the world.

This is a mobile application that helps people find the nearest bus stop for their commute. It’s more than just a tool to find routes, the app also provides real-time alerts to riders who are nearby, letting them know when the next bus is arriving. Founded in June, the startup has plans to expand to other cities and has run tests in San Francisco and Minneapolis.

Diverse companies that have to deal with enormous data volumes are looking to make their data analysis more efficient with a hosted, cloud-based analytics service.

This startup wants to let people get paid for sharing and curating content, allowing them to set their own rate and be paid in bitcoin.

A company that creates a suite of applications for small businesses to automate tasks and shave time off their work week.

A startup that provides a platform to create and manage a custom “digital dashboard” for businesses.

A platform for selling and buying flash drives, through a single web site. The company is looking to enable content-sharing and product discovery.

A solar-powered furniture startup that makes furniture that’s both fashionable and environmentally friendly.

A platform for managing rental and credit card payments, with help for real estate agents. The startup is pitched as a general ledger for the real estate industry.

The software startup is aiming to make it easy for people to have a conversation about racism, white supremacy, and systemic oppression on their own terms.

A platform for managing multiple email addresses, groups, and more.

A food delivery service for restaurants. The startup offers customers a subscription model, giving them access to a $20-30 menu of food available between the hours of 8am and 2am.

A platform for building mobile games that lets you generate data for your game via crowd-sourcing.

A company that uses computer vision to identify objects and provide a simple way to find products that people are looking for. The company is launching on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

A credit app that allows you to save money on your utility bills by charging you for times when you don’t use your home.

An online learning platform that lets employees update their skills, and the company will pay them to do so.

A new startup that aims to bring the popular online chats of Twitch, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter together into a single video-based chat platform. They’ve built a Chrome extension that lets you embed Twitch, Reddit, or Twitter into a video chat.

A platform that allows people to buy and sell shares in the same company and for the same reasons (like a public stock.) The startup is working with a fund of funds to build a platform for this, and has $100,000 in revenue.

A social network for the connected car. It aims to make car ownership more accessible by providing access to smartphone-based services that include vehicle diagnostics, maintenance, and selling services.

A startup that helps people with difficult to manage health conditions (diabetes, heart conditions, etc) and helps them to manage their health conditions with reminders to take medicine, etc

A tool for creating, sharing and editing instructions for different types of products.

The startup’s goal is to help scuba divers understand the visibility of their masks, how to optimize their gear, and get the best fit for their face and face shape.

An API and a mobile app for Paypal. The startup aims to let Paypal users create personal online banking accounts and hold them in one place.

A web-based platform for executing and checking off tasks from a single dashboard, built for project managers.

"Authentic" is the name of an app that provides a secure, private and audited chat platform for businesses. The app allows users to create a private chat room for a group of up to ten people, with a group administrator who can add new members, delete or block members and monitor chat content. The company was founded by former Googler and Google Ventures partner Misha Chellam.

A startup that helps businesses that make a lot of money on Etsy — but that don’t have the time to manage their product listings.

A home care service that helps seniors find caregivers to stay in their homes.

An open source, cloud-based platform that allows companies to track and report on the performance and progress of people and teams.

A company that offers financial training to people around the world.

A startup that lets people control lights, temperature and other home equipment.

Closed-door meetings are a big part of how businesses communicate, but they can be inefficient, or even make communication harder. Fusic is an app which allows teams to use a shared whiteboard to brainstorm ideas and plan, with the idea that faster ideas can arrive at the right times, and lead to better decisions.

A startup that’s building a digital card for people who don’t have credit cards, allowing them to purchase goods without a bank account.

A blockchain-based protocol that allows the exchange of medical data, and allows for the creation of a "decentralized healthcare marketplace".

This B2B app connects companies with data center technicians and infrastructure engineers.

A startup that builds printers that are designed to look like plants, with wood grain and other organic details.

A company that makes business software for small businesses. In February 2017, Infusionsoft closed a Series B funding round led by Greylock Partners that raises the company’s valuation to $200 million.

A startup that matches people for daycare and nanny work.

A startup that sells local marketplaces for food, alcohol, and other goods to consumers. It’s been in the works for over a year, though they haven’t yet been able to launch their app.

A platform that helps companies make more informed hiring decisions by tracking candidates’ social media activities.

A startup that provides a service for helping people create a personalized time capsule

A company that helps businesses develop more effective marketing plans

A SaaS startup that helps small business owners by providing value-added services to their customers.

A company that helps companies get insurance coverage and benefits for their freelance workers. The startup has built out a marketplace and a compliance platform.

A startup that builds a virtual reality “smart glove” for developers. The startup wants to make it easier for programmers to use the “magical” gloves that can track the tiny movements we make when typing, and other gestures.

Idea: A tool for building serverless applications, but with a twist: it’s designed to make it easier to write serverless applications that are also APIs

A $20 payment card that can be used for anything, anywhere, and is good for 8 years.

A startup for crewing services, enabling customers to compare their needs with available workers.

A startup that wants to build a mobile payment system for merchants in the United States.

A startup that uses data to help banks better ensure the accuracy of their loans.

Intuition has created a connected digital device that can be used to help handicapped people with daily tasks.

A mobile application that helps companies create new products. The app helps companies create new products without any coding knowledge.

A startup that helps users find someone to take their kids for a ride, whether it’s to school, to a summer camp, or a doctor’s appointment.

An API for restaurants to help them use their ordering and delivery systems to deliver food directly to consumers.

This startup is looking to prevent the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito borne illnesses by manufacturing naturally repellent sunscreen that users can apply to their skin.

A digital wallet for Mexico and Central America. The company wants to be the “world’s first digital wallet” to help people move money.

Idea: A startup that helps engineering managers coordinate software development teams

Food-delivery service for the elderly and homebound that doesn’t require a driver.

A startup that offers a platform for digital nomads to rent out their homes in a peer-to-peer fashion. It’s in the early stages of development, but the founders say it will be “like Airbnb, but also a concierge service and protocol for renting out your home when you’re away”.

A crowdfunded fundraising platform for startups. The startup wants to help startups get better funding, and wants to do it by bringing together investors and startups.

A startup that helps companies automate the process of pulling together key customer data from their customer service and support teams.

A new startup that builds tools for freelancers in the creative and tech industries to help them get paid faster.

Idea: A new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded. The company calls itself “a new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded.” Users can watch videos to hear the story behind the product, or if they want, can touch the screen and hear the video narrated by a voiceover.

This company is building a service for restaurants that will help them manage their money and track the cost of food. The startup aims to keep a more accurate tally of expenses, which will allow restaurants to save money.

A startup that sells 3D printing services to the medical industry

A job board for data scientists - one that looks like LinkedIn.

A software company that provides a platform for small businesses to manage their workflows and projects.

A startup that wants to connect the world’s supply chains digitally, with the aim of increasing transparency and efficiency.

The idea: a startup that helps users find and order a caretaker for elderly relatives.

A pitch for a bunch of startups to start a Slack-like platform for freelancers that would allow them to communicate with each other and with clients.

A business platform designed for one-person businesses that helps to automate tasks, manage finances and make people more productive.

This is a software company that is building a tool to monitor and track the health of a fleet of electric vehicles. It wants to reduce the cost of maintenance and replace the need for a mechanic to come to the owner’s home.

A tool for understanding the many different ways in which people can make money online, such as blogging, affiliate marketing, and paid video production.

A digital agency that helps companies like Facebook, Google and Apple with communications needs in China. They launched around the same time as startups like Bird and Paper City.

A company that helps retail chains and radio stations travel agency and tour operators to create their own digital storefronts.

A startup that helps people find their perfect wedding band. The team has hired several wedding consultants over the past year, and has partnered with a jeweler in India to help find one.

Idea: A startup that helps brands and agencies plan out their Instagram marketing strategies. The founder is a former head of marketing at Instagram (who worked on its mobile app) and says that brands still have a hard time figuring out how to adapt their advertising to the platform.

A platform that helps you discover the best doctors and hospitals for your medical needs, and in turn, helps them earn their money.

An AI-powered service that takes live video from a camera and automatically analyzes it to help producers improve the quality of the video.

This startup is building a new type of monitor that can be worn while exercising or working out to help you see the world in 3D. The company says the technology is like a Google Glass or Oculus Rift, but is made out of plastic and has a lightweight frame. It also comes with a built-in Bluetooth speaker.

BluePoint is a customer service platform that helps businesses acquire, retain, and engage customers.

This startup is building a community for professionals in international business to meet and share best practices.

A startup that offers the ability to schedule meetings with anyone through Facebook Messenger. Social Calendar is an iOS app that aims to make scheduling meetings easier, with features like a calendar widget and a back-and-forth messaging system to make scheduling a breeze.

A software company that provides a platform to help people, companies and organizations enter and manage their POCSAG traffic data from their existing mobile phone.

A platform for people to rent their personal vehicles to strangers using a mobile app, similar to a ride-sharing service but for personal vehicles.

The startup’s co-founder says that their professional-grade coffee is formulated for office workers to “get their caffeine fix without getting jittery” and comes in breakfast, lunch and dinner varieties.

A startup that builds “training systems for people who don’t have the money, time, or training to learn”

A managed marketplace for people looking for care for people with special needs. The startup is a “high touch” operation, meaning it doesn’t just hope to make money but also wants to make a difference for people with disabilities.

A platform for homeowners looking to sell their homes, allowing them to easily list their properties for sale and hire a virtual agent to show the property to interested buyers.

A remote employee scheduling app for business.

A California-based startup that makes a low-cost, low-power, solar powered charger for phones and other devices. It’s a rival to the crowd-funded Fission, which offers a similar product.

A startup for sustainable tech goods

A “tame” version of a chatbot, with the goal of making it easier to communicate with the company’s marketing team.

A software company that powers the world’s largest video sharing platform. The startup helps users watch videos on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and others. It has over 2 billion daily active users.

A company that is building a service that allows brands to market to people in their social circle using their mobile phone.

Jet.com is a startup that will sell anything from household items to clothes to groceries to a single user, with no membership fees or minimum purchase requirements. It’s been called the Amazon of online shopping that will work on the ground. The company says it has 1.1 million active buyers already, and a $3 billion run rate.

A payments company that offers a way for small businesses to pay for their own invoices. The founders say they’re aiming to replace “payroll” software.

A platform that helps bring advertising revenue to “lower-budget” video creators.

An alternative to the email marketing industry, which is facing the threat of email overload. The company is building an email marketing solution that helps business send fewer but more targeted campaigns.

A startup that offers a health insurance product to protect homeless people in the UK.

A business-to-business company that creates and manages marketing campaigns to help small business owners reach their sales goals.

A company that provides a platform for small businesses to connect with their customers through a simple yet powerful mobile app.

This startup is building AI software that helps people find and rent the best fitting home for their needs. It’s designed to help people find homes, and it’s working with real estate agents and real buyers to launch the product.

The startup has developed an app that helps people find independent contractors for tasks like writing, editing, or graphic design.

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to leverage social media and e-mail marketing to build their brand and drive ROI.

A company that builds apps that help family members keep track of other family members.

A network of women who are interested in trading services/products online for fun, personal, or professional use.

A platform for streamlining “the most frustrating part of the hiring process” for businesses.

A platform that connects shoppers to their favorite brands.

A startup that brings professional care to those who can’t afford it. The startup has raised $4 million to help those in need.

Only 1% of all workers in the US have their overtime legally included in their paychecks. This startup wants to be the alternative. They’re building a mobile app that tracks time and automatically computes overtime pay.

A company that has built a platform that allows users to send and receive messages in real time, and is working with the likes of Taco Bell and Starbucks.

The startup makes a smart eye mask with a bluetooth connection to your phone. The startup says “the only thing that can disrupt your sleep is the sound of your phone ringing.”

A startup that helps employees scan and organize their company’s medical data. The startup also created a tool to help admins manage their health data.

A platform for building and selling quirky, graphically-enhanced, personalized T-shirts.

A tool that lets users easily build their own content management system from scratch.

A startup working on a new communications protocol for decentralized networks. The company aims to build a network of devices that can communicate without relying on centralized servers.

A startup looking to reduce the amount of time it takes to create and deploy music to online platforms. It’s a subscription based service, with pricing based on how often the band would like to upload.

A startup that helps build and nurture websites or mobile apps

Drawing on the insights from the most-read articles on Medium, this startup is building a toolset that lets writers and other creatives see who’s reading their work and how.

The startup takes advantage of the fact that people often have to use their iPhones for multiple things, and wants to make it easy to manage multiple tasks at once. It’s a collaborative task manager for people who frequently use two or more devices. It’s treating its first paying customers via its crowdfunding campaign.

A team of marketers in Silicon Valley developed a new way for companies to engage with customers on social media. WorldFace takes a team of human marketers who can comment on users’ posts and posts themselves to a Slack channel, where a bot then follows along.

A startup that helps small businesses get a loan at a traditional bank, at a lower rate.

A gourmet food delivery service that aims to cater to the needs of people with serious food allergies.

An in-app messaging app for professionals that allows them to communicate in private with clients in real time.

A company that wants to bridge the gap between internal teams and customers. They allow companies to do customer interviews via email or phone, which they then turn into a survey.

A SaaS platform for digital advertising, which allows advertisers to manage their budgets and deliver more personalized ads by understanding the intent of the consumer. The startup says they have $5-6k in revenue since launching in May.

A chat app for kids that infuses video into the app. The startup’s founders have a background in animation, with one of the founders previously working on the "Finding Nemo" sequel.

A home monitoring system for seniors with the goal of helping them live independently for longer.

A platform that makes it easy for companies to host virtual teams that work from different locations. The startup is working with Y Combinator-backed startup Galvanize.

Helping people give and receive feedback about their brands, the startup uses a combination of surveys, text, and video to manage brand perceptions.

A startup that’s working on a way to integrate human and machine learning workflows. The company wants to help companies do human-based AI as well as machine-based AI.

A startup that wants to build the “Netflix for streaming”. It runs a Netflix-like service for streaming videos, but with a more limited selection.

A system that allows small businesses to manage their supply chains more efficiently, changing shipments as needed to fit a customer’s needs.

A platform that helps workers find jobs and employers find workers.

A startup that makes data-driven content recommendations, selling it to advertisers.

A tool for HR departments to help their employees find and apply for jobs, ranging from sales to marketing.

A tool that helps developers buy and sell licenses to their software. The company wants to be the “Acme of software.”

A cost of living comparison tool for millennials

A platform that makes it easy for companies to test the performance of their marketing campaigns. It’s a data-driven platform that shows the impact of different marketing channels and lets companies easily see how changing the mix of campaigns affects performance.

A SaaS for freelancers where employers can buy, track, and manage the work of freelance workers.

A startup for city-dwellers to browse, buy and sell locally produced goods.

A company that provides online selling tools to companies that are already selling online.

A smart lock with a built in camera and motion detector, perfect for renters and vacationers who just want to lock the door.

Bringing good food to your kitchen and your home.

A startup for hotels to fill rooms quickly with the best available rates.

A software company that hopes to make it easy for Indian businesses to accept online payments.

A digital exchange that matches buyers and sellers of digital products.

A startup that helps you to create a database of all your friends on WhatsApp so you can instantly message without them having to add you.

Custom holograms for marketing campaigns, allowing companies to create holograms of their logo or product that can be used for promotions, company events, or even as stickers to mark employees in the office

A digital assistant for the home, bringing together control of lighting, audio, and security into one platform, along with a series of smart gadgets.

A financial software company that builds tools that lenders can use to manage cash flow and loan payments.

Idea: The first hardware investment platform that allows investors and inventors to reach each other

A platform that allows restaurants to create reservations in real time

Bingo is a new way for people to watch live programming on their phones, without paying for a cable subscription. The app works with a subscription to the streaming service Hulu.

A company that helps connect users with movers, whether it’s for students moving into a new apartment or for people moving out of an office.

They’re the modern version of a “grocery store”, with a storehouse of over 400 in-demand items that can be added to a wish list. They’re free for consumers, but can have a fee for businesses with 500 or more items in stock.

A healthcare startup with a team of radiologists and a product that brings an imaging tool to the patient’s bedside.

A food delivery app that lets restaurants offer free delivery on orders over $25. It’s testing this in Nashville.

A local delivery business that can pick up your groceries from your local grocer, or your mail order from Amazon, and bring them to your doorstep. The service is geared towards people who are too busy to make their own shopping trips.

A startup that lets you get data on your workforce from multiple sources and into one place

A white-label content marketing platform for brands and retailers.

A technology that allows you to receive a text message with a code that lets you know when your package has arrived. It’s similar to the Amazon Prime Now service, but for local stores.

A company that helps its customers to “reduce the friction” between their customers and their employees by using a distributed ledger called Hyperledger.

A self-driving platform for the automotive industry, the startup claims to allow car manufacturers to build cars that can be steered by a human driver, but that can also navigate on their own in the case of an accident.

A digital assistant that helps you complete tasks, like finding a restaurant, booking a table, or helping with a reservation. The assistant is currently only available in the US, but the company wants to expand to more countries.

An ecommerce platform for food that’s grown organically and locally with a focus on freshness and sustainability.

A startup that aims to make it easier for people to access health care without worrying about high costs. The startup wants to create a more seamless experience for patients with insurance covering more than 80% of health care costs.

A startup that lets you make a digital video in VR and then export it, so that you can share it with friends and family.

A company that creates community management software for small businesses to help them with customer acquisition, customer service, and communication.

A company that lets businesses forecast demand for their products. They’re currently doing predictive maintenance for industrial equipment.

A registered nurse who is also a social entrepreneur wants to build a startup helping companies with HR and payroll tasks.

A tool that allows users to sell their data and use the proceeds to buy other apps or things. The startup is trying to be the Facebook of apps.

A startup connecting companies and people who have to deal with outdated or damaged machines.

A new kind of grocery store that takes advantage of the fact that many people can’t shop alone. The concept is that it’s one person browsing the store while the other is cooking.

A protocol that helps create custom experiences for wearable devices

"A startup for augmented reality games, where players can play games together regardless of their location or device, and compete for world rankings."

A company building a platform for the buying and selling of digital and physical property.

A portfolio of startups focused on building products that make it easier to follow the money.

“A social network for talent”, where job-seekers can post profiles and connect with companies that fit their skills and career goals.

A SaaS startup that makes it easier for retailers to sell products, including their own, via email. The company wants to help brick-and-mortar stores convert to e-commerce.

A way to automatically track and analyze a person’s social interactions with others, with a goal of helping them improve their relationships and live a happier life.

Skoolie is a software platform that lets you create, manage, and use a network of student-run vehicles. The startup lets parents create a fleet of cars and manage them via a cloud-based app. Parents can also help their students learn the importance of driving, and earn a little money on the side.

A startup that sells a monthly subscription box of all the best products from Kickstarter each month

A startup that provides a way to store and manage patient records, with a focus on the overworked physician.

A startup that uses AI to make you feel like you’re getting a better deal on your car insurance.

A set of tools for creating virtual reality experiences.

An online learning platform that uses computer vision to teach people how to code

Idea: A startup for tracking and keeping tabs on the cost of a medical procedure. The idea is to allow patients to shop around for prices, and also to provide a level of transparency that many hospitals don’t have.

A startup that helps people who have trouble remembering dates and times to add them to their calendars automatically.

A visualization tool that can be used to easily compare things like health savings account benefits, retirement savings and credit card rewards.

A new Uber-like platform for on-demand delivery. The company plans to use the same technology that powers the on-demand delivery app to streamline the process of getting food delivered to your home.

A “social network built for the modern millennial”, with features like a group chat, a profile page, a newsfeed, and social networking features to connect with nearby people.

A more secure way to share sensitive data with other companies and partners in an IoT scenario.

A chatbot for the fashion industry, which helps clients find samples, find stockists, and query fabric.

A customer service app that allows businesses to respond to inquiries in real-time.

A log analytics company that wants to turn the data from the billions of rides taken every day by its customers into actionable insights for its customers.

A startup that wants to help banks deal with "intermediary" services, like payroll and benefits.

This startup is developing the first FDA-approved small animal pain drug.

A platform for companies to fund startups in exchange for equity in the startups.

A company that allows people to create customized “banking services” for themselves, from getting their paychecks directly deposited to arranging overdraft protection or making payments online.

A subscription business that sends you a box of everything you need for a vacation, including items like wine, cheese, and a new toothbrush.

A startup that helps small businesses create data and marketing plans that will be more effective and generate more revenue

A tool to help you set up your own business without having to learn a whole new system.

Zulberry is a mobile payments and commerce platform aimed at growing business in emerging markets. The company wants to become a more effective digital alternative to cash.

wants to be like LinkedIn, but for the world of work. It’s a targeted, global social network for businesses where data is shared automatically.

A debit card payments system for corporate clients, built specifically for software products.

A web app that helps people keep track of all the things they’ve bought online.

A data-driven organization that helps non-profits with data analysis. It’s team of researchers and researchers will perform data analysis for charities, so they can focus on the most effective ways to raise money and encourage donors to give.

The “Hacker News of the South” is a regionalized version of Hacker News, the popular tech news aggregation website.

A mobile app where people can donate money to artists or bands that they like. The startup is working with artists like N.E.R.D., KATY PERRY, and SEX AND THE CITY.

A company that helps clients find qualified customer service agents.

A platform that connects people to community service projects near them, with a web-based platform and mobile app.

Idea: A startup that lets you gift someone the ability to see the world, rather than a specific destination. The startup has 2 mentors and 7 founders, all of whom have traveled the world and are building an online community of people who are making the world a better place.

This fitness startup is helping customers optimize their workout routines after analyzing information about them through their Fitbit wristbands.

This startup helps businesses find customers in the Philippines by allowing them to advertise products and services in the Philippines by word of mouth, in an effort to beat the competition.

This startup is building a mobile payment solution in India that’s optimized for lower-income users. It provides a way for merchants to accept the main payment methods in the country.

A job-posting system for businesses, helping them find and hire people.

A tool for scheduling and estimating repairs. It currently has over 2,000 customers in the UK.

This startup is building a credit scoring system that combines traditional FICO scores with an algorithm it’s using to predict the likelihood that a person will default on a credit card.

An Android app that helps small businesses find and book talent like a more efficient version of ZipRecruiter.

A startup for selling home goods. Things are sold from the company's warehouse, shipped to the buyer, and then the item is sold on Amazon.

A way to save money on growing herbs and vegetables. Users take a photo of a plant, and the app can determine the optimal conditions for growing it.

A startup that helps fund education for kids in low-income communities through crowdfunding.

A system for keeping track of and organizing your food, in the same vein as the company’s app, Wunderlist. The company says the app is used by 75 million people.

A startup that wants to help people who are trying to sell their cars The startup connects people with potential buyers by making a marketplace for

A joint project of the US Department of Agriculture and the National Park Service, which is trying to create a mobile payment system for parks.

A tool for creating and sharing a digital portfolio

A “workplace transformation“ company that helps companies bring together members of different teams and give them access to other team’s data and projects.

A video software company that lets users record and edit video in a web browser. The startup wants to make it easier to create and share videos without the hassle.

A startup for real estate professionals, pitching itself as a Google for real estate agents.

A new way of making yogurt. Instead of a starter culture, they grow the yogurt with probiotics.

A decentralized prediction market, looking to use the power of the blockchain to bring more transparency to public wagers. The startup already has a partnership with the NBA to use data on player performance to create more stable markets.

A startup that aims to make a service for college students that helps them find and pay for housing, then pay it off through a loan.

A platform to build, publish and share content, connecting all the right players in the supply chain.

A startup that’s building a video chat app for people on the go. The startup is building a chat app that works on both Android and iOS.

One of the most ambitious startups at Demo, Abhi makes a “facial recognition” security system that can be installed on home doors or windows to let you know when someone tries to come in.

A company that builds an ordering platform for farmers to get their vegetables and products to market faster.

A startup for recording and sharing gameplay footage, enabling faster, more accurate collaborations between developers and players.

A platform that helps companies use the internet of things to monitor their buildings

A startup that sells a subscription service to teach people how to use their smartphones

A new way to treat cancer, using a bone marrow transplant to reprogram a patient's own cells to attack and kill cancer cells.

A platform that helps people find good people to work on projects with

A small team of developers who specialize in both front-end and back-end development. The startup is looking to build a web platform to integrate data from other sources into Tableau. They’re currently $5,000 in debt.

This startup is currently in a working prototype stage. It seeks to connect companies with licensing partners and business partners at all levels of the supply chain.

A company that provides paid mobile data for people on limited data plans, which it says is the only one in the US. The startup has raised $2.3 million in funding from investors including Y Combinator.

This startup is building a technology platform that allows customers to connect, share, and sell products from all industries, from apparel to cars to furniture.

Productivity software for the tubular time management band, a $15 rubber band that helps users set goals and stay motivated. The product is a physical, wearable software product that syncs with the band.

Helping businesses in the US and Europe with their international tax obligations.

A tool for managing your social media accounts, allowing users to see their entire social media feed on one dashboard.

The startup wants to build a tool to help employers manage their workforces, using algorithms to calculate and monetize various work hours.

A new way to get enterprise-grade security for all your cloud apps using orchestration from a single source. It’s a security automation tool that promises to make security management easier for companies of all sizes.

Building a bot for managing an indie game studio’s social media. The startup wants to help indie games studios manage their social media accounts.

A startup that wants to use AI to help companies understand and predict human emotion, potentially improving the way they advertise, design products, and market their services and products.

A startup that wants to make it easier to remotely and securely manage and update home and office devices.

A startup looking to provide a new way to search CSV and JSON files. It aims to provide a simple and easy-to-use interface to view, organize and search data in real-time.

A mobile-only bank account for Brazil. A tiered account that allows individuals to pay bills and receive transfers.

Patient-centric software (software that helps patients take better care of themselves) that helps people manage their own health data.

A platform that lets the company’s members trade stocks without the distraction of on-screen trading.

A platform that provides education at a lower cost, with a focus on “smaller companies that don’t have the resources to deal with the expense and bureaucracy of traditional college”.

A startup that helps people save money on bills and utilities, by connecting them to companies that can offer deals to them.

Web-based real estate platform that connects customers with property brokers and developers.

A “remote headquarter solution” that provides a virtual office for employees who work from home.

A company focused on doing the same thing as Freshbooks, but for freelancers.

What it is: A chatbot that lets people find and hire freelance specialists. The platform aims to work with a wide variety of professionals, including interior designers, virtual assistants, and even personal trainers.

A platform for managing the complex relationships between buyers and sellers in the modern supply chain.

A platform for calls-to-action on social media, allowing users to quickly share a button on their Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat profile that drives traffic to a website or app. The site has more than 5 million active users.

Customer support software, aimed at wearable tech and health care providers.

A student loan refinancing platform from Y Combinator alum Brick Road, launched in August with $10 million in venture funding. Brick Road talks about helping borrowers get lower rates than the ones offered by banks, and promising a “low-cost, low-equity” funding source.

A tool that helps with all aspects of booking training and events. It helps you find venues, speakers, and attendees, and generates an end-to-end proposal for pricing and payment.

A chat-based recruitment platform for recruiters that allows them to manage and publish their job boards, and manage the conversations that take place on them.

A financial services company that provides loan payments and collection services. The startup is now profitable and has a $4.5 million valuation.

A company that helps with home repairs and renovations, letting customers research and book local contractors

A “smart ring” for the elderly, built on a similar model to the Fitbit. They’re not yet available.

A startup that connects consumers, who want to buy organic produce, with local farms.

This startup uses technology to help small- and medium-size businesses process credit cards. It’s currently in beta with 100 small businesses.

Launched in April, a company that helps restaurants streamline their food ordering and payroll process.

A startup that wants to help banks deal with "intermediary" services, like payroll and benefits.

A “social media productivity tool” that helps you get everything done by prioritizing tasks and scheduling them out.

A CRM that helps small businesses set up recurring revenue with tools for customer management, marketing, and sales. The startup wants to make it easy for small businesses to set up recurring revenue models, and charge customers monthly.

A platform for paying people who do things like plow your driveway and mow your lawn.

A digital tool for finding properties for sale, with a white-label version for home sellers. The startup is also building a tool for selling houses as well.

A system that brings together everything from a company’s website, social accounts, emails, past financial records, etc. under one place.

The startup is developing a global network of “Barista of the Future” in 20 countries where them will be a barista in a coffee shop, and they earn a living wage. The program is designed to provide baristas with the skills they need to run their own business, and to help them start their own locations.

WayUp wants to combine job listings with social recruiting to help connect job seekers with employers.

A SaaS offering that helps banks integrate their checking accounts with their mobile apps.

The idea here is that you can build the game you want, rather than having to buy a pre-defined set of games for your kid.

A graduate of Y Combinator and Google Brain, a startup spun out of Stanford’s machine learning lab that wants to make machine learning accessible to researchers by making it easy to train models without having to write code.

An AI that helps power the “emotional intelligence” of retail stores, which are expected to grow in importance.

A workplace application that automatically analyzes emails to determine which emails are the most important and should be answered immediately. It’s trying to replace the traditional “email triage” process with a more targeted process that says, for instance, “take care of these 10 emails first, then this one”.

A mobile app for mobile marketers and companies to easily manage their ad campaigns.

A data platform that helps detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud on all payments. It works with banks, Venmo, and Western Union.

A startup that helps users visualize their money and investments in a user-friendly way, helping them see where they’re spending their money and then allowing them to take action to make changes.

A Y Combinator company that helps entrepreneurs build their business with video.

An online subscription service for local newspapers and magazines.

A startup that helps people create, distribute, and sell music online. According to its founders, there’s a $30 billion music industry in the US, but it’s almost entirely untapped in the digital space.

A platform that brings together the best of e-commerce, wholesale and retail, with an emphasis on high-quality products at the best prices.

Idea: A peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange that lets you trade without a centralized exchange

A platform that integrates with healthcare providers to find communities and provide feedback on their needs. Its goal is to bring community health and quality of life to this underserved population.

A whiteboard app for collaborative brainstorming.

An all-in-one, cloud-based HR software

This startup is building software that converts all the photos you take on your phone into a web app that can be shared with others.

A physical card that can be used to charge software as a service, like SaaS, subscriptions and free trials.

A company that sells custom-made T-shirts for its customers, and has partnered with a number of companies like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Tapatalk to offer exclusive designs.

A startup that is building a platform that allows its users to connect their accounts on different websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, with the goal of creating a platform where their data is stored in one place.

A way to make bus stops more efficient and integrate real-time bus information into Google Maps

A company building a marketplace for providers of clothing, accessories, and home decor. The startup aims to eliminate the middle-man and help customers find the best deals, no matter if they live in São Paulo or Seattle.

A platform that brings together the local food community, including farmers, chefs and restaurants.

An accelerator that helps women in tech get funded

A company that creates a secure file sharing service for the enterprise, with a particular focus on the financial sector.

A company that will sell you a ticket on the blockchain.

A company that builds the software enabling people to create and sell virtual goods to each other.

A startup that’s creating a “chatbot” for HR. The startup is currently working with companies on the backend of the recruiting process.

A platform that helps people with small car loans get lower interest rates

A home-sharing platform for students on the move. It allows students to rent out rooms in their homes for short periods.

The goal of the company is to replace the lack of dedicated parking spots for delivery people by creating a “park and pay” system.

A system that allows companies to manage corporate accounts and payments

A company that sends workers out to measure sites for a precise fit for solar panels

A startup designed for salespeople to sync sales calls with their sales history, history of sales calls with their customer, and push out daily reports.

A startup for remote teams to communicate and collaborate, allowing them to access virtual spaces and tools for the workplace.

A startup for book authors, publishers, and fans to help them get their books into libraries.

A digital solution for children to manage ADHD.

A company that helps you track down your lost luggage and helps you make sure it’s not been stolen.

A self-driving car startup that’s raised a $5.5 million Series A.

A startup building a platform to let healthcare providers share data, allowing them to see what other services an individual is using and work with providers to maximize their use of services.

A web-based platform that allows users to create and manage custom-made credit cards to make online payments. They also offer an API for customers to build their own solutions on top of.

A tool for helping people pay off their student loans. The company has already started paying off over $3 million in loans for people who took out their student loans in the 1990s.

A company that lets companies on the go track their employees’ productivity at the office by using a dashboard that they can access on their phone. The startup aims to make work more efficient.

A company that helps designers create custom-made leather goods for clients.

A way to remotely monitor/control smart technologies using a mobile app.

A web app that helps people keep track of all the things they’ve bought online.

The answer is not entirely clear. Startups that are working to solve a business problem have the least success of any type of startup.

Web app that will help you keep track of how much time you spend at the gym.

A startup that provides a service where people can buy single-use items like baby wipes and toilet paper for their next camping trip

A tool that helps small businesses connect with customers. The company’s founders say that the company’s users have saved over $500,000 by using the tool.

A startup that wants to add “biometric security” to inexpensive smartphone cameras, so the camera can be opened and the phone stolen by an attacker. The startup is working on the technology, which relies on an in-built fingerprint scanner using a touchscreen to unlock the phone.

This startup is building an app that helps you browse and buy clothes in a world where it’s hard to find a style you like. At launch, the app will feature over 1,000 brands from across the world, but the plan is to expand to everything.

A tool to help recruiters identify the best candidates for each job. For instance, if an ad says a certain job is in Chicago, the tool can look up the average salary and job openings to determine if this job is a good match.

a global digital health company. The company’s platform is designed to convert health data into insights that can be used to improve health outcomes.

A tool that helps people create a website using a single drag-and-drop interface. The tool is aimed at people who don’t know how to code — and it’s being used by companies like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.

Fostr is a marketplace where people sell their unused clothes. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding and says they’ve sold over 30,000 items in the last two years.

A way to find and hire the best contractors in San Francisco, the founders say.

A startup that helps people who like to receive packages from Amazon.com and other retailers, but don’t want to pay for the delivery service. They use the company’s free-delivery service, Prime Now, as well as U.S. Postal Service.

A startup that wants to bust the myth that just because you’re over 40, you’re not likely to find a job.

A social network for restaurants, startups and developers. It’s a platform where restaurants can find users to fix their tables, answer the phone, and do general upkeep.

A startup to help people make good financial decisions by presenting them with an income forecast for every month of a job and helping them see how much they need to save for retirement.

This startup helps online retailers capture customer data when someone visits their site. It helps retailers track how visitors move through their site, how they interact with ads, and what pages they visit.

For the past two months, the startup has been building a platform that helps people find jobs, with a focus on the job seeker. The solution is built on an AI that scours through job listings, and a platform that allows job seekers to better manage their resumes.

A tool for helping people learn a new language. The startup is launching in early August.

A startup that aims to be a hybrid of Slack, Gitter and Discord, featuring a notification system that lets you know when a team member is available, or if they’ve left the room.

A company that provides apps for the healthcare industry, to help doctors and nurses be more efficient. The platform includes apps like digital medical records, electronic health records, patient education, and clinical documentation.

A company that creates software to help companies analyze their business operations and get insights about how their business is performing.

This company is working on a prototype to help people get around cities via autonomous cars. The startup is working with auto manufacturers to get cars that can be controlled by a phone app.

A startup that’s building a hybrid of Uber and Airbnb, a peer-to-peer hotel booking platform. The startup is building a mobile app that allows users to find, book and manage private rooms, in addition to a marketplace for services.

A group of four college friends who decided to start a company to help create a more efficient way to source and manufacture electronics. The company wants to be the first company to completely eliminate the middlemen of electronics manufacturing and create more manufacturing in the U.S.

A platform for managing supply chains for small businesses, connecting them to factories, distributors, and suppliers. It’s currently working with factories in China and Vietnam.

A tool for your business to see what you’re spending on payroll.

People often get sick in the winter, and the startup wants to help manage those colds and flu. It’s looking to build a platform that provides real-time tracking of colds and flu.

A startup that helps recruiters connect with the right candidates through a database of engineering graduates, with a twist: the startup’s algorithm finds the best fit for each job, rather than the recruiter. It’s still in stealth mode

A social networking website where people can post pictures and videos of their cats

A platform for independent artists to market, sell, and discover art. Creative Market has over 2 million users, so they want to help new artists set up their own store to sell their work.

A startup that’s building a service to help hedge fund clients make better decisions by providing active asset allocation models.

A company that helps people buy real estate, financed through a small down payment, with the rest financed through a refinancing plan.

A web-based, cloud-based app that helps organized people, called “Mavens”, manage their life, including shopping, to-do lists, etc.

A class for the next generation of U.S. military officials to help them reach their full potential.

A way to make sure that everyone who needs medical treatment receives it, regardless of where they live. It’s currently in its seed round with $75,000 in funding.

A portfolio management app for freelancers and agencies.

Idea: A startup that uses AI to help restaurants optimize their menus, ensuring that no item is priced too high or too low for the quality that it offers

A business analytics software company that wants to help companies make better decisions and build better products.

A way to help people make better decisions in healthcare, by making it possible to compare the cost and effectiveness of different treatments.

A visual platform to help users track their health and wellness, from fitness, to medication, to food, etc.

A startup that helps schools and universities establish open data programs to promote transparency and accountability.

A personal concierge for people living in cities who want to rent homes in their neighbourhood.

A digital assistant for businesses that works across various platforms.

A software suite that allows customers to watch their “spam” folders in real-time, allowing them to see which social media accounts are actually sending unsolicited messages.

This company, together with the MIT Media Lab, is developing a 3D printer that can print any object with a human face.

A social platform for the food industry. The startup wants to be the platform for all of your meal prep activities, from shopping to cooking to shopping for ingredients.

A startup for temporary workers for cleaning and other services.

A home energy provider to customers who want to cut their bills. The company wants to make the process of switching energy providers as easy as changing your phone plan.

A startup that aims to help companies find the best talent for each job. They are based in New York City.

The startup helps people sell their second-hand products online, with the process integrating with eBay.

This startup is building a tool that helps restaurants manage the costs of delivery, predicting when customers will order and then using predictive analytics to ensure food is available when they need it.

A subscription-based service that helps companies digitize products and products in the process.

A company that helps businesses organize their gifts and offers for clients, as well as events and employee recognition, to save everyone time and money.

A way to organize Facebook groups, particularly those that take after the real-world meetup and community model

A platform that allows people to track their spending habits and budget. It also allows for easy creation of budgets and goal tracking.

A company that wants to help people find and book cheap accommodations.

A startup that wants to take the pain out of booking a flight. The cofounders, who hail from three different continents, say they’ve been able to eliminate the pain in booking a flight by combining the data from various travel sites.

A free messaging app that is meant to replace Slack.

A digital assistant for the home, bringing together control of lighting, audio, and security into one platform, along with a series of smart gadgets.

A startup that helps connect the dots between a person’s social media profiles with the businesses they frequent, enabling them to see the whole chain of connections.

A startup that allows employees to manage their income, expense and banking information. Small business owners that pay their employees in cash have to manage a number of paper documents to keep track of those payments. Hatipol, which was founded earlier this year, is building a system to do this more efficiently.

A messaging app that allows users to send cash with no fees.

A startup for insurance products. The startup works directly with insurance companies, helping companies get quotes and make money on the deal.

A programmable lock that can be used by consumers and businesses to control access to their homes, offices, and cars.

A personal concierge app for hiring and scheduling personal trainers. The company takes a 20% commission on all sales.

A startup that helps a family navigate the health care system when a loved one is sick

A startup that lets you upload an image and text and automatically turns it into a professional-looking business card.

A startup that combines the power of a CRM and a service-level management tool to help companies manage their IT infrastructure.

A CRM for retailers that uses machine learning to predict consumer behavior and then recommend what products to sell based on their past purchases

A tool for creating collaborative music. The startup wants to provide a new kind of music making experience.

Humaniq wants to provide a system for users to buy and sell cryptocurrency, using mobile phones. The startup is building a mobile banking app that allows users to buy, sell, trade, and hold funds in cryptocurrency.

A third-party insurance company that offers $0 monthly premiums to customers who pay in full every month.

A Chinese startup that wants to help people learn English faster and easier. The startup writes questions and answers on cards and puts them on a string, which people can play around with. And their idea is proving popular in China, with a million cards sold in three months.

A cloud-based e-commerce platform for restaurants, which also includes a loyalty program, recipe sharing and ordering, and a restaurant finder.

A “transaction-based” social network, where people can follow others and interact with them through messages. The startup has already signed up 500 users in the US and has plans to expand internationally in the coming months.

A platform to help nonprofits raise more funds, with a model similar to Kickstarter

This startup wants to use its data to help people decide where to vacation, and where to live. It’s a bit like other startup like TripAdvisor — but it’s also a concierge service that wants to help show people the best places to vacation and live.

A home-based financial education company for low-income families. It aims to teach families about budgeting, saving and investing.

A ride-sharing app for the elderly

A tool meant for teams to create and manage action plans to increase productivity in the workplace. It’s a tool that organizes the information you need to be more productive in a way that’s easy to understand.

An AI civic engagement platform. The startup aims to help develop AI tools that can be used to create citizen-driven initiatives for public health and development.

A platform for remote workers where they can share their workspace, access to tools and other resources, and can build the work environment they need. The company recently received $1.75 million in seed funding.

Idea: A startup that is building a mobile app, where you can invite your friends to play games with you, and earn money.

A free online platform that allows consumers to give feedback on products and services before they purchase. The startup, which was founded in May, wants to provide an easy way for consumers to provide feedback to brands before they purchase.

A secure, automated email-based system for handling sensitive transactions. They’ve built a tool that uses the public keys of people’s email accounts to take payments and even file taxes. The founders tell us they have $6 million in funding from participants in Y Combinator and have received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from YC.

A program for non-profits to get funding from investors.

Helping consumers to find the best mobile carrier for their needs, and help carriers mitigate churn.

A company that helps restaurants, bars and coffee shops optimize their ordering process. The startup’s platform lets customers search for locations, get delivery options from there, and track orders.

This is a book publisher that helps authors make money from their work, by selling digital and physical copies to readers, then compensating authors with royalty payments on each sale.

A startup that helps businesses with building products that can be launched on Shopify.

A simple, online platform for paying bills.

A startup that wants to take on Slack, the chat app that connects teams, by offering a version of Slack for small teams.

They want to make personalized recommendations based on the consumer’s “patterns of behavior.” The idea is that you can use this to make better purchasing and service choices, like learning why you always get the same brand of coffee each morning and getting them to send you something else.

Idea: A startup that is making a new type of surface that feels a bit like paper but is actually a plastic material This material can then be molded to make all types of different things, like a fridge that can be rolled up The surface is also programmable, so it can be made to change color or texture when a button is pressed

A company that creates a “virtual assistant” that helps users manage their finances and other daily tasks.

E-learning platform that’s focused on helping new parents learn how to take care of their baby.

A platform for managing your online connections, including social media, email, and other online contacts.

A joint project of the US Department of Agriculture and the National Park Service, which is trying to create a mobile payment system for parks.

In mid-July, the startup said it has already raised $1.5 million from investors including Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures. It’s working on a similar product to Facebook’s Onavo.

It turns any mobile phone into a live ID, and promises a “one-tap verification” that will be accepted by a growing number of retailers.

A company that wants to help people find a way to use a home like a hotel. People can rent out their home for a day, two weeks, or longer, with Airbnb-like booking options.

A company that’s building a credit scoring system that predicts consumers’ creditworthiness, then helps them build a credit score.

A platform for booking appointments in physical offices.

A startup that helps users decide which brand of shampoo to buy, using data from its own tracking of shampoo sales.

A social enterprise that provides equipment and support to the developing world for the production of sustainable, high-quality, locally-sourced products.

A consumer-focused fintech product that combines BitGold, mobile payment, and cryptocurrency. It’s available on iOS and soon to be Android.

A startup that allows people to create and host mini-conferences for up to 20 people.

A startup that’s building a tool for creating interactive 3D models of objects, which are then easier to ship. The company wants to help them more efficiently use their 3D printers.

A way to connect people to their favorite brands and products, whether it’s a local, mass-market food item, or a designer handbag.

A platform that connects borrowers with financial services and technology to transform the way they borrow and pay. They have a $2.5M seed round and are close to a round of growth.

This startup is building an app for communicating with other people with Parkinson’s Disease, which enables users to create “scripts” with their movements for specific tasks.

A platform that connects car dealers and automakers to help them sell, advertise, and service new cars and repairs and replace existing ones.

A platform for connecting people to their favorite foods, which will help people find new foods they might like. The startup’s developers have been known to check out new restaurants and talk to restaurant workers to understand the space.

A social network for antique collectors and dealers. It helps users find and buy and sell antiques, matching them with people who have the same taste.

is a platform for selling used textbooks and keeping college students accountable for their books.

A startup that wants to make banking more like social media. The startup is building a “challenging” banking experience that integrates notifications, product recommendations and social aspects. A new way to bank that would be more like checking your Facebook stream for information and then making a purchase.

A platform that helps employers manage remote workers. It also provides HR services.

A tool for building visual content for your website.

The startup is building an API for retailers to offer their customers the ability to pay for their purchases with their smartphone.

A tool for managing and tracking expenses for small businesses. The app facilitates the creation of invoices, expense reports, and other business forms.

A French startup that makes it easier for people to get their hands on medical marijuana. The startup wants to make it easier for people to get quality medical marijuana, even if they don’t live in a state where it’s legal.

A digital concierge service that connects users directly to local service providers for personalized service.

SaaS product for keeping track of financial assets.

eMailmerge is a “content management system for email and documents”.

A dating app for the elderly, for the first time giving older adults a way to look for love in their own neighborhood. The app is designed to be easy for the elderly and disabled to use, and have a handy feature that lets them order from their favorite restaurant.

In the spring of 2015, Y Combinator launched a branch in San Francisco as its first outside of Silicon Valley. It also expanded its new branch to Berlin, London, Toronto, and Madrid. By 2017, Y Combinator said it had over 150 active startups on its program.

A meeting scheduler for small businesses. It’s designed to be easy to use for simple scheduling, and free for five people. The founders say that they’ve got customers in the Bay area, and plans to expand to the East Coast in the next year.

An employee scheduling app that integrates with the company’s CRM.

This is a digital platform that helps kids and adults learn ways to manage their money.

A “smart” box that allows you to monitor and predict nutrient absorption from your food and ingredients via the latest tech.

A wearable device meant to help people with visual impairments navigate the world. The startup is looking to deploy its product in the US and UK, and has raised $2.5 million in seed funding so far.

A startup that helps companies better attract and onboard talent in order to build more scalable teams.

A startup building a system to give small businesses a better way to keep track of cash flow.

A startup for freelance work that connects project managers with developers, designers, and marketers.

A tool that lets software developers build and share reusable code snippets.

An investment platform for retail investors.

The company is building an AI-powered platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically identify and recommend products to customers.

A startup that provides a service that allows people to coordinate rides to and from events. The company says they have $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue, with a potential to hit $200,000 in revenue in 12 months.

A B2B platform that lets businesses find the best rates for background checks.

A startup that lets users “check-in” to any retail location and receive a discount or free gift. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.

A network of local farmers, distributors, delis, grocers and restaurants that allows consumers to share what they’re eating and where they’re getting it. It’s a sort of “eat local” app, but rather than trying to force the idea on people, it’ll be a way for people to voluntarily connect over food and share the experience.

A standalone browser that integrates with the Slack team chat app. It allows users to create polls, polls that can be used in other Slack channels, and even polls that can be customized to display a specific emoji when they’re answered.

A startup that provides a service where people who are interested in buying a home can hire someone to walk through homes that are for sale to tell them if they’re a good fit

They’re a blockchain company that uses a smart contract to help companies manage collateral and loan payments.

A company that claims to be "the world’s most automated job application platform."

A software company that helps companies build new websites quickly and easily. It has helped companies like Kiva, IBM, and Airbnb build websites.

A new app that allows users to “virtually” connect with a well-known psychologist. The app

Dash is an app that helps you save money on gas by combining your gas usage with your car’s fuel efficiency. It’s a way to put a real dollar value on your gas usage.

A tool for developers to get track of what’s happening in their app, with a series of reports that show you how many users have opened your app, how many users have closed it, where those users are coming from, and how they’re using your app.

A startup that allows you to create a “move” between friends, effectively turning a video call into a video-text-chat.

A startup that provides digital wallets for everyday purchases that work across different markets.

A data platform that helps detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud on all payments. It works with banks, Venmo, and Western Union.

A startup that sells a tool to help someone prepare for the Spanish or French exam required to get a driver’s license

A startup that helps small businesses and individuals who are planning to start a business find resources

A software company that helps aid agencies in the US and the UK to create and maintain their own systems for engaging and networking with their community.

A startup that allows users to pay bills and data plans by sending SMS messages. The founder used to work at Groupon and is raising $1.4 million in seed funding.

Tech that helps build companies in the US that are startups in other countries. The startup’s founders say that over $500 million is being raised in new funds in the US, but only $10 million is being raised in these other countries.

A way for companies to increase their B2B sales, the startup wants to use a combination of machine learning to identify inbound leads and then text them to see if they’re interested in a demo.

An AI platform for investing in stocks and managing portfolios with a focus on behavioral finance. The platform is built around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI-powered algorithms, and it’s focused on finding out how people really invest.

PowerMeter is a smart meter data company. They want to provide “a data-driven mobile application for consumers and businesses that uses data from the smart meters to provide insights about power consumption, cost savings, and energy savings on a monthly and annual basis.”

A startup that helps people track the carbon footprint of all their purchases and help them find ways to reduce their carbon footprint.

The startup is building a first-of-its-kind digital repository for homeowners, allowing them to record, organize and track their home improvements, which they then share with others using an app. The company is currently in a beta for its first 100 users, with plans to launch in early 2020.

A predictive analytics tool for all businesses, including SaaS ones, that aims to cut down on customer churn.

A startup that wants to build a system that helps patients get more affordable, higher quality, and faster-acting healthcare. The startup is starting in the UK and Ireland.

A platform that connects shoppers to their favorite brands.

A company that offers loan products to small businesses at a lower interest rate than banks

A California-based startup that aims to use data from its app to improve medical care.

A system that can monitor and optimize the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

The company wants to make it easier for people to sell their old games online with a digital storefront, and also make it easier for people to get paid when they find bugs in games.

An easy way for techies to share development projects

A company that helps athletes compete in eSports.

A startup that wants to help people sell more stuff on Facebook. It wants to build a plugin for Facebook that allows sellers to add a call-to-action to their ad to get someone to call them.

SaaS business that connects women and their partners to maternity care. They’re headed to Y Combinator’s Demo Day.

A startup that offers an experience for individuals to create an article that could be shared on the internet. The startup hopes to use these articles to inform people about how they can protect themselves from the flu.

This startup is building a way to collaborate on documents in real time.

LendingClub is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company that aims to cut out the middleman lending market by allowing borrowers to connect with each other directly. The company’s P2P model is based on an algorithm designed to match borrowers with lenders. P2P loans were responsible for $2.7 billion in loans in 2017.

A technology that helps lower-income people from taking out loans to pay for college

A $10 app that turns any smartphone into a learning tool.

A way to help people navigate the process of buying a home.

A startup that lets you create videos and images with text in the background in real-time to create what’s called a "Voxel" — an image with a 3D representation of a text sentence.

A “social investing” platform that helps people compare portfolios of funds and track performance over time. The startup seeks to make it easier for investors to compare funds, and is targeting the $1.7 trillion retail mutual fund market.

This startup aims to help people personalize, track, and share all of the data on their cars and other vehicles.

A community for women in the 21st century

Creates software for small businesses to create and manage their own online store. The company is offering a cloud-based platform that gives businesses a set of tools to create an e-commerce store without any coding knowledge.

A company that’s building a tool for road construction contractors to manage capital expenditures, project management and billing.

A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to use a centralized accounting system to keep track of their finances. Redbooth is designed to be a tool for small businesses that don’t have an accounting department and may not have even started keeping track of their finances yet.

A platform for helping non-profits and social enterprises connect with their customers.

A startup that aims to help nonprofits better track donations, gain more funding, and convert their biggest donors.

A platform that helps people easily sell used furniture, household goods, and other items.

A startup that helps people who want to move to a smaller house

A platform that allows drivers to earn money by sharing their knowledge of different cities.

A software platform that allows small businesses to create branded chatbots. It’s an “app store for apps” that allows small businesses to create chatbots.

A platform for creating and publishing podcasts, automatic transcribed interviews, and other audio-only content, made for consumption on Apple’s podcast player iRadio.

A company that allows people with chronic pain to receive prescription refills with a text message.

This is a tool for creating and managing custom e-commerce solutions on the Shopify platform.

A tool that allows people to collaborate on projects with AI, potentially resulting in fewer bugs and less work for developers.

As part of the BizCloud startups program, this company’s idea is a simple spreadsheet that makes it easy for people to organize their business ideas in a way that benefits everyone.

A startup that helps people find a place to get a beer or a cocktail after work

A management platform for small businesses that wants to help companies grow. The startup says it’s already working with over 300 businesses, and is helping them improve their customer acquisition, sales and retention.

A startup that wants to send your food back to the restaurant so you can get a refund.

A tool for companies to manage their various customer support departments. The company has been around for a few years and is active in the UK marketplace.

A “simple, secure, and customizable” solution for tracking and keeping an eye on employees.

A platform for small factories in Asia to manage and grow their supply chains.

This startup is building software to help companies sell their unused (and often untendered) real estate. The startup claims to have negotiated nearly $50M in deals in the past three years.

A product design studio that helps brands create more appealing products. They’re currently focused on a few brands, but plan to branch out.

A data-driven consulting firm that focuses on organizational growth and management.

A company that wants to build a hardware-based solution to the security problem of the internet of things. The startup wants to build a chip that can secure a device through a physical security system.

This company is looking to build a platform that allows companies to license their software, and then bundle it with services like a data center, software development, or SaaS.

A self-driving car startup that is building an “airport-as-application” for managing travel.

A way to organize Facebook groups, particularly those that take after the real-world meetup and community model

An ad platform that uses AI to help publishers sell their inventory. The company is hoping to compete with the likes of

A company that aims to simplify the process of buying and selling used goods online in the US, and in the UK, with the aim to make it easier than eBay or Craigslist. The startup currently has 2,000 members, each paying a monthly fee.

A travel platform that lets users book hotel rooms from the same app they use to book flights.

A startup for selling products across web and mobile channels.

A startup that aims to help people save time and money and make the most of the internet without spending much time on the internet.

A startup that is developing AI-based tools for drug developers to test their drugs in a highly controlled lab setting. They can perform controlled trials on an even smaller scale, and

A startup that wants to build a cloud storage service that’s actually useful. The company wants to build a storage system that’s useful for organizations, not just consumers.

A small, family-owned business that sells and installs windows and doors. The business doesn’t have a website, so they’re counting on this campaign to help them grow their business.

A platform for remote workers, offering all the perks of a traditional office, including lounge space and good coffee, and many more.

A startup that sells a service where they send you a text message every day with a new quote or thought to get you thinking

A company that’s “building the easiest way to finance business.” It’s working with a handful of customers to help them raise capital.

A genealogy app, marrying family trees and genealogy.

A mobile app that allows employees to check in remotely, find their coworkers and learn about their whereabouts, and see how far away they are.

A company that provides the tools for the more than 1 million people in the US who are self-employed and earn less than $50k.

A platform for creative agencies to aggregate and manage data on their clients, and for the clients to see how their creative is doing.

A multi-service platform that helps retailers grow sales and loyalty through loyalty card programs.

Ideas are posted on the semi-annual application days. The startups are given a 5 second pitch followed by a 2 minute response. The judges will choose the top-5 ideas to

A B2B company that is building a system to manage the progress of service calls — it uses AI to predict when a service call will be needed so providers (like plumbers) can plan ahead.

A startup that helps companies send out encrypted emails to employees, and their families, that only employees can read and employees can only see them.

Online platform for building decentralized applications, allowing teams to build their own apps and run them with a simple API.

A software company that helps companies build biometric scanners for access control. The startup is using machine learning to build a system that can quickly identify someone by comparing their fingerprint with a database of millions of prints.

A tool to help power the operations of a new generation of Internet of Things devices. The company’s founders have been building IoT products for a decade but are now looking to bring their expertise to a new platform.

A peer-to-peer lending company that helps non-profits raise money for their operations.

A bank account for small business owners that builds off of the popular social network Huddle. The startup is building a way for small businesses to connect with each other and build relationships with banks, suppliers, and other businesses with which they do business.

A startup that lets customers book appointments online. It has served 800,000 users since launching in August 2018. It will have a team of 10 by the end of the year, with a $2.5 million seed round led by Grishin Robotics.

A tool for building custom, customizable, 3D models of things.

Calculates the amount of oxygen your blood is carrying, and tells you if you're at risk of getting a heart attack or stroke.

A mobile app that uses crowdsourced data and AI to improve real-time messaging on messaging apps. The startup has raised $6M in funding to date.

This is a software platform for housing associations, which give communities disabilities and demographic data. In the past year, the company has grown to serve over 3,200 housing associations.

This is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide insights about people’s emotional states and wants to use the data it gathers to develop emotional intelligence-based services.

A gaming and entertainment company that builds audio and video streaming MMORPGs for connected devices.

A startup that monitors and schedules potholes for cities on a contract basis.

A way to automatically sell your old stuff on eBay, using big data to determine what you’re likely to buy again.

A social media management tool that helps companies optimize their Facebook page.

A local news app that curates the best stories written about the neighborhood, city, state, or country you’re in.

A startup that builds software for financial advisors to give them visibility into how their clients are doing.

A platform for schools to share resources, build a community, and budget using cloud-based software.

Works with retailers to provide VR-based training for customer service and merchandising

The company says it’s a tool that makes it easy for people to examine their own online data and discover trends in the data, and then automatically download and share the data with other people in the company.

A company that brings together companies that need staffing to fill positions with people who need a job

The startup provides white-label software for managing medical records, helping hospitals and clinics keep up with their paperwork.

A startup that helps developers build apps that can be shared, with a focus on grouping events together.

Makes it easier for freelance developers to get paid.

A simple way to keep track of your bills, from groceries to utilities, or to calculate monthly payments by combining several bills.

A company that wants to be the go-to agency for companies that want to grow their brand on social media.

SaaS software for companies who want to manage their Facebook or LinkedIn pages.

Idea: Sales Prospecting for People Who Hate Sales

Loose talk among friends and coworkers about work and life. You can learn a lot about people by what they’re discussing, and what they’re saying is more than just idle chatter. This startup wants to make that sort of content available to employers and HR departments.

A platform that helps people build custom AI into their business processes. The company wants to use AI to automatically generate data for business reports.

A startup that will let you order a custom-built PC from a selection of parts.

A software stack for claims processing. The company, founded by a former legal executive, aims to reduce the cost of claims processing by 10-20%. It has raised $5.1 million in funding.

A dashboard for tracking Facebook ads to see what works, and what’s not working.

A startup that brings professional care to those who can’t afford it. The startup has raised $4 million to help those in need.

The company’s client list includes brands such as BBDO, Union Bank, Accenture, and Yahoo, and its primary product is a service that helps webpages load faster.

This startup aims to help people use AI to understand their financial and professional performance and improve their earnings.

A secure, easy to use cryptocurrency wallet

A health insurance program for low-income people.

A startup that allows users to keep track of their car insurance payments, then automatically pays the insurance company.

A new version of the Blockfolio app that offers a single dashboard for all your cryptocurrency holdings, as opposed to the current fragmented ecosystem of apps.

This startup is looking to replace the insurance model with a “personalized protection plan” that will cover an individual’s insurance needs over time. The startup will help consumers assess their risks and choose the best coverage.

An insurance company that works with small businesses to help them buy health care to cover employees while they’re on the job.

A tool for coordinating group projects

A startup that aims to help keep track of all the activity happening in a company’s Slack.

In the 2017 Philadelphia Startup Week, 10 companies were featured.

A tool that helps manage coupon code data.

This startup is building a system for merchants to monitor their sales and customer data from multiple data sources in one place.

A mobile-first and global B2B marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in a bid to decrease the cost and time of international trade.

This startup is building a network of thousands of assistants who are the point of contact for people who need help with their health. The startup’s founders wanted to create a version of Amazon’s Alexa that could help people manage their health.

It’s a service to help consumers and investors invest in cryptocurrency and crypto-based companies.

This is an app for tracking your nutrition, fitness, and health goals.

A company that wants to make it easier for publishers to keep track of their subscribers. Currently, publishers need to pay for a service to keep track of their subscribers and for them to be included in a report.

E-commerce startup that allows shoppers to buy groceries and other products directly from brands and merchants.

This startup wants to build a network of AI-driven chat bots that tap into Slack to help customers make more informed decisions.

A startup that lets you take a selfie and it will show you your ideal hairstyle, skin tone, and outfit.

A company that helps users make the most of their commercial parking spaces with a customizable experience that includes payment and, uniquely, a concierge-like experience for their visitors.

A startup that helps people make a living from their passions by allowing them to share photos and videos across different platforms to create a living wage in the form of subscriptions and licensing fees.

A platform to help small businesses build a website with a straightforward drag-and-drop content management system.

An online video platform for learning film making and production

A company that tracks data from cameras around the world to spot patterns and build out a framework around that data. The startup will use data from its network of cameras to detect and respond to crime, as well as generate business intelligence for all sorts of retailers.

A digital platform for buying and selling things to other people.

A B2B company that wants to automate robo-banking and provide loans to small businesses.

A social network for elderly people to check in and view pictures of their friends and family. The startup has already helped its first customer, a family member, locate her father and communicate with him (via text) over the phone.

Helps create custom gift cards for any occasion

A startup that lets companies link their websites with their social properties and their email newsletters.

A company that makes reusable plastic shopping bags that are 100% compostable.

A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.

A startup that wants to provide a platform for content creators to easily manage and monetize their content. Their first product, “Recitations,” helps people create audiocasts with their voice and facial expressions, and their other product, “Sketch”, allows creators to create animated videos using their own drawings and illustrations.

A company that’s trying to solve the problem of how to get information from a decentralized public database like Ethereum to a centralized database.

Asana is building an application for managing recurring meetings in a way that makes it easy for both attendees and hosts. They’re building out a dashboard for meeting organizers that helps them schedule meetings across personas and different time zones, and alerts them when meetings are about to start or end.

A startup that helps people find a job where they can be themselves

A startup for people to get online-only TV channels. They currently have 1,000 subscribers.

A job board for architects and contractors.

A “blocks” app, a place where people can collect, organize and share images of their favorite locations.

A new way to create animated GIFs using just a phone or a webcam. The startup is building a GIF creation tool that’s made entirely of HTML5 code that can be run in a phone browser.

A platform for customers to customize the fit and feel of their clothing, the startup was founded in October of 2018 and has an iOS app that launched in November of 2018

A startup that wants to provide a platform for retailers to sell their products on their own websites and market them via their own social media channels.

This startup helps identify fraud in the ecommerce industry by identifying network traffic patterns that indicate a high level of fraud.

A platform for social good data. The startup is looking to connect NGOs, businesses, and individuals into a real-time social impact community.

Building software to help small and medium sized businesses in the US manage their relationships with their vendors and track their credit.

A conflict management software for law firms and organizations.

An ad network that focuses on under-served demographics, focusing on users who are under 18 and worth around $600 to advertisers.

A funding platform that offers loans to startups

A startup that aims to help people save money on airline tickets with a service that shows you how much money you’re spending on each ticket and tells you which tickets you can cut or cancel.

A system that helps companies have conversations with customers via automated SMS messaging.

A startup that builds a game and community to get people to give homeless people the things they need in order to get off the streets and into permanent housing.

A digital marketing company that helps clients like Natural Grocers, GNC, and Clearblue.

This startup is building a platform that helps sports teams track players’ health and performance in real-time. They are hosting a hackathon for developers to build the tech they’ve been developing in stealth mode.

A startup that helps people create and sell custom clothing through a web browser without having to design the entire garment from scratch. Loom wants to help consumers sell their clothing as a service — it’s essentially an Uber for fashion.

A startup that’s building a toolset to help companies build a customer lifecycle. By tracking things like a customer’s first interaction with the brand, their engagement, and their final purchase, a company can better track how their customer is used across the brand’s products and services.

A tool built for the Eureka moment in startups when they need to figure out their sales strategy.

The idea is to create a platform that allows companies to manage large expense accounts and seamlessly track whether they are being used for legitimate business purposes.

A SaaS sales app that helps salespeople and managers track sales pipeline, resources and pipeline capacity.

An SaaS platform to help companies manage their complex legal needs, including document management and analytics.

A startup in the fitness-tracking space that’s giving people an app that provides them with on-demand workouts. The startup is selling workouts that are already designed by a group of experts, for $12 a piece.

A company that wants to help people, businesses and governments coordinate emergency response, evacuation and shelter operations around the world.

A tool to help companies manage internal communication issues with a dedicated Slack channel.

A startup that aims to connect investors to mutual funds. The company wants to make investing more accessible to people who don’t have a lot of assets.

A virtual assistant that handles customer service and product support for a company’s small business customers.

A startup that gives you the ability to make transactions at physical stores using your phone

A tool for finding and hiring full-time, live-in housekeepers

An AI-powered, real-time news site that helps users stay up to date on what’s happening in the world.

A digital whiteboard for in-person meetings, allowing people to draw on their mobile phones to create drawings and notes.

Y Combinator’s newest batch of companies has expanded the YC Network to over 200 companies, including 50 who’ve raised a combined $325 million in capital.

Builds an accounting software for small businesses, helping them to save time by consolidating all of their accounting systems into one dashboard.

A “high-touch” sales and marketing automation platform.

A machine learning company that is working on sophisticated facial recognition software for use in retail.

A startup that’s building an AI camera to replace the human one that’s on every camera.

SaaS for event planners, that helps them plan, promote, and manage their events.

An artisanal facial scrub for your face, which promises to give you a "clean, clear, and healthy complexion."

A social network for people who want to make money by sharing their skills and talents. Users get paid by companies that want to hire their talents as well as by clients, and they can also apply to become clients if they want to pay for their services.

A way to get instant quotes for home repairs and improvements, then pay them on the spot.

An incentivized reputation platform for projects

Builds on the Chariot ride-hailing app for major cities in North America. The company says it’s adding more and more supply every day.

A platform for sharing stories about people’s experiences with depression and anxiety

A startup that helps make it easy for brands to send out an email to their customers after a sale is complete.

A startup that makes it easier for people to find a lawyer when they need one

A software platform that stores and shares your memories in a private, secure and public-facing format.

A way to make videos that is geared toward the Indian market.

“The last mile” of ride-hailing apps is the last mile to a person’s home. The startup wants to build an app that helps people find a driver to take them home.

A feature of the company’s software for managing supply chains.

A company that helps overcome the threat of a patent lawsuit from a patent troll. They’re working on a system to help you determine which patents you’re actually violating, and what it’ll cost to license them.

A content management system for travel websites, allowing them to sell content to companies that they can’t sell to directly. The startup also offers a tool for managing content on the web for travel companies.

A startup that’s building a chat-based platform for small businesses. Its platform is similar to Facebook Messenger, with the ability to chat with employees and customers.

An AI-powered text editor that helps you write more consistently

A blockchain startup that wants to help banks determine if a person is a bad risk, based on credit history.

A startup that helps senders and recipients of ransomware in the US to split the cost of a ransom if they’re unable to pay.

A student loan refinance platform. The company is looking to partner up with large banks to refinance student loans.

An adtech company that enables brands to reach the most relevant people on social media. The company is working on the front end of how social media ads are shown and paid.

A cloud-based platform for home-surveillance systems built on personal computers.

A Y Combinator-backed startup that wants to create a platform where users can access a virtual assistant helmed by AI.

Food delivery service that has ambitions to be the Uber of urban food delivery.

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The startup is building a facial recognition and computer vision system, though their first product is a “smart camera” that scans the faces of pedestrians, then recommends the next person they should follow.

A dashboard for restaurants to monitor their food sales, accounting for everything from the inventory of ingredients to the hours that employees work.

A subscription-based service that helps small businesses with customs clearance, shipping, and other shipping-related issues.

The bizbuzz app is an app that allows users to quickly connect with potential clients. The app is free to download on iOS and Android.

A mobile app that helps you send emails from your mobile device.

A startup focused on user-friendly music discovery. The startup wants to create a desktop experience around music discovery that will allow users to browse and listen to songs, and also see what others are listening to.

A startup that’s building a location-based search engine for restaurants, highlighting the cuisine of a city via an interactive map.

A software platform for the digital health and wellness market. The startup is focused on helping people manage their health and wellness through a mobile app and an accompanying digital dashboard.

A mobile app that allows customers to directly order products online from brands, with the retailer taking a cut of the sale.

We do so much screening and sorting of our work email in Outlook. Omnifocus is building a tool for that: a built-in email manager that allows users to view their inbox as it’s being composed, and then jump around quickly to a bunch of different projects with a click.

A platform that lets you share the things you love with the people around you, helping you find new contacts and discover new things to love.

A health care startup that creates a doctor-patient relationship before a doctor is ever contacted.

A company that’s a Slack alternative, designed to be more intuitive and user friendly.

A startup that makes it easy for companies to develop and distribute their own apps, without the need to hire an app developer. The startup is a platform that connects app developers with freelancers and other companies who can help with things like development, marketing and design.

A subscription-based platform that gives you access to a network of experts and information, including legal and financial advice.

A way to measure water quality in a complex ecosystem using sensors and cloud technology.

A personal assistant that can handle all of your social media accounts, and be a helpful tool for your personal brand.

Transact is a platform that connects brands with fans via social media, allowing brands to target fans and offer rewards.

Grid wants to make energy consumption more transparent, by giving customers a meter on their home in a box, and then giving them a way to manage their energy consumption.

A real-time payments system that collects transactions as they occur in order to clear them instantly. The company launched in June.

A tool for tracking expenses for business travelers, allowing companies to charge employees for their travel expenses.

A company that provides global data analysts with insights into consumer trends in real time. The startup is growing its team and expanding globally. It has raised $2 million to date from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and CrunchFund. It will be based in San Francisco.

A local delivery business that can pick up your groceries from your local grocer, or your mail order from Amazon, and bring them to your doorstep. The service is geared towards people who are too busy to make their own shopping trips.

This startup is building a B2B platform that connects freelancers and agencies with manufacturing manufacturers.

A pizza delivery startup focusing on the college market.

It’s an app that helps doctors and patients connect via video conferencing to streamline patient care, which the startup says has saved the lives of patients in need of surgery.

A community of and for people who don’t like to login to the internet. A social networking site for users who are interested in meeting up offline.

This startup is working on a service that promises to create a digitized version of your personal library, which you can then share with friends to read, sync with Dropbox, or print.

A platform that enables consumers to easily find, purchase, and securely receive the products they want

A platform that enables people to buy and sell things like furniture, cars, and apartments, and rent out unused rooms. Borrowers can use the platform’s software to manage the loan, and borrowers can access the property remotely. The platform is currently focused on the UK.

The startup is building a shared customer management platform, where sales reps can share their customer relationships with one another and get access to more information on customer accounts.

Last year, I wrote about how some of the most successful Y Combinator companies are focused on solving the problems of the modern worker, like home care, transportation, and education. The most successful YC companies are built on the idea that technology should be helping workers, not fighting them.

This startup is building a system to help engineers understand the best ways to program to particular chips.

A company that sells cool kitchen tops and pours that promote healthy eating habits

Idea: A startup that is building an end-to-end solution for businesses making hardware to help them get funded and bring their product to market. They want to automate a lot of the backend work needed to launch hardware like creating a company and getting funding.

A system that integrates all the different payment systems used by businesses.

The startup is building a platform that helps companies connect with a workforce of industrial roboticists. It has 4 customers signed up, including a commercial drone company and a company that makes industrial robots.

A software company that brings AI to the process of hiring software talent, to help businesses make better decisions.

"Growth Hack" is the second-most cited book on Amazon.com, after The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

This company is working to reduce the environmental impact of transit and bikes.

A software platform that helps recruiters manage employee communications and workflows more effectively.

A startup that provides a suite of mobile-first eCommerce tools to help drive business growth. They’re building a platform to help brands create a single, seamless customer experience across all sales channels including online, mobile, social, in-store and in-app.

A local delivery service that uses the power of group buying to bring the price of a meal down to a single total cost per person.

A startup that’s built a platform for a new type of app that runs on users’ smart phones.

A tool that helps users manage and make sense of their data, and act on it more effectively.

A new way to manage and pay employees.

A unicorn-founded startup that focuses on empowering workers to manage their own payroll and benefits.

A way to track the progress of project management and billing from the end user,

A digital platform for managing and organizing the PTO requests at many places. The platform uses artificial intelligence to help employees make requests and track which ones get completed.

“The most affordable and fully featured machine learning platform on the market, from the creators of the world’s best-selling machine learning book,” the startup says.

A housing startup that’s building a “blockchain-powered” rental platform, to help individual agents and investors rent out apartments.

A startup to help companies communicate with employees, customers, and partners.

A way to make videos that is geared toward the Indian market.

This startup wants to make online real estate investing more accessible to millennials, with a platform that helps investors manage investments and track performance.

GreenStone is a B2B company that wants to help companies make better decisions about energy usage. They’re currently working on energy efficiency projects with large companies like Apple.

A company that wants to help companies and individuals save money by giving them a way to get better prices for a range of products, from auto insurance to cable TV.

An insurance company for athletes and an app that helps them manage their health.

A startup that’s changing the way companies work with their contractors. You can enter into a contract with a contractor, who can then select from various projects to work on. The startup wants to help companies identify the right contractor for the job, and then manage the relationship with the contractor.

An ad network for the ad tech industry. The startup is working to make the industry more efficient and more profitable. They’re hoping it will work with publishers as well as advertisers.

A digital platform that helps small and medium-sized enterprises in the retail sector find and hire new and existing employees.

A company that wants to turn grocery shopping into a personalized, on-demand experience

An AI-driven shopping assistant that helps users find the best deals on products they want to buy.

A platform that aims to improve the way universities and colleges manage their student information.

A tool that makes it easy for companies to figure out who is using their data, and what they are doing with it.

A Waze for real estate. This startup wants to help people find the right home for them, and sellers get access to a broader set of buyers.

A startup for people to buy and sell their personal products in exchange for a commission.

A startup that makes software for the healthcare industry

This startup is building a 3D model of a city based on historical and archaeological evidence.

A platform that lets you create event tickets without having to deal with printing, mailing, or shipping.

A tool that lets you track and share your work on "Slack-like" platforms.

A startup that sells phone cases where the back of the case can be customized to show a picture of your child

Cloud-based software that helps manage business travel.

Small but growing business that helps retailers and restaurants get paid faster

A startup that builds apps for people who want to compare pricing and options between public transit agencies.

This startup aims to help chatbots learn from user inputs and be used in a number of enterprise use cases.

A startup that aims to help college students get answers to their questions about their health. There are an estimated 1.5 million students with health questions and a very limited number of resources to direct them to.

A startup that helps people manage their finances and credit scores. The company offers mobile credit monitoring and a personal finance management tool.

A digital tool for remembering things, aimed at customers with memory deficits.

A startup that builds a developer toolkit for chatbots, which also helps businesses to better establish their chatbot strategy.

A company that makes data visualizations and dashboards for use by marketers and other companies.

A startup that helps you find free and cheap parking in NYC, Baltimore and Los Angeles. It’s already live in NYC, and will expand to LA and Baltimore in the coming months.

A tool for employees to give feedback on their managers in real-time. The B2B business is meant to help companies recruit and train their employees better.

A digital toolkit that helps companies better manage the complexity of their supply chains.

A consumer-facing platform that enables publishers to curate content for users with the goal of increasing interaction with content and driving more revenue for publishers.

A restaurant reservation platform that connects customers and restaurants with an AI bot.

An open API for healthcare providers to connect with each other to create a single network. Hopefully, it will help solve the problems of data silos and the like.

A modern database for workbooks, with a cloud-based tool for creating, editing and sharing workbooks.

This startup’s platform allows people to turn their home into a shared office space.

A company that wants to sell tools used for computer-aided design.

A virtual assistant that helps you prioritize tasks and stay on top of your inbox.

A startup that helps small businesses market to homebuyers. Their product is a “premier content marketing platform” that utilizes detailed data about a dozen variables, including income, credit score, and the type of property they’re looking for.

A B2B company making international invoicing and payment tools.

A freelancer platform for the film, gaming, and advertising industries.

A London startup that helps drone pilots track down lost drones.

A credit card designed to help people who don’t qualify for the best cards.

A company that helps technicians and technicians-to-be learn how to repair basic electronics.

Want a pager You’re out of luck, you have to go to the office to get one — but your colleagues have them. Proximity is a startup that lets you order a handheld pager for $15 a month that’s delivered to your home.

A startup that helps companies with the creation and maintenance of a “Smart Home”. The company’s services can help set up a smart home, or train an existing one on how to be smart.

A startup that’s building a “Netflix for movies”. It’s an online service that offers instant streaming of hundreds of thousands of movies, and is currently only available in the US.

A real estate toolset that helps investors, brokers, and sellers collaborate more easily.

A business that will help people sell their junk cars, investing in the process. The company takes a cut of the sale, and will also buy back the car from the owner so they can donate it to a charity.

A startup for vintage clothes, with a focus on selling vintage clothes to customers who can’t find what they want in stores.

A startup that sells iPhone cases that are super protective (IE has a military grade case and is tested to withstand drops of 6 feet)

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to identify patients’ symptoms and offer suggestions on how to treat them.

Business software for small and medium companies. The company says it’s working with more than 1,000 companies in the US, Brazil, and Canada.

building a tool to help small businesses manage their paper files, like sales invoices, in a way that’s really convenient for everyone. The startup’s CEO says that they’ve already sold their product to three big companies.

A startup that helps big retailers manage a large number of different call center operations. The company says it has been able to save retailers over $100 million a year in labor costs.

A company that says it helps teams collaborate better by combining the project management and collaboration tools found on Slack and Trello into one. They’re currently selling a $50 per month plan.

A venture-backed company that is creating a new, cloud-based platform that helps manufacturers manage and track inventory.

A platform that helps improve the user experience of customer support and sales. The company wants to help companies make better use of the technology they have.

Focused on the e-commerce business, Coder is building a platform for people to manage, control, and monitor their web properties. The startup provides tools to help build more efficient websites, as well as payment and shipping solutions.

A company that transforms truck trailers into workspace for creative professionals.

An API platform for ride-sharing drivers. The startup is building a platform that lets drivers manage their schedule and track their earnings.

This startup is building an online platform for musicians to sell and promote their music, and to connect the next generation of musicians with their fans.

A company that’s developing technology to help people with disabilities who rely on electrical assistive devices to communicate with technology. Essentially, the startups is building a sensor that is easily connected to a computer, and when someone presses the button, the computer responds.

A company that is building a tool that helps small businesses in the developing world sell more products by getting them listed on sites like Amazon.

A startup to help businesses work with their insurance providers to ensure their employees are protected.

An “organic social network” for concerts, sports, and events. It’s like Eventbrite for everything.

A tool for helping to identify fraud in credit card transactions, then helping to fight against it.

In a bid to improve the lives of the elderly, Inmar is building a platform for home care services that focuses on four areas:

A company that makes it easy to build out e-commerce sites for mom and pop stores

A “do-it-yourself” set of financial tools for people looking to manage their finances.

A startup that helps companies manage the large amounts of data they’re generating. The startup has a suite of nearly 50 different tools, including a custom data monitoring and management platform, an API, and a mobile app that helps manage data.

A platform to improve the quality of customer service and make your employees happier.

A tool aimed at helping companies and organizations manage the risk of their employee’s misconduct.

A startup that lets companies track their employees’ movements in and out of the office using GPS.

A London-based startup that wants to sell a service that helps auto-rickshaw drivers get paid for their rides.

The startup has a novel approach to tackling the problem of a lack of transparency in the oil industry. It’s a tool that allows users to track the source of their oil, and take it from there.

The startup is building a platform to help people to buy and sell gently used items, like cars, without having to go through a third party like eBay or Craigslist. They have a plan in place to expand into new categories in 2020.

As it stands, nearly every startup has a website or a blog. This tool allows you to create a website or a blog for your company, product or idea. A tool to help you create a website, blog or app.

A tool that helps companies issue and track time off for regular employees

A video doorbell that sends alerts to agents about who is at your door.

A platform for manufacturing and distribution of solar energy products

A platform to save money on airline tickets for frequent travelers. The company’s software automatically determines how much you’d pay each way to get to a particular destination, based on your previous travel history.

A group messaging platform for professionals, which uses a native iOS and Android app and a web site to enable messaging, file sharing, and a unified inbox.

A company that helps prevent fraudulent charges by sending text messages to customers when they’re about to make a payment.

A platform for managing sales of services, products, and content across websites.

An on-demand concierge for other types of professional services, like accounting and business coaching.

A voice-activated, speaker-free assistant for your smart home

The company’s investors include early Facebook investor Peter Thiel (and Peter’s brother, Bobby)

A platform for exchanges of equity on the blockchain. It’s a way for buyers to get stock from sellers without a middleman, and for sellers to get capital from buyers.

A startup that wants to help people plan their retirement. It’s planning to use its data science to offer “a retirement experience like no other”.

A bit like Couchsurfing, but for food.

A visual calendar that lets you view data from your company, including upcoming events, meetings, and tasks, all in a single place. The startup’s app seems like a mashup of Google Calendar and Trello.

A tool for writing and compiling reports for banks, insurers and asset managers.

A company building a social network for influencers.

A new service that offers a way to automate marketing tasks like advertising, email marketing, and follow-up/updates.

A digital concierge that helps individuals connect with and plan services for their pets.

The company behind this tool is working to help small retailers around the world get a unified view of their inventory and shipping.

A platform for office rentals, for companies that are “looking for a temporary space for 6 to 12 months.”

A startup that launched in 2009, The Ophelia Project is the original "crowdfunding for women" platform, meaning it enables female entrepreneurs to raise money from female investors. It has raised $133 million since its inception.

A platform that lets people create free, ad-supported media.

A mobile app that helps users take pictures of their food waste, then turns them into compost.

A cross-border investment platform that connects institutional investors with fund managers through a central service.

A company that works with companies to help them get through the process of acquiring foreign IP.

This company has developed a way to help consumers buy and trade in used cars.

A startup that brings a book to life by adding illustrations and audio.

A startup for HR managers to create 'recruiter profiles' for key employees. The startup repurposes existing social media profiles for the purpose.

A startup that lets people experience virtual reality through the power of their mobile phone.

A tool to enable employers to create and manage their podcasts. The company is taking a very dry subject and making it fun, like “How to be a great manager”

This startup is looking to help companies in the B2B space generate leads by using machine learning to predict where they’ll make the best profit.

This startup helps companies get customer support from their existing customers. The company uses their own chatbot to answer customer support questions.

A mobile payments product that allows shoppers to pay for items on any device that supports NFC. The startup is building a payment platform for apps and retailers, as well as a recharge service.

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

A startup that sells a subscription service to teach people how to use their smartphones

This startup works with agencies to help them find workers, and then helps them manage that workforce. The startup has already worked with The Onion, the New Yorker, and others.

A new kind of grocery store that takes advantage of the fact that many people can’t shop alone. The concept is that it’s one person browsing the store while the other is cooking.

idea: The company is an NYC based company trying to help people get involved in the fashion industry.

A startup that helps people to find a doctor that specializes in their condition (based on their symptoms)

A platform for data science and machine learning that’s meant to be accessible for non-technical users.

A platform that connects employers and employees, allowing employers to post and manage jobs, and employees to apply.

A tool to help marketers build email lists with the click of a button.

A startup that partners with Indian restaurants to automate their ordering processes. This can help restaurants better manage inventory and deliveries, save money, and increase customer satisfaction.

This is a platform that helps companies create digital storybooks for their brand as a way to digitally age product.

A number of the ideas, including Piggybank and Fetch, have been rejected by Y Combinator.

A startup that will let you see real-time data on the weather for the day in your city, in order to get ready faster.

This startup wants to build a new type of credit card for the underbanked, especially in developing countries. It takes the form of a prepaid card and is available in any currency. Given the lack of banking options in many such countries, the startup sees a lot of potential for growth.

An API platform that helps developers build automated call centers, with the intention of bringing a machine-to-machine interaction system to businesses.

A company that allows people to rent out their homes, providing revenue to homeowners and also serving as a revenue stream for Airbnb-like hosts.

An API for buying and selling cars, with over a million cars already sold.

A financial-tech startup that is trying to provide small business owners and independent contractors with better ways to manage and pay their bills.

As one of the first enterprise-focused venture-backed startups, Placed is building a platform that allows employers to create a database of their employees and their location, as well as see which of their employees they can “Placed” in the time they need to pay them.

A German startup building autonomous cars that are cheaper and more energy efficient than competitors.

A little like Twilio and Stripe, this API makes it easier to build new kinds of voice-controlled software.

A company that helps you create a credit score in a few minutes.

A dashboard that helps companies monitor which customers have opened an account, and which they have actually paid.

A platform for discovering, sharing, and buying private aircraft. It’s aimed at aircraft owners, rather than individuals looking to purchase private planes.

Amply is looking to help customers streamline the paper-heavy process of hiring contractors. The company is building an “automated, algorithmic method” for matching contractors with customers.

Time has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch, including five from the summer batch and seven from the winter batch.

Builds a retail website for selling products via Instagram. The startup’s founder says that the website is “the world’s first” to use the social platform to sell physical products online.

• "India's 10 Most Promising Startups" (India edition), Rediff, January 20, 2014

This startup helps credit unions find and offer loan products for low-income borrowers.

A startup that builds tools for developers to push their apps to the Apple App Store

This is a messaging app for nonprofit organizations. The goal is to make it easier for groups to send information and announcements, but also to build a social network for the groups.

A platform for managing medical records, bills, and diagnostics. A SaaS platform designed for medical providers.

A startup that offers a service for people who are working remotely to advise companies on how to adapt to remote workers This is a large market on its own

Idea: A new way to look at micro-investing

A startup that makes it easy for restaurants to serve their customers on their smartphones, without having to pay for a server to do it.

A new iOS app for tickets that lets

A company that helps mobile developers integrate with Apple’s SpriteKit framework and with Xamarin

A startup that helps users remember and visualize things like their childhood, their favorite foods, and the time of day. The app is like a visual scrapbook and helps users keep track of important memories and events.

This startup is building a solution for companies that handle big data to build their own analytics applications on top of Hadoop.

A startup that wants to make it easier for new startups to get funded by providing an online platform for finding investors.

A platform that helps lower the barrier for students and schools to create and share their own content.

A simple way to put email and messaging in one inbox, and a way to make calls from one platform. Each app is meant to be used alongside the other, and can be combined with other services like Slack and Google Voice.

This startup is building a digital tool that helps companies help people with disabilities. Assistly is a web-based platform that helps companies help people with disabilities. Assistly is focused on helping consumers with a disability buy products and services online.

An iOS video editing app that lets users add GIFs, music and other visuals to their videos.

A device that can measure how much a plant needs to water its roots and send that data to a mobile app.

A platform that lets you select a task, and then automatically bids on it.

A healthcare startup is looking to use games to help doctors train for their exams and tests.

A product that allows users to take a photo of a product and upload it to a database of other photos, which other users can then rate on a scale of 1-5.

A startup that wants to use IoT to help farmers avoid pesticides and decrease their input costs.

A food delivery service for people with a limited income who can’t afford to leave the house

A startup that helps businesses automate the process of reaching out to customers and prospects. Instead of using a “cold call”, which is risky and has a 50% failure rate, companies use a “warm call” that is more successful and costs less.

A startup that helps you discover and book concerts, local events and activities, and more, without incurring charges.

A startup for people to ask questions, share their own experiences, and find answers from a community of medical professionals.

a video editing app that can do real-time editing

A tool that makes it easy to work with photos taken with a smartphone

Idea: A simple, powerful, and intuitive tool for creating smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain

A startup that connects companies with people who want to enter the service industry. The startup says they have $1 million in monthly revenue and have hired several staff since YC.

A platform that allows groups to set up private social media accounts and run them as a group. The teams you’re a part of can choose their own rules and restrictions, so it’s a sort of Slack with a self-controlled community.

A digital wallet for people who need to make international transfers. The startup, which has raised $7.5 million to date, says that customers can now use their accounts to transfer funds to other countries while paying lower fees.

A way to drive down the cost of hiring legal help for small businesses.

A tool for tracking and managing moves and moves to happen in the future

A tool for creating personalized videos for social media. The startup says they have 20 employees and are profitable and growing in the US, with a 10% conversion rate.

This is a service that allows a team of freelancers to work on a single project, with the help of a project manager. The platform lets you specify your project needs and get them done.

A startup that wants to help companies be more resilient to data breaches. It will offer security services that are custom-tailored to the company.

A way to let people buy gifts for each other with their phones. The startup is building an app that allows you to scan barcodes of items on the internet, then share them with friends to purchase for them with a few taps.

A company that advances the careers of aspiring opera singers, giving them a place to record, rehearse, and perform their music.

A tool for schools that helps teachers plan and manage their school’s communication. The company says it’s already used by over 1,000 schools and is growing fast.

This is an app for gamblers to record their bets, and a way to track how often they win or lose.

A company that connects large retailers with local farmers, allowing them to buy produce directly from them and have it delivered to their store locally.

A startup that allows people to rent their homes to Airbnb hosts on a per-night basis, charging a fee to those hosts.

A company that aims to help companies determine which labor-saving devices are actually more efficient and cost-effective for their operations.

A real-time news app that helps users stay informed about the latest news and events related to their favorite sports teams.

A B2B provider of enterprise software

A marketing platform for the legal industry that wants to use AI to automate many of the low-value tasks associated with the industry such as correspondence management.

Equinor has created a third-party API (application programming interface) that allows online retailers to accept and follow up on online orders from consumers. This can help online retailers get their products to customers faster than if they were shipping in-store.

Not just a one-click solution for saving and transferring contacts, but a true platform for managing them. It allows users to create branded groups of contacts, and then schedule calls among them. It’s ad-free, secure and can be used on both iOS and Android.

A community of and for people who don’t like to login to the internet. A social networking site for users who are interested in meeting up offline.

This is a service that helps businesses manage their employees’ time and attendance, helping them cut down on administrative costs and employee theft.

A software development company that wants to build tools that help startups avoid the pitfalls of hiring new employees.

A startup building a software tool that optimizes all of a business’s marketing programs.

An AI-powered platform for visualizing data that allows users to visualize and interact with data using simple drag-and-drop.

A “social” or “dynamic” sales and marketing platform for small business owners. The startup offers an online platform for users to create customized sales and marketing campaigns. The platform then connects them with their target audience, encouraging the user to talk about their products and services, which the startup claims is more effective than most traditional marketing platforms.

A platform for publicisng events, aimed at booking them at the lowest possible price.

A startup that allows you to easily find other people who use Fitbit.

A platform for the “hiring and onboarding of remote workers”.

A “one-stop-shop” for sales and invoicing across multiple industries. The company is building an app to help users of different companies bring in sales and invoicing data, then bring it all together into a single product.

A bot that can automate the process of selling products on Craigslist, on Craigslist, and on other sites where it can be sold. The product is geared towards online retailers.

A tool for job seekers, acting as a job board for all the jobs in one place, allows employers to post and manage the application process, and see who the top candidates are for the position.

A company that allows users to manage their finances from a single interface, by securely storing all of their bank, credit card, and loan accounts.

Idea: A startup that’s building a tool that lets you share your high school student’s grades and progress with colleges

A startup that offers one of the few ways to sell tickets to online conferences, and tickets to events in the past year, with a 2.8% take rate.

A business where “you can buy, compose and sell songs with a single click”

A program that helps small businesses get funding from angel investors, working on a subscription model that allows users to pay a monthly fee for access to the service.

A company that’s looking to disrupt the insurance market by providing a platform for users to buy and sell insurance plans across the web, essentially creating the world’s largest market for insurance on the internet.

This startup helps businesses sell their spare computer parts to repair shops for cash.

A company that helps college students apply for jobs and internships. The startup is backed by Y Combinator.

A startup that’s building a mobile app that makes it easier for people to take photos of their pets for pet insurance.

A company that collects data from credit cards to build a predictive model of which cardholders are likely to pay back their debts (and which ones are likely to default). It’s looking to offer a free model to banks for their riskiest customers.

Company is building a platform to help people find and get along with friends, and help people find people with similar interests.

Helping people give and receive feedback about their brands, the startup uses a combination of surveys, text, and video to manage brand perceptions.

A way for teams to organize and share knowledge.

A text-based chat app that uses machine learning to track the progress of a conversation and know when to stop a conversation or switch between friends.

A company that makes it easy for companies to give employees stock options and stock grants, and for employees to automatically convert those options into money.

A company that develops technology for private jets and helicopters.

A tool for creating and sharing custom image files for social media. The startup is looking to make it easier than ever for brands to create and share the right promotional images.

This company is building a system to streamline the day-to-day operations of small businesses.

A platform that allows Mexico-based companies to sell products and services to the US.

A platform for home cleaning services that intelligently schedules around the user’s schedule and behavior. The startup wants to make the service “seamlessly integrated” into your home and your life.

After launching in 2014, the startup’s goal has been to help women get a leg up in the world of tech in the US. They’ve built a product and retained an early audience of 20,000 women.

A game that helps kids learn English. The startup is promoting English learning by playing games with kids, but the game is not a game in the traditional sense. The startup is building a game that uses a gamified approach to help users learn English.

A digital banking app for the unbanked in Latin America. The startup is building the “first true digital bank for the unbanked”, working on integrations with traditional credit unions and banks.

A startup for hotels to receive guest reviews. It allows hotels to easily build a phone application that allows guests to submit feedback. It’s also a way for hotels to tap into a big, untapped market of millennials who like to review things on their phones.

A startup building an “Uber for food” app that lets you order delivery from popular restaurants that are rated online by others.

A company that helps employers navigate labor laws and regulations in a more effective manner, by providing a platform for real-time labor guidance.

A platform for automating the creation of creative briefs and campaigns.

A tool for scheduling and estimating repairs. It currently has over 2,000 customers in the UK.

The company’s product is the same thing as the company itself — a platform for "instant" test-driven development. They’ve raised $25 million in funding to date.

A startup that wants to give people the same ability to browse and shop for food that they have in the US. It’s designed specifically for Indian consumers who don’t have a bank account.

A startup that connects a team of freelance designers, developers and designers with a small business needing help on a project.

A tool that makes it easy for businesses to manage customer on-boarding and user experience. The product has been used by more than 300 companies, including Mozilla, Airbnb, and Groupon.

A tool that enables you to create custom groups of contacts on your smartphone and send targeted messages to them.

A startup that builds software for managing technology and data for colleges. The company claims to have over $6 million in monthly recurring revenue, and counts Dow Jones as one of its customers.

A machine learning platform that uses machine learning to predict which products will sell well.

A company building a digital video recorder, with a focus on the non-professional market.

A tool that helps companies in France, Germany, and Belgium connect to Chinese suppliers.

A desktop app for managing files. If you’ve ever tried to find a file on your Mac, you’ll probably agree that it’s a pain.

A team health and fitness app with a day-by-day view of your schedule, tracking your reps, sets, rest and rest-pause sessions. The app also creates a social network around your workouts, creating a community around shared fitness goals.

A startup for people who want to donate their old home appliances, furniture, and other items for reuse. The startup says that in the US alone, more than 10 million items go unused in storage every year.

A “destination marketplace” that helps consumers find and book experiences, like spa treatments and wine tours.

A web application that allows users to create and manage their own online communities, and manage their content in a professional and organized manner.

A platform for checking the health of a person’s gut and soon their overall health.

A set of tools for small- and medium-sized businesses to manage their credit and invoice processes.

A machine learning company that is working on sophisticated facial recognition software for use in retail.

A startup that provides a service to help people in their 60s and over find quality, affordable day care for their grandchildren

A community for people who care about the environment

A tool to help intrapreneurs intall and manage their enterprise-wide deployments of serverless apps built on AWS Lambda. The startup wants to help users track and manage deployments.

A startup that aims to “assist with the transition of assets from one generation to the next”.

A startup for small businesses to sell their products and services online, as well as a B2B marketplace to connect those businesses with other vendors and their customers.

A startup that helps you visualize your credit score and quickly access information on your credit report and credit score.

A platform for machine learning tasks, including image recognition and deep learning. The company has $3.6M in funding and seven employees.

A “community for digital nomads”, focused on sharing experiences and connecting with other digital nomads.

A digital storage service for webpages and other user-generated content.

Cozy is a place for entrepreneurs to meet one another.

A company building an AI-based platform for trading crypto.

Helps small business owners find the right talent, like accountants, lawyers and consultants. Things like word-of-mouth, LinkedIn, past client referrals and referrals from the company’s own customers are used to get business owners to the right talent.

A WordPress-based blogging platform that removes the clutter of a blog, allowing you to focus on what you’re saying, not all the add-ons you’re using.

A platform for companies to integrate their CRM and HR systems into one, with the goal of saving both time and money for the company.

A mobile app that gives users the ability to pay for parking in advance.

A new platform for the next generation of musicians. Musikexplorer has a music school format, where the students get a chance to learn music and play in a band.

A platform for home services, including house cleaning, painting, and lawn and garden care. The company is using a referral model to build a network of home service providers and is currently operating in the UK and Singapore.

A startup that helps people coordinate “Last-Mile” carpooling from point A to point B.

Ecommerce for the sharing economy, with an internal marketplace for tasks like dog walking and house cleaning, and an external marketplace for things like carpooling or Lyft, Uber or Lyft integration.

A mobile game where you get to travel to different books, like Harry Potter, and be in the scenes like you would in a scene in the book.

A tool that helps small businesses reduce the time and cost of hiring a lawyer to find and reference legal documents.

The startup is building a platform to allow small business owners to keep track of their inventory, and make it available to their customers via online ordering. It’s currently testing a free app for iOS and Android.

This startup is building a platform to help people build and grow their brands. The startup is building out a tool to help people find the best new talent to hire.

A startup that leverages machine learning to help people who have anxiety and depression more easily know how to cope with their condition. It’s meant to be a self-help tool.

An API that allows developers to access the web’s largest database of online reviews across thousands of sites.

The startup is building its own 2-way messaging service for local groups in the U.S., which it says will help groups organize their events and events organizers get in touch with people.

This is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide insights about people’s emotional states and wants to use the data it gathers to develop emotional intelligence-based services.

A startup that offers subscriptions to on-demand tasks, like cleaning, lawn mowing and house cleaning. The startup is the first to use an AI and deep learning to get accurate pricing for each task.

A platform for managing and sharing programs that helps companies and nonprofits with their marketing materials.

A platform for new-hire onboarding that uses an “heuristic-based” system to determine the employee’s job fit. Previously, most company HR has been based on a 90-10 fit scale with 10 being the best fit, but the company claims it can do better.

A platform for medical data sharing, from scans to lab results to genetic sequencing.

A platform that lets people input their achievements and challenges in life to see how they compare to others.

A tool for mobile distribution of content, such as video or photos, to other platforms.

Small businesses are often stuck with bad contracts from their credit card processors. This startup helps them negotiate better terms and lower rates.

This startup will use a camera-phone to help customers accurately measure walls, ceilings, and space.

Ideas are usually posted on the full-day application days. Each startup is given one minute to pitch their ideas. The startups are then given a chance to pitch their ideas to the judges, who will then select the top-5 ideas to move on to the next round.

A startup that helps manage your personal and professional life by managing your schedule, email inbox, calendar, contacts and workplace.

A recurring revenue business that helps beauty professionals track and manage their clients, allowing them to earn more money.

Idea: A cybersecurity startup that’s building a tool for identifying and removing rogue access points to corporate networks.

A small startup that’s trying to make everyone’s meal a little bit healthier.

Tired of setting up a ton of services on your new Mac ScreenGuru is a startup that enables Mac users to have a single login for all their apps, which aren’t designed to be set up separately. It’s a new way to think about how you use a Mac.

An “in-house talent management system” for small and medium-sized companies.

A startup that provides a payment service that allows customers to pay vendors and employees with a phone call. Will launch in NY, NY in October.

A tool for letting people track the amount of time it takes for their ideas to be converted into action. It’s an interesting concept for a startup, but has already run into problems with privacy.

This startup wants to be the “Uber of co-working spaces”, using a model that blends coworking spaces with traditional offices. The company offers a furniture-less workspace with a dedicated desk and lockable storage, designed to help companies get the most value out of their new space.

Catchy U is a chatbot platform that sits in the top of your browser, and allows you to interact with the things you care about most.

A startup that makes it easy for retailers to accept payments from third-party app integrations, with plans to expand internationally.

Believes it can create an “augmented reality” solution for doctors. The company is planning to use its own camera-based technology to help doctors use special goggles to see what’s happening in a patient’s body in real time.

A startup that helps companies manage the logistics of stuff -- like shipping, storing and moving -- more efficiently.

A social media platform that allows people to create and share short videos, meant to be used on a variety of social media platforms. The app attempts to make the experience of sharing a video feel more like “posting a photo” on your social media networks.

A startup working to make it possible for everyone to consume a beef jerky product from the comfort of their own home.

A startup that creates fancy 3D models of houses from photographs and 3D scans of real houses. The company is using the data to help homebuyers visualize their new homes.

An online retailer of jeans for men, women and kids. Founded in 2015

A shared-carshare service for businesses. Coworkers sign up as users, put in their credit card info, and have access to a car. The company wants to allow businesses to give employees the ability to rent a car at a discounted price.

This startup wants to create an “Uber for trash” for apartment owners, creating an automated system of trash drops and pickups that uses GPS and back-end software to track it all.

A $15,000 tool to help people purchase and sell their cars, alongside their current vehicles, and get the most money for both. The founders of this startup say that people are willing to spend up to $80,000 to get a new car, but are not willing to spend the same amount on their current ones.

Using AI to help brands reach their customers with the most relevant ad campaigns. The startup offers a “personalized” message algorithm that’s meant to deliver ads that are more likely to be clicked.

A tool for hiring consultants, with the goal of reducing costs by 30% and cutting the number of steps it takes to get a consultant hired.

In addition to the main list above, a number of companies that were not selected for the finals were chosen for a special list of honorable mentions in three categories: Technology, People and Process. The Bottom Line is the only company that was not chosen for the finals from this list.

A tool for automating email marketing for businesses. Its founders, having previously built a small email marketing SaaS for startups, were looking for a way to automate the process.

A social network for moviegoers. They want to bring together Instagram-like photos of movies, and use the same data to highlight attractions in a new way.

E-commerce startup that allows shoppers to buy groceries and other products directly from brands and merchants.

The app lets users choose what they want to see, and filters out content they don’t want to see.

A startup that offers companies and employees a remote access to their company’s data from any device, as long as it's connected to the internet.

A startup that wants to make it easy for every person to have a personal assistant.

A maker of solar-powered vehicles

This startup combines a food delivery service with a meal planning platform

A platform that connects a marketer’s email list with their website’s email opt-in form, allowing users to automatically sign up for emails when they arrive on the website.

A digital marketing platform for lifestyle brands, creating an app for brands to manage and grow their digital presence.

A social network for people who want to buy and sell real estate. It’s currently focused on the San Francisco Bay Area, and is intended to compete with Zillow and Trulia.

This is a platform for coaching HR teams.

App that helps teachers find and collaborate on common content. The company’s technology works with Google Docs to organize a shared content space and show when content has changed. The product serves over 2,000 schools.

A P2P tool that connects patients with specialists to find the right doctor.

A B2B platform that allows companies to manage and share all of their customer transactions and transactions between their employees.

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

A way for marketers to track their Facebook ad campaigns in real-time, with a dashboard to see which ads are performing the best.

A startup that builds "the world’s first decentralized, open source, student portal.” Its goal is to connect students around the world to their professors through a global network of university digital classrooms.

This startup is building a tool for managing portfolios of businesses. The idea is to make portfolio management more accessible for people without a huge financial team.

A tool that helps you re-use code across your web, mobile, and desktop applications, by allowing you to link your code to an API. The startup’s co-founder says that after launching in April 2019, they’ve already signed up 600 customers.

A program to help refugees and asylum seekers in Canada find employment.

An on-demand, on-demand marketplace that allows people to buy and rent things they don’t have time to get. They have a car sharing service in the works, and they’re trying to build a platform that connects renters with contractors and service providers.

A tool that helps users create videos without a smartphone, using a $1 webcam and computer

A tool that helps companies with the creation of new sign-up forms.

Helping consumers to find the best mobile carrier for their needs, and help carriers mitigate churn.

A startup looking to build a custom hardware-based software platform for the hotel industry.

This startup is working on an "in-app workout studio" for fitness apps. The startup wants to deliver on-the-go workouts to help people stay fit.

A social network that uses AI to surface the most relevant content around you

Other notable startups in the city include:

A cloud-based service that provides default financial advice for customers, with an emphasis on helping them manage their money

Maintains and manages a database of resumes and job candidates, and helps employers find and hire for their organization

A startup that allows companies to more easily integrate their insurance plans with their payroll systems by specialising as a provider of payroll and benefits administration as well as insurance.

A cloud-based platform that helps restaurants track food safety and food prep operations.

This startup is building a platform for social selling. The beta is being rolled out on Twitter and Instagram and it plans to build a full-fledged product in the future.

A platform for creative entrepreneurs to connect over Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

A startup that helps users organize their calendars, including reminding them about things, creating to-do lists, and setting up events

A startup that sells products in India

A line of clothing that utilizes technology to help make wicking sweat a thing of the past.

This company wants to replace the often-painful experience of filling out a tax return with a more automated process. The startup is working on a software program that will work with H&R Block’s online software to take the pain out of filing a tax return and streamline the process. The company says it has $1.5 million in monthly revenue.

A platform to help companies manage their travel expenses and travel agents by matching travelers with nearby hotels

A business that helps to hire, manage and pay designers who are looking to leave their job

A platform that helps small business owners sell their products wholesale to retailers such as Amazon, Target, and Walmart.

A project management and time-tracking service that smartly integrates with Google Apps

Free daily newsletters with actionable information to help users live better and be healthier.

a startup that uses robots to cut and assemble plastics and other materials

A digital currency for small businesses, meant to provide a better shopping experience to users.

A startup that specializes in data mining, targeting the B2B space. The company aims to help companies reduce time spent on data analysis and create models that can predict the lifespan of their assets.

A shared vehicle rental service where drivers can split the cost of a ride.

A company that hopes to make it easier for people to buy shares in their favorite startups. Endocra is building a platform that offers a way for investors to purchase shares in startups with a few clicks.

A credit platform for small businesses in the U.S., with plans to add a debit card option in the future.

An online platform that helps people find and connect with others with similar interests (i.e. a Google search for people who like to ride bikes in San Francisco).

A startup that provides a visual dashboard of project health and progress. The startup uses AI to crowdsource 3,000 hours of data from 50,000 employees and then provides a visualization of the health of your project.

An API for creating 100% green power systems.

A “content marketing agency for small businesses.”

A tool that helps businesses and governments keep track of their data in real time.

A tool to help people who want to start their own business grow their product.

An API for building virtual reality apps, as well as a VR headset, as a way to create a new type of “VR search engine”.

A cloud-based version of Microsoft Word that lets people create and edit documents from their phones.

A place for all the comedians and comedy fans to come together and talk about comedy.

A startup with a vision to change the way people travel by building beautiful and seamless travel experiences.

Startups with a “retail-first” mindset, focused on selling a product through a web-based storefront, rather than in a physical store. They tend to be larger, with 4–7 employees.

A startup that lets you order prescription drugs online and have them delivered to your door

A business analytics software company that wants to help companies make better decisions and build better products.

A startup that helps businesses have a better time making phone calls with their customers. Calling by Landline is a suite of tools for salespeople, agencies, and businesses that helps them capture data and turn it into contextually relevant messages.

In 2017, the U.S. Postal Service lost $65 billion, according to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General. The USPS lost $1.8 billion in FY 2016, and $2.8 billion in FY 2015. That is a drop of $3.4 billion from the $1.9 billion that they lost in FY 2014.

A consumer analytics product that allows companies to see real-time consumer data trends.

A platform that helps clients manage their credit scores, run credit analyses, and find credit cards and loans.

A platform for those seeking to save money on gas and travel expenses.

An online platform where customers can find and book luxury travel.

A platform to help people find the best care for the elderly, with a focus on home healthcare.

A “new kind of community management” for restaurants.

The startup is building a tool for finding investors for startups.

This startup is building a chatbot that learns from your habits to give you better recommendations for what to watch based on your interests.

A startup that is creating a platform for businesses to match employees with appropriate internships.

A B2B company that helps “identify the root cause of Web performance issues by providing insights into how users interact with a website”.

A mobile app that helps hoteliers list their rooms directly on Airbnb.com without the need to host their own website.

A cloud-based platform for home-surveillance systems built on personal computers.

This company is looking to take the “labor of love” out of home ownership, offering a simple way to save money and time on renovations by having the homeowner hire out the work.

A startup that helps teams design and build apps to bring a business idea to life.

A “one-stop shop for credit” that aims to help people from underbanked backgrounds to get access to credit. The startup is currently in talks with banks and credit unions to work out a partnership.

A startup that enables small business owners to develop and publish their apps.

A Dallas-based startup making it easy for users to automate the creation of a sales pipeline.

This startup aims to create a “single-page checkout” experience for retailers to improve the checkout process.

A tool that helps businesses manage their online reputation. The company has over 30,000 customers.

A video platform for shopping, shopping for video, and more video, including beauty and fashion content.

A messaging system for restaurants that allows hosts to manage reservations, ticket sales, and reservations.

A company that builds a virtual assistant for call center agents, to help them deal with the high volume of calls they deal with.

A small startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide over-the-phone sales and customer support. The app connects to the companies’ CRM and provides live agent support in a chat interface.

“A digital bank account that’s 100% open-source.”

In 2016, the company was featured in a Wired article titled "The $10 Million Game That Can Change Your Life," and has been covered in articles in Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, and The Economist.

A startup that aims to bring a free, ad-free alternative to the world’s most popular lifestyle app, Tinder.

A startup that is building a service that lets organizations connect to highly-skilled drone pilots.

A company that builds 3D-printed prosthetic hands and other medical devices that can be 3D-printed at home, with a focus on helping veterans.

"The Future of Space" is a VR experience that encourages people to become astronauts.

Empowering developers to build custom mobile apps. The company wants to make mobile apps simple, like the mobile websites that everyone else is building.

A startup that sells an “HDMI board” that sits on top of a television (or other display) and allows you to plug in a USB drive and use it to show content from a computer.

A startup that’s developing a computer vision API that helps businesses analyze and refine their photos.

A data conversion app that brings the search experience of Google to Facebook (similar to how Twitter brought the search experience to Facebook.)

A platform that lets families, friends, and neighbors connect, find, and support each other for their mental health issues, using a big data approach to help the right people at the right time. Through its platform, Bensound plans to provide a virtual space where people can post their symptoms, get support, and connect with each other. The platform reaps the insights provided by the data from all the posts to offer people with mental health issues the most personalized, accurate diagnosis possible.

A startup that connects restaurants with home delivery services, so that customers can order food that’s ready when they get it. The startup has already raised $2.4 million in funding.

A tool for financial professionals, or portfolio managers, to create and manage investment portfolios. The startup offers a web-based, drag and drop interface to create portfolios.

The startup is looking to digitize the process of back-office data entry. Based in San Francisco, the startup is currently focused on the insurance industry, though it's looking to expand into the retail and hospitality markets.

Ruled is a service to help US companies ask for and file trademarks in foreign countries. The startup currently has customers in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the UK.

A group of friends who are building a kind of alternative to LinkedIn, with more emphasis on connections and less emphasis on the algorithm.

Sempi is “a company that helps people manage and organize their debt.”

A fitness tracking app that makes it easy to track and log your fitness goals.

Media startups are often built on the back of a single product, such as Skype or YouTube. The company’s founders say its technology can help companies figure out whether a new product is worth the investment.

This company wants to use visual AI to help retail and restaurant managers visualize operations, from seasonal patterns to labor costs, and make informed decisions.

A software platform that helps employers handle the administrative tasks that come with hiring.

A company that makes smart locks for high-end residential housing, so that you can unlock your front door with your phone, for instance.

MakeMaps helps users create maps from scratch, or edit existing maps. It uses low-cost aerial mapping technology to create maps that are useful for a range of products.

A platform for managing customer service and sales in a single platform, with built-in tools to manage customer data.

A chatbot platform that allows users to schedule regular conversations with virtual therapists who provide advice, feedback, and advice.

A venture fund and incubator for startups working with AI.

This startup is building a way to help farmers market their products without the hassle of selling via a big, impersonal store. Instead, farmers can have a more intimate and less expensive selling experience when selling directly to the consumer.

A startup that allows users to chat with a local concierge to get a ride, shuttle, or service request.

Track is building a new way to track our expenses and savings, offering recaps of how we spent our money and automated suggestions on how to cut back.

A turnkey set of products and services for product managers including management of leads, sales, and marketing.

A startup that helps students find and apply for scholarships, their funding, and the information they need to apply.

This business is building a system that allows buyers to choose and track the most reputable and reliable retailers, and helps them avoid fraudulent sellers.

An enterprise-focused CRM for sales leads.

A platform that provides an online platform for influencers to build audiences and earn revenue from their work.

We’re sitting on a huge data-set

An AI that predicts stock performance based on the news it hears.

A startup that wants to build an app that helps you save money on your insurance and financing. Customers would be able to compare cars, get quotes and pay for car insurance all in one platform.

A tool for building lightweight IoT devices that communicate securely with the internet via IFTTT.

A startup that helps businesses manage their membership programs. The startup is currently focusing on the restaurant industry.

A platform that allows kiosk users to pay for parking remotely with their credit card, and be refunded the money in their account immediately.

A retail analytics tool for e-commerce. The startup wants to help retailers better forecast demand and optimize their inventories.

An AI bot for doctors, to help them diagnose patients and see more patients.

A B2B company that helps companies take credit card payments from anywhere, from anywhere.

This startup’s tagline is “the first real-time CRM.” It works similarly to any other CRM, but with one key difference: it’s real-time and works a lot like a chat. It’s also very simple.

A platform that enables local retailers to accept payments from shoppers using mobile phones.

A platform that connects contractors with clients as a way to bring more of the work to the people who do the work. They’re a Y Combinator alum.

A new way for homeowners to sell their homes, with no agent fees and no commissions.

A platform to help people with a wealth of relationships manage and close deals.

A business that connects people with local caretakers and property managers

A company that helps investors and real estate agents track investment performance.

A startup that helps people in developing countries get micro-loans

A tool that helps you manage your courses and courses of study, along with the borrowing and loan information for each. It’s currently available on the web, but will be coming to iOS and Android.

A company that manages your rent and allows you to pay it with a credit card. The company says they’ve had over $500,000 in monthly revenue, and they’ve also had clients like the Delaware Public School System.

A project-based funding program that lets companies quickly raise money when they need it.

A startup that builds a tool that allows parents to create a family budget and split expenses.

A company that makes payments more efficient, with a system that allows businesses to send out monthly invoices, and avoid the hassle of managing their own payment systems.

This company wants to build a universal language of facial expressions that can be used in any social context

A company that wants to solve a problem for small businesses: they’re struggling to get their customers to pay. Shopin makes it easier to create a loyalty scheme for their customers by helping them create a personal account and tie it to their business account. Shopin also has a small business version that can help businesses combine rewards programs from multiple platforms into one.

We’re taught that the key to social science is “social observation”.

With the ability to take stock of all the different tools and platforms that a team uses, it’s difficult to create a shared vision. Bopp is a platform that helps companies set up a shared vision around their tools.

Idea: A startup that is building an end-to-end solution for businesses making hardware to help them get funded and bring their product to market. They want to automate a lot of the backend work needed to launch hardware like creating a company and getting funding.

A startup that is building a new type of credit card for low-income people by partnering with an NGO in Brazil to give these people access to credit for groceries, utilities, and gas.

A startup that provides a service for people to learn how to mediate in divorce cases

A way to help people share and sell their assets, from furniture to cars, with a dedicated app.

A small-business lender that offers flexible loans, designed for individuals with $20,000 to $150,000 in assets.

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to more than 200 companies that have received a total of more than $80 billion in venture capital funding as of Q3 2017.

A startup that helps people find apartments to rent. They are using machine learning to scan Craigslist ads, notify people that there are apartments available, and suggest the best rent/price range.

A startup that works in the messaging space, providing an open API that allows users to send and receive messages via Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Slack.

This app is a replacement for spreadsheets. The app helps users manage every aspect of their finances, including contracts, invoices, and approvals. The startup offers a monthly subscription fee for the software and gives users a free trial period.

A tool that helps users monetize digital content, like photos or videos from your phone.

A platform for people to connect, share and discover the hidden world of hiking, backpacking, and camping.

A startup that wants to make it much easier for users to manage their credit cards. Instead of users having to go to multiple sites to manage their identity, they can get all of their information in one place.

A startup that wants to help you manage your money by automating your investing and investing in index funds.

The company is building an AI-powered platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically identify and recommend products to customers.

A self-driving car startup that is building an “airport-as-application” for managing travel.

A blockchain startup that is building a platform to link driverless cars and their data, with a focus on ride-sharing.

A startup that improves the user experience on Twitter by adding a “feed” feature.

A platform that helps organizations to lower their energy costs, while also lowering their carbon footprint.

A blockchain-based real estate rental platform.

A CPA firm that helps small businesses with accounting, bookkeeping, and tax services. The startup is in the process of launching an iOS app for managing employees.

A startup that allows people to build their own virtual reality spaces, with custom lighting, sounds, and music.

A startup that helps companies quickly and easily find and hire interns and low-cost labor for tasks like data entry, social media work, and other office tasks.

A software platform to help brands sell directly to consumers, using various channels including email, text, or social.

A company that makes a “super-good” video conferencing platform.

A platform for video game moderators who want to circumvent the need for developers to monitor the forums of their game.

A business that helps companies sell and buy tickets to events.

The app helps put together a picture of your life, from your health to your home, and lets you share it with family and friends.

A tech company that helps help customers who want to buy their own insurance. If a customer wants to buy insurance, they can use the app to get quotes from all the different providers, and then choose the best one. The app is free, and the company will charge a percentage of the premium, typically 35%.

A medical startup that wants to build a network of mini-clinics and doctors in low income countries, where there are very few doctors and no pharmacies.

A platform for investors to buy individual stocks across a variety of exchanges simultaneously.

A secure and private way to store and process documents, like contracts and contracts that have been signed

A platform for office rentals, for companies that are “looking for a temporary space for 6 to 12 months.”

A startup that’s building an app to allow people to buy and sell products from one another who are local to each other, with the goal of making local commerce easier.

A “hybrid” of Google Docs, Slack, and Dropbox. It’s a platform for teamwork and communication that’s meant to be secure and easy to use. Available on iOS and Android.

A startup that helps people who want to start a restaurant in a different country get their business off the ground.

A startup that allows people to have a live video platform for their devices, including a small screen app.

In the 2017 Philadelphia Startup Week, 10 companies were featured.

A web-based platform for real estate agents. The company wants to help agents outsource their listings and find the right client to buy or rent their property.

A digital distribution outlet for products like electronics and games. The company wants to solve the problem of everyone having their own individual accounts and payment methods, with a shared account and single payment method.

A company that helps companies book tours and events at museums and galleries. The startup’s founders previously worked at the Louvre, and want to help them grow their business in the UK, US, and Canada.

The startup is building a new standard for what an API is. The company gathers data from over 20 APIs, then organizes it into a single, self-contained API.

The founders walked away from their jobs in the technology industry to focus on food, and built a tech app that makes it easier and cheaper for restaurants to source from local farmers.

A high-tech startup that wants to use its virtual reality to help people turn their natural surroundings into their classroom.

This is an on-demand toilet rental service that aims to give people easier access to the restroom when they’re out and about.

A tool for connecting users with health insurance companies to get them the best rate and also transfer care to a clinic when needed.

A Spanish startup that wants to help people build better, more productive websites. It has developed a product that helps users rank their website in specific search engines, so they can get more traffic.

A free and open-source tool to help marketers create the same kind of email campaigns that we can create in AdWords, but with less of a hassle and less cost.

This company is building a tool to navigate the growing field of insurance compliance, making compliance easier for insurance agents and their clients.

A credit scoring startup that uses data from credit card and bank purchases to provide a customer’s credit score.

A platform that allows people to purchase and sell real estate together in a safe, transparent way.

A digital platform that uses technology and data to help students study better, helping them make better decisions about what to study and when to study.

A video platform that helps small businesses create slick video content without hiring a video specialist.

A startup that “connects healthcare providers with patients with different needs,” according to the founders.

A music subscription service that pays artists based on how much music people listen to. The company is already in talks with artists to create original content and bring it to their platform.

A startup that sells physical books and online courses to help people with public speaking

A B2B platform for digital marketing, allowing businesses to hire a team of experts to create digital ads, newsletters, and more.

SaaS company that helps businesses with compliance and regulatory headaches like tax reporting, sales tax, employee onboarding, and more

A P2P online marketplace that connects businesses and customers, enabling the former to accept payments from the latter, with no risk of fraud. Ideogram is already in the process of onboarding over 1000 businesses in the US.

A software company for building apps with Facebook Messenger. The startup has built apps for the likes of Unilever and Airbnb. It’s a platform for chat bots, and allows companies to build chat bots in minutes.

A tool that helps people manage their work schedules, while also reducing the amount of time they spend on administrative work.

A tool to help you find the best developers for your new project.

A group of employees at a company that make up a “workcommittee” that can be used to solve internal conflicts.

The company’s first product is an AI-enabled conversational assistant, available in the US and spoken in English, Spanish, and French. It turns a user’s smartphone into a virtual assistant, with text-to-speech capabilities, a voice dialer, and other features

A payment startup that offers a money transfer service for small and medium-sized businesses. The company has a network of partners that cover 90% of all businesses.

A platform that helps companies find and hire talent. The company wants to be the LinkedIn for the hiring process, allowing companies to do a search for their needs and then being able to find candidates who match the roles easily.

A startup that provides software to help eCommerce store owners who are trying to grow their business

A B2B company that connects companies with Indonesian factories that can produce goods at a lower cost than competitors outside the country.

A tool that helps users digitally store and organize their books, CDs, or other media.

This startup is looking to monitor and track the performance of solar panels so organizations can make better decisions on whether to invest in them.

This startup wants to bring the benefits of paperless medical records to India. They’re currently looking to partner with hospitals in India to make it easier to transfer medical records.

A free and open-source tool to help marketers create the same kind of email campaigns that we can create in AdWords, but with less of a hassle and less cost.

A market research app that helps companies understand the wants and needs of their consumers better. It’s paid for by a company like SurveyGizmo or SurveyMonkey that charges a small fee every time a survey is completed.

Sphere is a new approach to online education based on the idea that online education is too expensive for many students and doesn’t provide high enough quality instruction. Sphere offers a free, high-quality education to anyone in the world.

Idea: A customizable, machine learning-driven planning engine for autonomous vehicles

A machine learning startup that helps companies predict whether their sales will meet their forecast.

A tool that allows you to edit the source code of websites.

AirBnb is launching in India, but more importantly, the startup is looking to grow its presence in other parts of Asia and even the Middle East.

A startup that helps homeowners advertise their homes for sale using Facebook ads

A company that makes virtual reality experiences for medical training and education, and has already trained over 50,000 people on its platform.

A “decentralized healthcare network” that wants to build a network of medical facilities that have doctors on staff, rather than relying on rooms of other medical professionals.

This startup wants to help apps that are live broadcast their broadcasts live.

A startup that is “building the first universal OS kernel”.

A startup that creates a suite of tools to help companies recruit, interview, and hire.

"Wired" magazine named the list of the "75 Smartest Entrepreneurs in Technology" on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the magazine.

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A company building a “personal concierge” app that connects people with the professional services they need. The CEO says the app is built with a focus on the “a la carte” experience, not the “the-big-package-of-everything” experience.

A SaaS accounting service focused on small businesses. It’s powered by Intuit’s QuickBooks enterprise software.

A startup that helps business owners build a team of virtual assistants, who are then paid per project.

A software company that helps retailers sell more products in-store by giving them tools to measure sales in real-time.

A startup that pairs freelance designers with clients to create logos, websites, and more

An automated phone system for people dealing with anxiety and depression, the idea is to free up employees to work on other things.

A way to help consumers create a custom playlist.

A tool for managing a sales team, helping reps track and forecast sales. The company says it has been in private beta since April and is currently focused on small businesses.

"A platform for philanthropy," focused on making it easier for individuals to give to causes.

A software developer that works with companies to help them design and build self-service sales and lead management systems. The startup, which launched in 2018, has 150 clients.

A fintech product for US credit unions for managing bank accounts.

A tool that helps users manage their electricity usage with a dashboard.

An “Uber for writers”. This startup is “building the Uber of writing jobs”. It’s an app that allows writers to get paid for their work directly, without having to deal with a third party intermediary. They’re already working with about 20 clients.

A company that is building a tech platform to facilitate conversation and relationships between employees of a company.

Builds and markets solar-powered electric bicycles, like the one below, that can carry up to 300 pounds and travel up to 60 miles per charge.

The startup wants to create a way to make buying and selling cars easier.

A way to leverage AI to perform custom formulas on data sources

A tool for sales reps that can push and apply discounts to customers even if they don’t have a card. The startup is partnered with Macy’s and Sephora.

A startup to find and buy used furniture, which makes the process easier for both buyers and sellers. The company is currently in beta, with the site having been live on a small scale for just over a year.

A system for automatically identifying potential threats on the internet and alerting users through push notifications.

A company that helps people record their own videos and helps businesses create them.

The company’s target market is the 50 million people in India who have mobile phones but do not have bank accounts. The app uses SMS and a mobile number to allow the user to transfer money into their account.

A social network for shared care that pairs doctors with patients.

A startup that helps you organize your life, like a DVR for your podcast listening.

A platform that helps large businesses manage their supply chain, with a mobile app that lets users order and track products. It’s backed by Airbus and seen as a competitor to Shopify.

A digital payments app that allows users to pay merchants by scanning a QR code or scanning their phone at a point of sale.

A mobile app that helps students get a solid night’s sleep, with a goal of increasing student performance.

Dedicated to helping tech companies build more sustainable products, it’s a platform for tracking products’ carbon emissions and life cycle, and helping companies figure out what to do to reduce them.

A software platform for publishers to create, share, and monetize digital magazines. The company is a digital media company and content platform service provider.

A company that’s looking to solve the problem of tracking and maintaining essential household appliances and cars.

is a SaaS company which offers small and medium sized businesses a free way to market their products and services online.

A startup that helps people find affordable health care services. The startup also offers a service that helps people who need a doctor find one via a map.

A healthcare service that provides a platform for human resources to view and search through the health records of employees. Providers can also use the platform to set up secure access for their employees, and then billing details are sent automatically.

A business intelligence tool that helps businesses collect, organize, and analyze their data.

A utility for "smart" homes from the makers of Nest, Dropcam and Honeywell. Eko is a new company that aims to bring more automation to everything from thermostats to security cameras. The company started with a thermostat that can be programmed through an app and communicate with a connected garage door, but it’s now also trying to develop a home security system that will stop someone by recognizing their face and sending a message to their phone.

The startup wants to help more than 50,000 SMBs get more control over their data with a customer relationship management tool that integrates with all their business data sources.

A product recommendation engine that looks at the user's preferences in a typical internet application and recommends other related items.

A tool that aims to help create a beautiful, custom, and interactive Facebook News Feed.

The startup is building a platform that creates a social network for people who have moved abroad. It's also an online marketplace for goods from around the world.

A startup that helps travel insurance companies manage policy data. They sell their software to clients and use the revenue to pay their team.

A startup that’s developing an app that allows users to crowdsource design work in real time. As the company says, “the platform is set up in a way that allows site visitors to create a profile, to rate designs, and to leave feedback on the designs of other site visitors. The power of the platform comes from the fact that it’s powered by a community of designers that are incentivized to be helpful.”

A tool for storing long term notes, pictures and documents that allows you to collaborate with others, share links, and make edits.

A tool that helps companies hire and keep their own employees, allowing them to manage all the company’s data on a single platform from a single UI.

A platform to help sales people connect with business partners in real-time. The startup helps sales reps and business partners connect using Facebook Messenger.

A mobile app that gives users the ability to pay for parking in advance.

Building a tool for people to securely deposit and invest their money.

A startup for women’s health products that helps users compare products and prices.

A startup that wants to build an analytics platform for restaurants, which they claim will allow restaurants to engage in more precise, targeted marketing, and track employee satisfaction.

A platform that helps people purchase home insurance and other insurance products

A tool to help developers build apps that can access private health data.

The startup helps people get a credit score for free and use it for financial decisions.

A startup which makes a Wi-Fi app for couch potatoes, helping them find free, unsecured Wi-Fi.

The B2B company wants to “help companies make better decisions with less data”, using machine learning to analyze data to get more insights. The startup is focused on a few industries, starting with financial services.

A startup that will allow you to “track your position in the world of work” by allowing you to track how you’re doing in your job search.

A decentralized insurance marketplace for global insurance.

As one of the first enterprise-focused venture-backed startups, Placed is building a platform that allows employers to create a database of their employees and their location, as well as see which of their employees they can “Placed” in the time they need to pay them.

A startup for buying and selling home appliances. Their current focus is on selling used appliances, which they want to make a one-touch online purchase process.

A subscription-based service that helps companies digitize products and products in the process.

A startup to help e-commerce stores in China manage their inventory.

A startup that helps businesses create a more efficient CRM system by collecting data from multiple sources and automatically integrating it into a single sales pipeline.

An AI-powered chatbot that helps people find and make reservations at restaurants with the ease of an automated messaging system.

A self-serve platform for saving money on auto insurance or just comparing rates, which they say is “faster, cheaper, and more comprehensive then any other website”. They currently have $2.5 million in monthly recurring revenue and are looking to launch in Miami and Atlanta.

A US-based startup that offers business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) products for social media influencer marketing

Use site analytics to improve your user experience and maximize your website’s potential.

A blockchain-based loyalty program that rewards consumers for shopping at a merchant's site.

A company that helps to build and maintain the database that banks use to make lending decisions.

A tool for searching and accessing email accounts. The company wants to be a “Google for email”, with users able to connect email accounts from different providers.

A fintech product for US credit unions for managing bank accounts.

Idea: A scheduling app for hair salons, meant to streamline the process of booking appointments and also to provide a better customer experience by allowing customers to book their appointments directly through the app

A SaaS service that helps businesses manage their social media accounts, and make money from them. The startup charges a fee for the service, but it’s unclear how much.

This app helps people create a single dashboard that tracks all of the companies they’re working for.

A crowdsourcing startup that provides access to a network of freelance graphic designers for companies, who then work on a per-hour basis to create graphics, web content, and logos for companies.

This startup wants to disrupt the insurance industry by creating a platform that connects users directly with experts and their claims.

A health app that lets users track everything from their fitness to their moods

A platform that helps parents manage their children’s everything from school and extracurricular activities to college visits and birthdays. The founders say they’ve launched a beta version of the platform that lets parents order and schedule activities, and set rules around cancelling and rescheduling. The founders also have a personal story about how their startup led them to discover their company’s mission.

A platform that enables people to build and sell products, such as digital goods and services, through a marketplace.

A new kind of elevator for startups, allowing them to have private offices with WiFi, ergonomic desks, and multiple private conference rooms.

A company focused on helping clients with growing their presence in Asia. Its app helps people navigate Asia’s credit card market, which is significantly different from the US market.

Businesses often have to deal with the issue of creating a “high security environment” to pass over their payment information to someone. Entrepreneurs Ryan Levitt and David Honig say that the good news is that the process has basically become “the same as logging into Gmail,” and they’ve developed a simple, secure solution that they’re now using in their own businesses.

A full-service insurance agency, providing agents with a suite of tools to help them manage their clients and business.

A "smart home monitoring" startup focused on energy efficiency. It's currently in a pre-launch stage, with a device that allows users to remotely turn off lights and lock doors with a smartphone, and the company says it has acquired $2.4 million in seed funding

This is a company that wants to help companies keep an eye on their employees. The company launched in late May and has already taken over $100,000 in seed funding.

A company that makes workout equipment for the gym, such as barbells and dumbbells.

A startup for artists that maps out the best places to sell their art.

A platform that aims to teach people using “word of the day” style lessons, by using the words they know in a real-world context.

New York based startup that is taking the stress out of managing your own private cloud, allowing you to manage your own servers, backups, and other essential infrastructure.

A company that aims to eliminate the need to print invoices. The company’s platform handles e-invoicing, and sends out a PDF invoice to the customer automatically. They’re currently operating in California and New York.

The idea is to be the Airbnb for airships and to make it easier for people to book and manage them.

A single platform to help companies understand and engage with their customers, and act on that data. The startup is testing out a platform designed to serve the needs of small-to-medium-size companies, and then help them scale as they grow.

A startup that specializes in helping people who are struggling with their finances. The app helps people budget their money and spend wisely.

A startup that helps caregivers create their own day-to-day schedules for their patients to ensure they’re not over- or under-scheduled.

A platform for companies to manage the process of hiring, onboarding, and training employees, pairing employers with candidates through a series of one-on-one interviews before managing a candidate’s learning process and performance in a single place.

A tool that allows people to create their own personalized product pages on Etsy by uploading photos and text.

A system that tracks a person’s location and data for the purpose of health management. The startup wants to make it easy for people to have a better understanding of how their data is used.

This startup helps insurers manage their data and make it easier to process claims. They’ve built a database of medical claims, which Insurify pulls into their system to make it easier for insurers to make their claims process more efficient.

A startup that lets users check into a space on Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare to see photos and reviews of the space, and view events happening there.

A set of tools for the financial services industry, which includes a portfolio tool, a loan calculator, and a credit analysis tool.

A micro-insurance company that is beginning to offer healthcare coverage to low-income individuals in the US. Their goal is to reach the uninsured and help them purchase insurance.

A logistics platform that allows shippers to post jobs, set rates, manage their accounts, and track shipments.

A workplace application that automatically analyzes emails to determine which emails are the most important and should be answered immediately. It’s trying to replace the traditional “email triage” process with a more targeted process that says, for instance, “take care of these 10 emails first, then this one”.

This is an on-demand cleaning service. When you order, they send a cleaner that cleans your house and leaves it in its original state for you.

A startup focused on the healthcare industry that partners with pharmaceutical companies to build data products to make drug development more efficient.

A health-tech startup that works with hospitals to manage treatments and operations

A company that helps filmmakers and production companies track their work from beginning to end

A startup that’s trying to help its customers locate and recover data that’s become inaccessible. It’s also building a “backup as a service” solution, so you can set up a snapshot of any data that’s important to you and have it automatically stored online.

A company working on a mobile app that will allow users to share trips with friends and family, and see where they are going. The founders say they can currently see users traveling to over 100 countries with the app.

A web/mobile app that helps small businesses collect their customer data for marketing.

A small-business loan that’s structured to minimize interest rates and minimize risk and uncertainty.

A company that helps teachers who don’t have access to iPads and other education technology tools.

A startup that helps companies get energy-efficient lightbulbs into their warehouses. They’ve already sold over 1,000 LED bulbs in a few months.

The idea is to provide a home base for travelers, since many are uncomfortable with the idea of being fenced in.

A platform for the entertainment industry to create, manage, and monetize its content. The startup says it will help artists “pivot to new business models, stay profitable, and expand their business”.

A startup that provides a service for people to have someone come to their home and give them a hand with cleaning, etc

A crowdsourced product review platform for groceries and other products.

A startup that helps people create, distribute, and sell music online. According to its founders, there’s a $30 billion music industry in the US, but it’s almost entirely untapped in the digital space.

A startup that wants to help companies automate their marketing campaigns across social media.

A way to find cheap, reliable electricity, with solar panels on the roof.

A company that helps people manage their wine collections. The startup is building a wine database and app that lets users track their wine collection in real time, save it to their phone, and save it to the cloud.

d.i.s.e. is building a visual editor for creating and publishing content on the web.

Integrated system for tracking and managing real estate transactions for companies. The company works directly with the actual seller, so it can offer tax advice and other services.

A platform that helps people find and book home services, like cleaners and handymen. The startup currently has 30 employees and is profitable.

A tool for creating and testing chatbots, and an SDK for building chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack and Kik

A startup focused on expanding the definition of who and what can be a customer

A platform that helps companies manage, track and monetize their content. They have three enterprise customers on board, including T-Mobile and a law firm.

A startup that makes it easier for people to get home deliveries from local restaurants, as well as offers a mobile payment system.

A SaaS company that offers a platform for managing employee benefits. It provides a software dashboard for insurance providers to compare health plans and find the best benefits to offer without having to communicate directly with consumers.

A platform that helps non-profits raise money by selling sponsorships.

A Hong Kong-based startup that is doing a joint venture in China with a Chinese partner. The two companies will work together to build a consumer product in China, and then later in Hong Kong.

A tool that helps search engine optimization professionals track the effectiveness of their work.

A platform that enables users to check their credit scores and buy discounted or free credit scores from multiple credit reporting agencies.

An “entrepreneur” app that helps you read business books at your own pace.

A recommendation engine that helps you find what you like and suggest similar products to you.

A startup that lets users check out with a credit card, then pay with Venmo, Apple Pay, or more.

Idea: Build custom apps around on-premise hardware

“The last mile” of ride-hailing apps is the last mile to a person’s home. The startup wants to build an app that helps people find a driver to take them home.

A company that helps companies buy the most cost-effective insurance coverage for their employees as a group.

A mobile app that shows users what it would cost to buy a particular product in different cities.

A way to track and manage your medical expenses.

The startup will deliver custom-made soundtracks to the home, so you can listen to it in your own car, or at work.

A Slack-like platform for online chat rooms and one-on-one messaging using customizable avatars to represent each user.

A company that is working on a peer-to-peer lending marketplace platform that connects lenders with borrowers. CommonBond has raised $30 million to date.

A location-based messaging app that helps people connect with friends at various venues.

A US-based startup that offers business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) products for social media influencer marketing

A hardware startup that’s building a new type of computer that’s designed to be secure, power efficient, and small enough to fit on a keychain.

A platform that helps independent restaurants stay in touch with their customers, allowing them to reach out to customers, providing deals, and keeping track of orders.

A portfolio of music and lecture channels that are available for 24/7 streaming.

An iPhone app that helps people find and reserve concert tickets

A company that builds an ordering platform for farmers to get their vegetables and products to market faster.

A company that makes whiskey-inspired food and drink, with the goal of bringing new flavors to the market.

A computer science student who wanted to help his parents, so he built a website for them to search for and buy used cars, and a mobile app to help them make appointments.

World Rugby is building a digital platform that lets fans follow their favorite team and save highlights of games and other content. The company says it can also offer more ways for fans to engage with the team, and has a team of rugby enthusiasts for their first major customer, the New Zealand Warriors.

A digital platform that helps companies with everything from marketing to sales, with a view to helping it evolve into a full-service marketing agency.

A startup tackling the stigmas around mental illness and jobs in the US

A startup that helps companies integrate their Slack teams with existing email and phone systems.

A startup that helps people find the right mortgage by securing a lender with a network of experts who know the market well.

A startup that helps clients schedule doctor visits and connect with local doctors in their area.

A “productivity suite” that offers a suite of tools to help users track, review and improve their performance.

A company that offers a platform for delivery of medical supplies to remote and underserved communities.

A web-based video editor with a focus on video production

A Chrome and Firefox extension that turns a link or a picture into a QR code.

A tool to help writers set their own rates for the use of their work.

A software company that works with small businesses to help them automate the creation of their websites based on their business needs.

A data visualization tool for account managers and growth teams. The startup wants to help salespeople visualize their accounts and see where their best prospects are.

An insurance company that allows companies to insure their employees’ health on their own terms across multiple plans.

A company that aims to provide a way for people to manage their investments.

A seed-stage startup that’s building a software platform for the pipe industry. They’ll be able to manage schedules, track equipment and provide an interface to the general public.

A workplace culture survey system. The startup is building a platform that helps recruiters recruit better by pulling together data from a variety of sources, including surveys, transparent reviews from past employers, and social media.

The soft-spoken CEO of Young Living believes that as the industry gains more attention, it will lose the stigma it once had — and that “the stigma will fall like a rock”.

A startup that crowdsources legal advice by using “smart contracts”.

An API for merchants and sellers to create promotions for their products, with an API for consumers to buy their products at a discount.

A startup that helps employers and HR departments manage the hiring process and recruitment. They’ve raised $1.2 million to date, and their 10-person team has already signed on to work with 500 startups.

A place where people can shop for high-end, cheap, and secondhand sunglasses. The startup’s founders are a pair of optics industry veterans with an idea for a pair of industry-focused sunglasses, and a desire to sell them directly to consumers.

A platform that helps workers find jobs and employers find workers.

It’s a “smart” alarm clock that can only be used once, so it only has to wake up once. The company also has a “smart” alarm clock that can only be used once, but it also has a mute button. The company also has another alarm clock that can be used instead.

A startup that helps brands and developers build mobile video games. Their platform easily integrates with existing games and offers a suite of tools for onboarding, publishing, and monetizing.

A tool for building personalized career/life plans, with a focus on the intersection of business and spirituality.

A company that helps people record and share their medical stories for future doctors to review by using a social network.

A company that helps you find the best restaurants in your city

A startup that wants to create a new class of companies that can run their own data centers as a service.

A social network for financial advisors, aimed to help them find new clients and provide timely advice.

A startup that collects data on the world’s grains to help companies monitor and improve sustainability.

A tool helping people make an audio track of their life, from a single instrument, so they can share that with their friends and family.

A company building a product that allows customers to access their own data, such as credit scores, on the backend and make changes, such as whether to add a new credit card or request a raise, without having to get in touch with a provider.

A tool that allows you to create and manage your own variety of financial instruments. Think of it as a Pinterest and Facebook for financial funds, with a focus on helping people raise money from friends and family.

A startup to help users find the best docs, products, and services to meet their needs. It’s a tool for sales and marketing teams to help them make the most of their marketing dollars.

This startup is building a machine learning API and API management software to help developers and enterprise teams manage API access and API security.

A professional recruitment platform for people who want to work from home. The startup is currently in YC, but is still raising funds.

This startup builds an app to help you find a high-quality hotel when you’re traveling. The company wants to help people find the best hotel for their needs.

A company that sells handcrafted greeting cards in a variety of designs and styles. The startup is one of the few that has the ability to make all of its designs from scratch, and its founders say that it has a very loyal customer base.

A healthcare platform that rewards doctors for helping patients and generating revenue for the practice.

A startup that an online marketplace for VR powered by blockchain to reduce the transaction cost

A startup that allows companies to deliver a customer service experience that is both efficient and personable. The startup is a spinoff of a company called Customer.io, where the founders had to implement a customer service software for a customer support company.

This company wants to help small businesses, independent contractors, and freelancers manage their taxes.

An on-demand delivery service for grocery orders in India. The startup is looking to disrupt the supermarket model in the country by providing a delivery service for online grocery orders.

A startup that tries to make sense of the wisdom of the crowds to help people make their decisions

A platform that helps people buy and sell single family homes. Currently focused on the UK. The company is using a combination of software and crowdsourced data to help buyers make smarter decisions.

A startup that sells a $10 device for managing your finances.

A member-driven credit union that allows members to invest their money in peer-to-peer lending. The startup raised an $8 million round in April 2019, and plans to roll out to the UK and Germany in 2020, as well as other countries.

A startup that sells books about how to perform artsy activities

A company that wants to get people into yoga while helping them get more flexible.

A startup that helps business send out invoices, collect payments, and generally manage a business’s finances.

A startup that helps build and nurture websites or mobile apps

A digital marketing platform that helps B2B companies reach out to individual clients

This startup aims to help employees manage their work product by helping them find the right people to collaborate with, manage projects, and get paid.

A tool for helping business owners find the right headhunter to fill a position.

A startup that’s trying to build a new kind of HR software that can help replace the old-school HR role. It is hiring in the US

The startup is building an API for retailers to offer their customers the ability to pay for their purchases with their smartphone.

A platform that helps those with a low income access energy efficiency services.

A mobile loyalty program on the city’s streetcars. Citymapper has a small but active mobile app for iPhone and Android devices that is a map of the subway and bus system in London. The company is also building a loyalty program that rewards users for using it.

A tool that helps you keep track of the book you read, and which you can then automatically give to a friend.

While we can’t currently tell you which companies are the most successful, we

A SaaS platform that helps businesses adopt, and deliver, digital products. It aims to help companies accelerate their digital transformation while making it easier to adopt and operate new technology.

A company that helps manufacturers get their products to market faster. The company uses automated tooling facilities to produce prototypes.

A startup that helps recruiters connect with the right candidates through a database of engineering graduates, with a twist: the startup’s algorithm finds the best fit for each job, rather than the recruiter. It’s still in stealth mode

A company that works with food producers to “transform activities that might otherwise be wasteful”

A startup that runs on phones and apps where users can connect with local businesses directly.

In the last year, we’ve seen the creation of several new VC-backed startups, many of which we expect to grow into companies worth $50 million or more in the next year. (A few are already there.) Here’s a look at some of the most promising:

A digital assistant for the elderly, designed to better help older adults live life and become more independent. The startup wants to integrate a concierge service with a robotic companion.

A startup that creates a directory of people who are trained to do repair work on a variety of things like plumbing, electrical wiring, and AC work

A contract-based service that helps small businesses run more smoothly. It’s originally a tool for restaurants, but is now a general-purpose HR tool that helps handle all of an employee’s needs, from payroll to benefits to taxes.

A platform that allows people to choose the best time of day to start a workout, with a built-in coach to guide them through their workout session.

A company creating a consumer credit score, charging a monthly fee to help you get a better credit score.

A tool that helps people collaborate and streamline the creation of digital content.

A startup that uses AI and an artificial brain to analyze and predict what new products should be in the marketplace.

A startup that helps companies manage and track the money spent on their branded conference rooms at hotels.

A B2B company that helps employers automate holiday giving.

A platform for agencies to manage and price out projects.

This startup wants to use machine learning and cryptocurrency to make “recommendations” based on what you might want to listen to.

The startup wants to give you a way to track your health records, like a Fitbit or Apple Watch.

A startup that allows you to search the internet for photos of your favorite band, and allows you to “unlock” the images with a code.

An “Ask-a-Vet” app that directs users to the nearest vet, and is backed by PetMed Express, a pet supply retailer.

A tool that turns your Dropbox account into a

A complex, distributed system that turns your phone number into a digital identity. It aims to provide a digital identity for every person on the planet, allowing them to access online services.

A product that helps people save on bills by switching to the cheapest energy provider in their area.

A startup that allows users to track their digital assets and take measures to protect their intellectual property.

A company that aims to help companies track spending for every product they ship and identify opportunities to reduce costs.

A new wireless charging platform that uses electromagnetic induction to charge devices with a wireless charger.

A startup that helps restaurants, caterers, and event planners book their events online. The startup wants to make it easier for event planners to get the most booked events.

A tool for home-sharing platforms to manage the ratings and reviews that the hosts of their listings get from the renters.

A software company that helps automate internal databases, including CRM data and other company data.

A company that helps people sell their private assets or their company's shares.

A SaaS accounting service focused on small businesses. It’s powered by Intuit’s QuickBooks enterprise software.

A startup to help people make good financial decisions by presenting them with an income forecast for every month of a job and helping them see how much they need to save for retirement.

A tool for talent acquisition, like LinkedIn, but for startups. Covers things like scheduling, calendar management, etc. and helps startups keep track of their own employees.

Helping merchants automate their marketing. They use machine learning to create triggers for email campaigns, customer retention, and sales.

A B2B service that helps companies manage and track their B2B invoices.

The company wants to help small businesses sell stuff online via a DIY marketplace.

An idea to transform the world’s traditional volunteer work into a more efficient, tech-savvy model.

A platform that allows people to take online surveys.

A startup to help companies manage the data they collect in their stores, for example, that can be used to help them find new products or make marketing plans.

A tool that enables users to compare and request quotes from insurance companies without leaving their current application. The startup is in an early stage of its funding.

A platform that helps companies organize their email, Slack, and other messaging systems. The startup’s founders say it can save companies 5% to 30% on their monthly email costs, and that it’s used by companies like MercadoLibre, Zappos, and Expedia.

A new, open-source way to build rockets.

A company that helps media brands find and promote content creators on social media, as well as offering a suite of services to content creators. Currently has 1,000 users.

A free service that hosts a micro-website by your email address, with an easy-to-use interface that can be used to share anything from links to photos to a whole website.

An iOS app that lets you get a ride with a stranger to get to work, without you having to pay for the ride.

A startup building a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects people and cars. The startup is building an app that connects those two, with features like showing the most recent model car available and storing cars in a secure database.

This startup wants to use blockchain to help people get free school supplies, food, and health care.

A startup that helps small businesses manage their supply chains. The app helps small businesses connect with their vendors, track orders, and automate the payment process.

A market research startup that conducts surveys online, filling in the gaps in businesses’ own research to help them make more informed decisions.

A startup that helps companies with analytics on their customer acquisition costs, and then recommend how much cash they should spend.

A startup that’s building a delivery app for small businesses. The company says it can save small retailers “up to 50% in time and money”.

A company that helps doctors stay on top of their patients’ health records and scheduling

FinTech startup that allows people to send payments via text message.

An online platform for peer-to-peer lending in India. The startup serves community microlenders in India that are looking to lend out smaller amounts of money to people in need.

A startup that’s building a database of bikeways and trails for cities

A startup that wants to help customers in India manage their money in a single app. The startup’s goal is to create an Indian version of a Venmo-like app, but specifically for Indian users.

A way to manage your child’s homework, with a feature for tracking progress, formative feedback, and a way to customize lessons for individual kids.

A startup platform for managing and sharing biological samples. The startup takes samples from patients, runs them through a machine that identifies what is in the sample, and then uses that information to help doctors diagnose their own patients.

A startup that helps your home become an office. The startup offers a set of tools to manage and organize tasks, like setting reminders and adding action items to an ongoing project.

A startup that offers unique white label savings, that lets users use a single card for all their purchases and save them money. The company says it has $15 million in annual recurring revenue.

A company that tries to make the world's best artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

A new way to find a doctor, through a website that matches patients and doctors based on their preferences. For instance, if you want a doctor who’s available on nights and weekends, then you can search by location and hours in advance.

A startup that allows you to capture and share your notes and thoughts on the web.

A startup that allows you to use your phone as a virtual assistant. It works with Siri, and allows you to ask questions and get answers (“How tall is Beyonce”)

A way to help people share and sell their assets, from furniture to cars, with a dedicated app.

A startup that’s trying to figure out how to make chatbots work for people. So far, it’s been tested as a Skype chatbot that helps you schedule a doctor’s appointment.

One of the top names in the market for payments app developers is now building a payments platform for the internet of things.

A chatbot that helps parents save money by helping them negotiate deals with companies

A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.

A platform to help companies manage and collaborate on their travel and expense accounts.

An on-demand, on-the-go, and on-the-nose resource for Pittsburgh families interested in buying a home in their city.

A company that helps startups in the consumer internet space build a subscription business model.

A virtual assistant that lets you ask your phone questions and get answers without having to look at the phone or type on the keyboard.

A free cloud-based accounting software for small businesses. The startup is looking to be a streamlined accounting system for the small business owner.

A personal development and productivity tool that helps you organize your day and tasks into a visual timeline.

A startup that provides a way to buy and sell tickets to concerts and sporting events. The company plans on expanding its ticket site to include more than just music in the future.

A ride-hailing and logistics company that helps farmers and farmers markets sell and deliver fresh food and other goods to customers.

A startup that allows people to set up “virtual” job interviews. The startup is currently in stealth mode and won’t be going public.

A SaaS tool for finding and booking open-ended, immersive style tours in any city. The startup also offers a booking platform for short-term travelers and an app that lets you book tours in advance.

Idea: A scheduling app for hair salons, meant to streamline the process of booking appointments and also to provide a better customer experience by allowing customers to book their appointments directly through the app

A health insurance company that covers “no-care” expenses for patients with chronic illness. Keeps health premiums low by covering expenses like dental and vision, with a background check.

A wearable that tracks your sleep and lets you know when it’s time for a nap.

A smartphone app for finding other people to share a ride in an UberPool or Lyft Line.

In the past year, the startup has funded a bunch of startups, including the one above, and has been the largest VC in Philadelphia since coming to the city in 2014.

A bot that can automate the process of selling products on Craigslist, on Craigslist, and on other sites where it can be sold. The product is geared towards online retailers.

A platform that allows users to host their own events online, using a mix of location-based technology to lure attendees and social media to attract attendees.

A new way to watch movies online. Using a tool called Puma, viewers can quickly find a movie and watch it with the option to purchase it for a fixed price.

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A web-based platform that provides users with a way to digitally record and collect feedback from their customers.

This L.A.-based startup is building a solution that connects “millennials” with their favorite brands and stores.

The founder of this startup grew up in a remote village in India and remembers a time when he was able to get a computer for the family and a year later they were able to get the internet. The founder realized the internet had brought a lot of connectivity to the country, but the next step was to bring connectivity to the millions of people who still didn’t have it. That’s what led him to start Jana, a startup that aims to give 1.5 billion people in India access to the internet.

A tool to help people in India manage their bank accounts.

A startup for cosmetics, where people can list and manage their inventory.

The startup aims to sell a $2,500 piece of hardware accessory to install in a car, which allows users to remotely control the vehicle while they’re not in it.

A mobile app where people can donate money to artists or bands that they like. The startup is working with artists like N.E.R.D., KATY PERRY, and SEX AND THE CITY.

A platform that helps people easily sell used furniture, household goods, and other items.

A data platform for farmers, allowing them to track their produce, bring in international buyers, and sell their produce in bulk. The company wants to help farmers increase their earnings by 3X.

A startup that makes it easier for small business owners to get insurance without actually having to do any work.

A "B2B" platform for small businesses to connect with other businesses for materials, services, or funding.

A platform that helps first-time homebuyers finance their first home.

A product that allows people to share their ideas with the world, giving the idea a vote of confidence and possibly even funding.

A startup that provides a service for professionals to post their resumes so that recruiters can find them

A platform that helps users create and buy custom stories for their businesses, letting them build custom landing pages, sales pages, blog posts, and e-books.

A startup that tracks the data that can be used to predict future events based on historical data. The startups founders say they have already proven the accuracy of the Georgia Tool Company’s algorithm that predicts earthquakes by looking at past earthquake data.

The company is a platform that provides a ‘mobile-first’ shopping experience. The startup wants to become a one-stop shop for all shopping needs.

The founders say that their product is “the best place to get the news, weather, and video you want.”

Idea: A software company that wants to build a platform for creating digital products that feels like you’re building in the real world.

A digital platform that helps companies with everything from marketing to sales, with a view to helping it evolve into a full-service marketing agency.

A B2B company that helps companies take their on-demand services to the next level. It’s a service that helps companies plan, design, and build the services for their business.

A company that is looking to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to help find and track down the most efficient way to route personal loans for customers.

A startup that helps long-distance runners “train like an athlete.”

A startup that provides a service to help people with Alzheimer’s, dementia or other memory loss problems

A device that can be attached to a bicycle seat post to help bikers and runners track their stats.

A company that runs an on-demand concierge service that provides products, services and tips to people.

A company that helps create automated tests for software developers. The company wants to make it easier for developers to write tests for their code without having to write the tests themselves.

A student loan refinancing startup that helps students pay off their loans before they graduate.

A startup that aims to create a “virtual reality digital assistant” that enables the AI to learn how to answer questions and converse with users.

A startup that aims to make a service for college students that helps them find and pay for housing, then pay it off through a loan.

A software company that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their expenses. The company currently has a deal with a large insurance company.

Idea: A startup that’s building an app to help students make their resumes more attractive to employers.

A company that makes it easy for brands to build and launch their own social media accounts, for free. They charge brands for the pages they create rather than charging a fixed subscription fee.

An IoT service that helps hospitals track and monitor patient care across different departments.

Idea: A mobile app trying to solve the ‘rejection’ problem that young students face when applying for jobs and internships A person can apply for jobs via the app and be notified if they’re not qualified, but it’s aimed at helping young people get over the shame of being rejected

A startup that provides an API for running security tests on git repositories.

A startup that helps you organize your finances by category and by type, and then makes it easy for you to see what you owe, who you owe, and where you owe.

A platform that helps you share and curate content from multiple publishers in real time. The startup's main goal is to help publishers and brands sell more stuff.

A tool that allows a team of people to quickly design a simple website from a master template.

A software company that helps ensure that buyers get what they need and have a good experience when buying a car.

A tool that helps insurance companies manage their claims. The startup is aiming to help insurers save money on manual processing and offer better customer service.

A way to buy and sell tickets for local events, like movie nights and concerts.

A way to share and store health-related data, accessible via an app, so people can both contribute and access it.

A startup that helps people with disabilities and elderly parents to keep track of their finances via an app that can be used on any phone.

Eterna is a company that wants to bring music to your fingertips, by putting songs on your phone.

A cashless system for secure payments

A startup for tracking your home energy efficiency for free.

An Uber-like app that helps people find reliable childcare. The startup is based in San Francisco and already has hundreds of parents on its waitlist.

A startup that hires and trains drivers to deliver groceries and other items within a 20-minute window.

This startup is building a system that’ll help healthcare providers in the US better manage their billing and patient records.

A personal finance management app for managing credit scores, debt and budgeting.

A platform that allows people to test out and share their own designs, called Viva Labs. The startup calls it “Uber for manufacturing” and is already helping people test their ideas out at the Maker Fair in New York City.

A platform that allows people to sell their old cellphones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic devices online.

A company that wants to help members of the LGBTQ community and other minorities get affordable health insurance. HealthForceOne has been in the market for almost a year, with a client list that includes the New York City Department of Health and the LGBT Center.

A mobile app that helps people find top-rated doctors or clinics that treat a specific illness or illness category (type 2 diabetes, back pain, etc.)

A company that’s building software for restaurants that helps them manage their menus, guest lists and food orders.

A platform to help users and businesses build and share digital products with a team of developers, designers, and marketers.

A blockchain-based real estate rental platform.

A digital marketplace for real estate agents to find and manage listings

A tool for building documents for large companies and helping the process run smoothly.

A platform that lets customers easily book appointments with a service provider. The startup’s clients include Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Seamless.

A distributed computing platform that helps businesses automate tasks they do every day.

A new startup that aims to modernize the payments industry for businesses, making it faster, cheaper, and more secure.

A consumer-facing platform that enables publishers to curate content for users with the goal of increasing interaction with content and driving more revenue for publishers.

A platform that helps ad agencies, marketers, and agencies reach people across multiple channels based on their interests, without having to find their personal email addresses.

A platform that allows customers to buy a specific film or lens and have it shipped directly to their door.

A startup that uses AI to help companies discover and track down missing packages.

SaaS for small businesses to better track and understand all their expenses, like shipping, insurance, and taxes.

A team management app for the engineering and design teams at a SaaS company.

In October 2017, AdExchanger ranked them as the #7 ad tech company to watch, and as of February 2018, they were ranked as one of the top 50 ad tech companies. In July 2017, they won the Red Herring Europe Award in the Enterprise Solutions category.

A platform that sells data to insurers. They want to act as a middleman between the insurance industry and the data they use to calculate risk, and they want to do it in a way that’s transparent and easy to understand.

A startup that wants to build a platform that lets people buy and sell debt on the blockchain.

A “Find Your Friend” app that lets people find each other.

A way to manage various third party APIs and mobile SDKs within an app. The company wants to make it easier for app developers to build and manage services on an app, particularly when they are building mobile apps.

A platform for recruiting external developers and designers, with a focus on turning work out quickly without the time and costs of traditional recruiting processes.

A startup that helps nonprofits build a social media strategy for their causes

A platform for companies to create, manage and track software development jobs, with a free software development life cycle.

A B2B company that helps companies take credit card payments from anywhere, from anywhere.

A productivity tool that allows anyone to create a personal dashboard of data. The startup wants to help its users track metrics across a variety of areas like energy consumption, sleep, and mood.

A hand-held device that makes it easy to take photos from your phone and transfer them to your computer.

A digital music store focusing on independent artists. The startup has signed up about 300 independent musicians to date, most of which are making money through streaming services.

A “social portfolio” that helps investors make more informed decisions about their investments

A company that makes using real estate listings data more accessible to the public.

A company that helps companies use the power of their social networks to promote their offerings online. They say they are the second largest influencer marketing agency in the industry, with clients like Dove and Nestle.

A DIY platform for home repairs, from painting to drywall installation to building a deck. The company wants to make it as simple as possible to have something built and out the door.

A startup that helps companies find and hire talent from the right countries, for the right price.

This startup is building a system that can help a central authority know a lot about a given community, including the political, religious and social values of a particular population.

A tool that helps users to search and find the cheapest flight possibilities between their city and their destination.

This company builds apps for the Lockbox app, a lockbox service that lets people store valuables in a secure location.

The startup is building an open source custom-built hardware for internet of things devices.

A social media marketing tool that lets you create posts, and then suggests the best time to post them.

A system that brings a SaaS-type software product to SMBs.

A startup that sells customer acquisition services for B2B companies. They’re focused on funding growth for their clients by providing free, one-time services such as marketing and customer support.

The startup is looking to pair the benefits of a collaborative economy with the efficiency of a shared economy. The company offers a system that can match the right person with the right job while also providing them with a flexible schedule.

A startup that helps musicians with royalty payments, offering a browser plugin, a mobile app and a white label solution for artists and labels.

A new type of credit card that functions like a debit card but with the ability to make payments without any money changing hands.

A toolkit for companies to build their own digital marketing and content strategies.

A “destination marketplace” that helps consumers find and book experiences, like spa treatments and wine tours.

Platform that helps you build your own personal brand, including a social network to help you make connections with others. The startup is taking the “personal brand” concept to a whole new level.

A tool that helps global teams collaborate and manage projects online.

A “social marketplace for manufacturing”, where manufacturers can find and price items from suppliers, and suppliers can find customers.

Idea: Website builder for non-technical people

A platform that allows farmers to offer their produce directly to consumers. This can lead to lower prices and increased food safety.

A platform for personalized digital health, a healthcare app that uses AI to help users think more about what’s good for their health and less about how to check off boxes on a calendar.

A platform for companies to take their digital marketing and make it more personal. The company is building a suite of tools that help companies make their marketing programs more personal.

A tool for people to find and book real estate in London, with a focus on the tech startup scene.

A startup that aims to make it easy for HR teams to identify potential candidates using behavioral analytics.

A platform for crowd-sourced marketing, where startups can run promotions with users for money.

A software company focused on creating web-based tools for managing the logistics of turning raw materials into finished products.

A B2B software company that works with companies to manage their sizeable legacy software deployments across large numbers of systems. The startup wants to help companies take advantage of open source and cloud infrastructure to reduce costs and scale.

A company that sells low cost digital cameras to students, aiming to help them improve their photography.

A company that aims to make it easy for you to create your own version of Dropbox or Google Drive.

This startup is building a little robot with a camera to help monitor your home while it’s not occupied, then alert you if there’s a problem.

A real estate startup that connects home buyers with remodeling contractors.

A startup that builds “lifelogging wearables” for people to track their health and fitness habits. It tracks blood sugar, blood pressure, heart rate, sleep, and activity.

A small startup backed by Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz is building a tool for pastors to share their sermons online.

This startup is building a system that allows you to automatically track sales by product, by region, by customer, by salesperson, etc.

A startup that wants to create a platform for managing the growing number of products that are connected to the internet, and which want to be part of the Internet of Things.

A tech startup focused on improving the industry of tech and tech journalism and tech media. The organization aims to “promote tech as a force for good, and tech innovation as a key factor in improving people’s lives.”

A platform for co-working, with a focus on helping remote teams work together.

This is an app that allows users to create and deploy content without the need for coding. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to create a website and get it live quickly.

A platform for users to search, share, and rate content made by media companies (think Youtube, Vimeo, etc.).

A tool that helps social workers create and share custom case notes with other social workers.

An AI-powered system that analyzes video for plagiarism and automatically flags the instances of it happening. It's currently in the pilot phase, with 1000 users.

An AI-powered tool for social media marketers, allowing them to increase the reach of their posts, and filling in all of the gaps in the traditional social media marketing process.

A tax preparation software that handles all the calculations for you, and gets you the most money.

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This startup wants to bring more transparency to online rental listings by creating a search engine that sorts and ranks homes based on their location, amenities, and price, as well as the number of reviews they have.

One of the most-followed accounts on Instagram is a personal food blog from a female scout leader, who shares recipes and photos of food. Cookbook.me wants to build a crowdsourced site that crowdsources content from bloggers and chefs.

A startup that’s building a dating app for people over 50. The app lets users browse by interests, post photos, and build their own profiles. Money is kept separate from the app, so the founders don’t have to have people have to delete their profiles if they don’t want to date.

The company focuses on office work, so it’s not a big surprise that the startup has a lot of talent around that.

A startup that allows you to grow a whole portfolio of assets with one purchase, such as a website, business card, email, etc. The startup allows users to mix and match different products to create a single portfolio, while driving down the cost of all of them.

This startup is making lifestyle capture devices that help people remember what they’re doing and where they’ve been at all times. It’s like a Fitbit and a Misfit combined.

A company that, like Thumbtack, allows people to find contractors and service providers, then allows them to rate them and find the best match.

A social network for people who have a hard time connecting with other people offline

A startup that wants to use AI to improve speech recognition for the blind.

A product meant to help developers replace their steam-based game server infrastructure with a more modular solution.

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

This startup is building a network of thousands of assistants who are the point of contact for people who need help with their health. The startup’s founders wanted to create a version of Amazon’s Alexa that could help people manage their health.

A software platform aimed at helping restaurant managers automate their operations.

A startup that combines cloud data storage and analytics to help improve IT decision making.

This startup is building a platform for small businesses to instantly buy insurance online without the need for a broker.

A company that makes a high-end smartwatch, the Guess Connect, which it says is the first smartwatch that enables users to “live a more connected life.”

A seed-stage tech startup that’s building a business on automating the process for a person to start a business in Singapore. They’re working with a small number of clients and focusing on operations but have a business model that allows them to hire more people as the business grows.

A platform for quickly getting and paying for the right medication. The startup has raised $10,000 from the University of Pennsylvania Startup Weekend.

A SaaS platform that connects customers with a vetted network of dog sitters.

A tool that helps teams communicate, with the goal of eliminating the “silly drama” and friction that come with team communication.

This startup is building an app that allows customers to order items from their phones and have them delivered to them.

This is an app that helps family members find each other on the road, in case they get separated.

A team of young data scientists who are building a platform to help companies build digital tools to make their customers’ lives easier.

A platform that uses machine learning to find U.S. jobs that are in high demand, like software engineering and truck driving.

A mobile-based identity management system.

A mobile app that helps people lose weight, based on a diet program called the “Bulletproof Diet”.

A plugin for Slack that lets users share files as text messages.

A startup that makes it easier for iOS and Android app developers to track their app installs from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, as well as download statistics.

It is a platform that helps people find jobs in their area of interest, and also allows employers to post jobs.

A startup that uses an IoT platform to automatically manage the delivery of goods in the same way that Amazon and Uber do. Founded in early 2019, they’re currently in talks with logistics companies in the US, Canada and Mexico.

A “Facebook for your finances”, enabling people to see where their money is going and how it’s being spent.

A startup that helps schools make more money from their online activities by directing the money that students spend on school supplies and other items to the school.

A startup that helps people fill out job applications and offers more accurate insights about what they’re truly interested in.

A chat app that allows you to chat with a network of friends you’ve made while traveling.

A platform that makes it easier for companies to manage payroll, benefits, and retirement. The startup has 100 customers and is profitable.

A platform for companies to create, manage and track software development jobs, with a free software development life cycle.

A tool for designers to create and manage their own product and marketplace collections. The startup is planning on using the site to sell goods from international markets.

A startup that builds software to help the people of Puerto Rico rebuild after Hurricane Maria.

A platform for finding chefs that can cook for you, for a fee, across a variety of restaurants. Peers who want to hire a chef post what they’re looking for, and chefs can bid on each request.

An insurance brokerage for commercial insurance specifically for small businesses.

A startup that helps companies test their messaging to ensure they’re turning customers into customers. A/B testing and analytics firm.

A tool that helps doctors and patients keep track of prescriptions, side effects, etc.

This is a SaaS application with a question and answer format that allows people to talk about ideas and their progress. The startup wants to build out a content management platform to help people publish their work.

The president of a company called Trip Monitor, who spoke about the startup in a recent episode of The Startup Podcast, says that Trip Monitor, which is built on the idea that hotels should give consumers a “tiered” experience when it comes to online reviews, has built up a database of over 10 million hotel reviews.

A platform that helps clients and teams track and manage project plans. The cloud-based platform is used by professional services firms, marketing agencies, and retail companies, with the company’s founders saying they’ve already grown to over $100 million in annual revenue.

A startup that helps fundraising professionals send real-time messages to donors using Facebook Messenger.

A minimum viable product, aimed at early adopters with a small budget

This company is looking to connect home buyers with people looking to rent out their basements, garages, and spare rooms. The startup has raised $1.6 million, and is interested in getting users to share their spaces with strangers.

An in-person recruiting company that pulls in employees from other companies to attend an in-person recruiting event, where they can meet with company leaders face-to-face.

A platform for the new, heavily-interconnected world of AI. The startup wants to allow artificial intelligence to leverage the data it’s constantly retrieving from the internet.

A digital tool for US colleges to create and manage their course management systems, from scheduling to tracking enrollment.

A company that helps e-commerce companies, mostly small ones, get their products to market faster.

An API platform for digital publishers to connect their content to Google, Facebook and Apple News.

This is the startup’s first product. It’s a portfolio of a dozen different products and software, including a time tracking app that gives employees a real-time dashboard of how they spend their time.

This startup is building a social network for doctors and patients to share experiences and track how a patient is doing on a particular ailment.

A startup that helps companies and students organize their schoolwork, store it, and share it

A tool for copying files between cloud storage providers.

A company that helps users and companies find jobs. The startup’s platform helps users apply for jobs in their area, helping them break into new industries and find careers.

A hardware startup that’s building a ground-based sensor network to monitor air pollution, with an eye towards monitoring air quality in the developing world.

A student loan refinancing startup.

A digital library for art and music that’s built using blockchain technology. It’s a decentralized system, built on top of the Ethereum network, that tracks and stores art pieces, but also allows for them to be accessed via a web interface.

A chatbot for the Spanish market, selling products across a variety of categories.

A startup that helps small businesses with their insurance needs. The startup is built on the backbone of a large insurance company and offers an online platform to protect small businesses from cyber risks and cyber thefts.

A 4th grade student created a video explaining the new health care bill and has over 1 million views on YouTube.

Fits a 3D scanner into a backpack so you can easily scan objects on the go.

A company that wants to connect your assets – from your home to your car – with the services you use at home, at work, and on the road.

A P2P tool that connects patients with specialists to find the right doctor.

This is a service that helps individuals track and manage their student debt. The startup helps people take action on their student loans, and offers the ability to pay off the debt with a monthly plan.

A startup that allows users to track their exercise, nutrition, and sleep habits, and then make smarter decisions based on their data. They’re building a platform to help users be more proactive in their health.

A tool for online selling that has no inventory management. The startup wants to make selling online as easy as “ordering from Amazon”.

A software company that helps create and manage custom e-commerce sites for brands.

A platform for data science projects, allowing people to submit their code and get feedback on it. They’re also working on a product that helps people sell their data.

A platform to improve the quality of customer service and make your employees happier.

The app allows people to pay off their student loans with a 25% monthly discount, which they say can be used for a wide range of things.

A real estate startup that helps customers find the best value on homes. It’s currently testing a model where customers can set their own price and get paid 20% of the difference between that and the property’s actual value.

This startup aims to transform the face of venture capital by making it more accessible, more transparent, and with more fairness to investors. The startup aims to provide investors with a better way to manage their portfolio, and better tools to manage their investments.

“We’re a real estate tech company that helps real estate professionals get paid.” The startup wants to help people lease out their homes and get paid — and make sure everything is done in compliance — all in real time with a mobile app.

The startup aims to help recruiters find employees, by matching them with people who are looking for a new job — eliminating the need to advertise to the general public.

Rebuild is a software company that’s building a platform to help cities rebuild after disasters. The startup is based in San Francisco and has raised $2 million.

The company’s investors include early Facebook investor Peter Thiel (and Peter’s brother, Bobby)

Gives small businesses and freelancers a place to create a “marketplace” where they can sell a product or service and find buyers. It’s a “marketplace of marketplaces”.

A startup to help people buy and sell second-hand goods, with an emphasis on helping people in emerging markets.

The company wants to create a crowdsourced set of office supplies, including note paper, highlighters, a notepad, a pens, a pen holder, a pencil sharpener, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a red pen, a whiteboard marker, a dry erase marker, a mini eraser, a phone stand, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business

A tool for notaries that would let them document the signatures of people signing documents in a way that’s easy to verify while still being completely verifiable.

A company that offers free, unlimited public Wi-Fi

A startup that’s building a machine that can read your medical records, listen to your voice, and communicate with you in non-verbal ways.

A company that helps you buy and sell more of your belongings on a marketplace.

A startup that helps companies find and recruit talent anywhere in the world. The company says they have over 1,000 clients ranging from top Fortune 500 companies to startups to large AIs.

A solution for auto-repair shops that sends customers an alert when a car needs service.

Idea: A software company that helps other companies build internal websites. They’re building a plug-and-play platform that they hope will become the “Salesforce for internal websites”.

A startup that helps companies pull in email addresses from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google accounts. It’s meant to help sales teams avoid the “cold email” process.

A startup that helps people explore the world around them by allowing them to connect with those who live near them and share their local knowledge

The startup’s goal is to make it easier for businesses to protect their intellectual property.

A B2B startup that helps companies like Uber and Lyft figure out how to best use their driver fleets.

A way to make your phone’s battery last longer. The startup uses a sensor that tells the phone when it is being charged and when the battery is running low. It then adjusts the phone’s power management settings.

A company that looks to make it easier for people to order delivery from restaurants through their cell phone, using an app.

A project-based funding program that lets companies quickly raise money when they need it.

It’s not uncommon for someone to wake up with a hangover, but it’s often a hassle to find something to drink that doesn’t taste gross. The startup wants to make sure there is always a drinkable alternative to the morning-after-party staple, water.

A chatbot that helps users figure out what to do next when they’re faced with a decision.

A startup to help people sell their used clothing and get a fair price. The company has a partnership with a charity that helps needy people in India.

A medical software company focused on digital health products for primary care physicians and hospitals.

A startup that helps non-profits and nonprofits raise money by sharing their stories. The company is a YC alum.

A platform where people can find the right caretakers for their aging parents.

A startup that’s building a way to help people book and get tickets to concerts, sporting events, or other events.

A new financial technology company that’s building a software platform that allows anyone to invest in a new business.

A startup where moms can use a mobile app to communicate with other moms in their area.

This is a startup that delivers “zero-emission” electric scooters to riders who are too old or infirm to bike.

An online marketplace for home services and the services of other contractors. Users can find services and contractors by keywords, and pay with a credit card or PayPal.

A startup that provides the ability to create and manage "living wills" for individuals to draft their own final wishes, with the goal of giving people peace of mind.

This startup has two co-founders, and they describe themselves as “…the first and only platform that helps [you] create and learn from inspiring and engaging content about personal finance, investing, and life.”

This startup wants to help restaurants and bars with a tool that helps them keep track of their inventory.

A platform for connecting people looking to hire consultants with those who have specific skills to help clients.

A video platform that allows you to group together people of similar backgrounds and interests and other users who want to join their group. It’s similar to other social networks like Meetup, but different because it’s built for groups of specific interests, like comedy or hiking.

A startup for bike share users in the Netherlands. It helps users locate bike share stations and find nearby bikes.

Proposed SaaS product that helps companies track employee health and injury data.

A platform for home services including repairs and insurance

A list-management app for restaurants. The company is focused on bringing a reasonable price to the market for customers who want to see a list of all the restaurants in their area, and offering a platform to send out reminders to the wait staff.

A mobile app that creates, share, and edit a variety of different categories, including photos, videos, and audio, in the cloud.

A toolset for US government agencies that helps them make better data-driven decisions.

A tool that helps people create a video resume and use it to apply for jobs on companies’ websites.

A healthcare startup that uses gamification to encourage people to get checkups.

A digital food safety application for importing food. It’s a tool for checking food safety once it’s on the plane, and an app to allow governments to track food in transit.

A startup that helps companies avoid the pitfalls of selling online. To do this, they use a series of tools to help businesses onboard new customers, track the performance of their site, and optimise their sales funnels.

This startup is building a virtual assistant that works on Slack and other messaging platforms.

A tool to help employees track their time on site and manage their overtime. Available on iOS and Android.

A community for independent contractors

The startup’s name is an acronym for the first three letters of “I Would Give Up”, the fourth letter of “Shit”, and the fifth letter of “Happiness”. The app lets users share stories anonymously that relate to the first three letters.

The following companies are the newest additions to the Crunchbase 50:

The idea is that this is an app that allows a person in a relationship to track the quality of the relationship. It comes from a team that built an app that helps people find a date.

A platform for meal-kit delivery designed to eliminate the “kitchen limbo” where people lose track of how much is left in the fridge and need to go buy more. It streamlines the process of sending the meal components to the client, then doing the cooking for the client and keeping track of when it needs to be delivered.

A medical biller that gives users a way to compare healthcare costs across providers.

This startup is building a software suite that integrates field data with information and insights that can be used to make better business decisions.

A startup that brings together the digital and physical worlds to make sure you’re prepared for any situation. Exos is a communications platform that will help you be ready before an earthquake hits, a hurricane hits, or a tsunami strikes.

A payment processing company that helps independent contractors simplify the process

An email marketing tool that helps e-commerce brands push their sales and follow up with customers. The startup needs to complete a YC Demo Day.

A software platform that helps cities find their best locations for parking garages and lots for cars.

Providing a way for athletes to train in real-time via web cam.

A startup that’s building a game-like platform for people to play table tennis against each other in real time.

A startup that’s building a one-stop shop for small businesses that spans several different verticals, including payroll, accounting and consulting.

This startup is developing a digital bank that will allow consumers to send money between countries with zero fees. The company is building the product for the Nigerian market.

A startup that helps employees to stay organized by renting out spare office space and giving them the use of a laptop.

This mobile payments company is building the technology that allows companies to collect payments on their apps through Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other mobile payment options, instead of sending out checks or cash.

A new way to donate blood. The startup wants to make giving blood as easy as going to the gas station.

The startup has been on a hiring spree and intends to hire 100 people by the end of the year.

A tool that helps companies take advantage of their Amazon Web Services infrastructure, and helps them automate tasks.

A startup that lets users rent out their spare bedrooms to guests

A startup that’s building a network of AI-driven bots that help people learn and grow professionally by giving them personalized and researched answers to their questions.

A startup that helps real estate agents manage their homes. The startup’s technology aims to eliminate the paper trail of homes, keeping them in one place so agents can easily track and make changes to the house.

A startup that sells “private” health insurance in the US with coverage that includes dental and vision.

A gamification startup that wants to take the traditional business school process of teaching sales techniques and make it more gamelike.

A platform for social good that aims to build a platform for giving to nonprofits.

A platform for telemedicine with video conferencing and a “virtual doctor” that makes appointments and answers questions

A startup that uses AI to bring crowdsourced information to the public sector. It’s based in the UK and works with various governments and NGOs.

A platform with a web-based portal for doctors to access patient information, allowing them to talk to patients or patients’ families remotely through video conferencing, or call them into their office.

The startup is building an iOS app that makes it easy to stream content from various sites, including YouTube. Similar to Viki, but for YouTube.

A digital agency that builds apps for banks and insurance brokers

A startup that wants to help banks and insurance companies manage risk by helping them to get more customers.

A digital assistant that helps you manage your personal, family, and professional life. It’s a skinnable interface that can be used by any age, and is designed with a focus on helping people “navigate their lives without distractions.”

A customer service platform for small businesses. The company claims to have $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and has been growing at a rate of 50% month-over-month.

A startup that’s working on a way to integrate human and machine learning workflows. The company wants to help companies do human-based AI as well as machine-based AI.

A tool for working with data in order to understand the real world. For instance, a medical researcher can use it to investigate how much stress the human body can handle, or to understand how people interact with their surroundings.

A startup that turns everyday objects into impulse buys, with a home decorator-like service for shopping and buying things you don’t need but want.

A leaderboard that uses push notifications and social media to let consumers know when their favorite brands are engaging with them.

A startup that is building an AI-powered inventory management system for retailers. The startup is working with retailers like Nike and H&M.

A software development company that wants to build tools that help startups avoid the pitfalls of hiring new employees.

A startup that works with real estate agents to help them become property managers. The company is growing quickly in the US, and aims to do the same in India.

A recent engineering graduate who landed his first job at Airbnb after dropping out of college. He’s building a startup that helps homeowners manage the process of selling their homes after leaving their landlords. Clients work with Clew to clean out their homes, give professional photos, publish their listing online, and receive bids.

A group email app that enables you to set rules for who can see what.

A virtual assistant which helps to manage finances, create budgets and control expenses.

A startup that takes the idea of a “personal chef” and extends it to the services of a personal sushi chef.

A luxury marketplace that pairs designers with makers who want to make limited edition products.

A startup that automatically creates and saves content from your phone's camera and gallery to your Dropbox account and automatically syncs to your computer. The app is free and available for both iOS and Android.

A new version of the Blockfolio app that offers a single dashboard for all your cryptocurrency holdings, as opposed to the current fragmented ecosystem of apps.

A company that helps doctors handle the immense volume of patient data to improve patient care and lower costs. It’s first product is a “data lake” that aggregates patient records and makes them searchable.

Evernote says it is building “a new type of tool” that lets you automate tasks like tracking donations, managing media, and keeping track of important people.

A startup that allows parents to monitor their kids' activities on a map, get notifications and get real-time reminders to keep them safe.

The startup is using machine learning to predict customer retention.

This is a service for professional photographers to sell their photos.

A wireless charging pad for your smartphone. The company is working to make the whole process of charging wirelessly faster, and also plans to work on a spot-on version in which a charging pad can be placed on any surface and a smartphone can be placed on top to charge.

A startup that makes it easy to book flights on Scandinavian airlines. It’s currently a YC summer program.

A company selling semi-conductors that are lower-cost alternatives to silicon.

This startup aims to build a “magic mirror” for a person’s bathroom vanity, making it possible for someone to see what their face would look like, without any makeup, in real time.

A platform for apps and websites to allow users to earn rewards from each other’s activity.

A company that uses AI to help healthcare organizations identify and take care of their members with specialized benefits needs.

An ad-tech startup that specializes in buying and selling mobile video ads.

A “CPA for the B2B market” that aims to help businesses get paid for their work.

Aside from partnering with brands such as Coca-Cola and Starbucks, Let’s Talk is a platform for people to create their own content and share it with a global audience.

A startup that helps companies adjust their business operations to be more profitable, with a focus on "lean operations" that can optimize use of resources and improve efficiency.

A startup that helps developers prioritize and track their projects. Instead of a long list of tasks, developers can create multiple tasks that run in parallel, with the app keeping track of their order. Other startups in the space include Asana, Basecamp and Trello.

Idea: A startup that helps students and recent grads find and apply for jobs The target market is students who are pretty much guaranteed to get a job, but the startup’s ambitions are much larger

A platform that aims to make it easier for companies to build more effective employee referral programs.

A startup that allows customers to buy groceries with a prepaid Visa card. It’s already in the works with over 16,000 users.

A developer API that lets developers create chatbots with specific features. The startup is targeting enterprise businesses.

The company’s founders say they are trying to build an affordable solution for people to pay for their dentist and doctor visits in the US.

A way for people to easily find and buy apartments, manage their leases, and track their rent payments.

A startup for renewable energy that allows users to create custom energy portfolios.

This startup aims to create a “single-page checkout” experience for retailers to improve the checkout process.

A platform that allows employers to test job applicants with automated interviews and then quickly and easily assign the best candidates to the jobs.

We’re seeing a trend of companies coming out with new ways to provide physical services, from ZzzZoom to I Am a Door, so it’s not exactly surprising to see a company that builds physical toys.

It’s a brand new concept in the world of advertising, using the “perks” of a travel-based credit card to show you ads you’d be interested in on a flight.

A design agency that helps small business owners build their brands with branding and social media. The company also offers a new kind of consultancy, called Brand Branding, that helps clients build their presence on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.

This startup is building a tool that makes it easier for people to track and save their money. They’re looking to consolidate debt and save money on interest.

The startup is working with a government agency in India to help people with low incomes get access to health care.

A toolkit made for companies that want to integrate machine learning into their workflows.

A collaboration platform based on Slack and messaging, but with real-time polls and tasks, and the ability to set deadlines and budgets.

A tool that helps employees get to know each other better by organizing office lunches.

A collaborative task management app for professionals.

A traditional pharmacy and health clinic that sells prescriptions and medical services online, but also provides telemedicine services. It’s aimed at people who want to shop and get care at the same place.

A digital platform that helps retailers predict demand in local markets for holiday products.

This startup is building a digital marketplace for homes, allowing sellers to find buyers and get an instant appraisal of the home they’re selling.

A startup that helps people make travel plans easier. The business is working with hotel chains and airlines to help them develop better online tools for making travel plans.

A soft-skill assessment tool, meant to help companies determine whether their employees are ready for a promotion or new job, before they even know they want to change jobs.

A software company that creates a computerized system for managing the daily paper purchasing and delivery process. This system will allow the company to automate much of the process, and make the company more efficient.

A cloud-based video chat system, one that allows businesses to see and guide customer service reps in real time.

A startup looking to help entrepreneurs in Africa start and grow businesses based on their unique needs.

An engineering staffing startup that partners with companies to bring in new talent. After a company does a demo, Minimum runs a search for top candidates using its proprietary algorithm. The company says they’ve so far found candidates at top engineering schools, raised $1.4 million in VC funding, and secured over a dozen jobs.

A platform that helps build and scale communities. It’s a collaboration tool for teams to publish and share their ideas.

A tool that helps brands and agencies create social media content that’s “faster, better, and more interesting”.

A startup that tracks how much time people spend on various things, and then automatically pays them. Aimed at product managers who want to make sure people aren’t getting distracted.

A startup that allows users to unlock their smartphones with the face. It’s a good tool for those with physical disabilities.

A startup that’s working to solve a problem in the credit card industry is using a partnership with PNC Bank to bring a check deposit service to 100,000 customers.

A messaging app for healthcare providers and people with chronic illness. The app is now in beta and has more than 1,000 users.

A startup that provides a set of tools for designers to create their own custom-designed clothes. The company uses a 3D printer to produce knit fabrics.

A way to organize shared teams, with shared calendars, instant messaging, and more.

The startup makes a “diagnostic X-Ray” for consumers, and is selling it to hospitals for $25 per unit.

A SaaS service that allows people to see what others are reading, or what they’ve recommended.

A platform for fleet managers to manage their vehicles, with a mobile app to issue lane changes.

A subscription-based service that helps companies digitize products and products in the process.

A social networking app that allows users to set up and run an online "party" for their friends.

A startup that tries to make sense of the wisdom of the crowds to help people make their decisions

A software that connects doctors with patients, and patients with doctors.

A startup that helps small businesses in Latin America integrate their credit cards, bank accounts, and bank transfers into a single mobile app. The company’s goal is to bring the power of tech to small businesses in Latin America.

A tool for building data pipelines, providing a full suite of tools for data engineers.

A platform for sharing stories about people’s experiences with depression and anxiety

A startup that specializes in helping people who are struggling with their finances. The app helps people budget their money and spend wisely.

A tool for helping companies recruit people in their own cities. The startup is working on a recruiting platform, and is also working on a marketplace for employees to find jobs.

A food delivery service using robots

“A social life-tracking app for the digital age.” Users will be able to share and manage their social calendars as well as their personal goals and activities.

This startup helps brands reach their customers on Instagram, based on a user’s browsing history. They say they have sold over $50,000 worth of ads since launching in April.

"A social platform for people who are too busy to decide"

Note: This list is not comprehensive, and does not include all the companies that applied to YC in 2017.

Food preparation with an interactive interface.

This is an online buying service for used cars in Los Angeles.

This startup is building a last-mile delivery platform that puts the onus on the customer to order their own food.

A micro-retailer selling premium coffee beans and selling their brand in retail locations

The company wants to create a new way for people to book travel, with the startup considering various uses for the tool. However, the company is not looking to develop a competing product to travel site Expedia.

A platform for farmers to connect with farm equipment dealers, to help farmers get the equipment they need quickly.

A tool for data scientists and researchers to create graphics from a database.

A way to help people spend less time on social media using services like Trello that allow people to organize their tasks.

Sphere is a new approach to online education based on the idea that online education is too expensive for many students and doesn’t provide high enough quality instruction. Sphere offers a free, high-quality education to anyone in the world.

This startup is building an AI that allows people to get their credit score through a simple app. The company says their AI model is based on over 1,500,000 data points, including credit card purchases, mortgage payments, and even Uber rides.

A tool that allows you to create a custom, color-coded portfolio, or “stack” of articles, products, etc. to show clients and investors.

A platform for streamlining the process of managing rental properties, meant to save landlords money on things like insurance and repair work.

Thoughtful home services that provide concierge services, cleaning, and other household issues. The company has $10 million in funding from investors including Michael Moritz.

This is a cloud-based tool for selling products that lets you track sales across merchants and get notifications when sales are made. It was built for e-commerce businesses, but the company says it can be adapted for other sectors.

A startup that wants to build an app for connecting into a car’s software systems, allowing drivers to make repairs or even tweak settings themselves.

A contact lens that can fool your eye into believing you’re seeing a TV.

A platform that aggregates a network of freelance designers and connects them to clients. The startup says it’s currently on track to earn $100,000 in revenue in 2016.

A provider of AI-driven software for financial advisors to manage client portfolios.

This startup sells drywall, plumbing and electrical supplies at discounted rates.

The startup is building a platform for the gig economy, letting people earn money through online activities, like cleaning homes, or driving Uber. It’s currently focusing on Indonesia.

A platform for companies to fund startups in exchange for equity in the startups.

A digital insurance platform that allows health plans to buy health insurance in bulk with a single click

A chatbot to help people learn on the fly about deep learning, AI, and AI-driven technology.

A new way to pay bills that cuts the cost of paper and the need to use a credit card.

A startup that helps users buy and sell goods quickly and efficiently across the web and mobile.

This startup is building a consumer-facing marketplace for the home-sharing economy, where people can find a roommate to live in their home.

A mobile payment provider for restaurants, like Square, but for restaurants in the US and Canada.

A decentralized exchange that allows users to trade in bitcoin without an intermediary.

A platform that helps small businesses buy and sell excess inventory. The startup’s founder says that they have over 15,000 businesses using the platform and over $1 million of inventory moving through the system.

A platform that helps SMBs share out financial, marketing, and HR responsibilities.

A startup for businesses that want to manage their customer relationships and transactions.

A platform meant to help companies in the wholesale apparel industry better manage their inventory.

A digital marketing platform for small businesses, said to process $42 million a year in transactions for 3,000 businesses.

A mobile-first application that brings “real-time” travel recommendations to the road. The startup says it routes travelers based on “where the traffic is going” and “where the traffic is not”, and can even suggest alternate routes, saving time and money.

A digital adviser that helps with finding a home to buy.

A “true” concierge service where homeowners and renters can get help with things like groceries and dry cleaning

A startup for finding and reserving gyms, as well as a digital membership card. The startup wants to be the world’s first digital gym, using an app to track and manage memberships.

A startup that is building a “social credit system” for the digital world, allowing people to rate each other based on “trustworthiness”.

A B2B tech and software company that helps businesses automate the adoption of new technology in the workplace.

A subscription-free, open-source messaging platform for teams. The startup’s founders say they want to transform how groups collaborate.

An online marketplace that connects Chinese consumers with imported fashion goods.

A startup that helps you visualize your credit score and quickly access information on your credit report and credit score.

Idea: A pharmaceutical company that offers financial and marketing help to early-stage startups and researchers

A way to track your spending with algorithms and AI.

This startup wants to build “a new form of healthcare,” specifically for elderly people in the US. The startup has already raised $14 million in funding.

Quickly rolls out new features and apps across all Facebook properties, including Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

An analytics tool for product managers to track user engagement with their products. The company wants to make it easy to track user behavior and design.

A company that aims to create a unified market for global enterprises to buy and sell global inventory. The startup is taking a basic model of eBay for sourcing global products and turning them into a full-service marketplace.

A tool for scheduling remote work sessions. The startup hopes to be a one-stop shop for remote work scheduling, helping companies and remote workers find dates and times that work for everyone.

A digital food safety application for importing food. It’s a tool for checking food safety once it’s on the plane, and an app to allow governments to track food in transit.

This is a tool that allows companies to create custom reports with a platform that rewards their workers with gift cards.

BookNow is a service for online ordering and payment for food, flowers, theater tickets, and more. The company claims it has sold over $10,000 worth of tickets in four months. They’re also getting some attention from investors.

A platform for developers to sell software on.

A startup that pulls news from the web and brings it to life. The startup wants to be the Swiss Army knife of news.

A tool to help companies hire and manage a distributed workforce in the age of on-demand services. In a world of on-demand services, companies are looking for tools that will allow them to manage the people who work for them. Jobbird’s founders have already turned down $500,000 in investment.

A hosting service for companies that want to use their own servers for infrastructure. The host can either set up their own servers and manage them, or hook into the infrastructure of a shared hosting provider.

A startup for organic, fair trade or locally-sourced coffee beans. The startup is targeting the $1 billion coffee market in the US, and has raised a total of $1.1 million in funding.

A platform that lets both lenders and borrowers take advantage of cryptocurrency.

A company that lets workers manage their expenses and save for retirement.

A product that provides a service that helps hotels and other organizations create, manage and deliver a single, centralized event and event registration platform, with a focus on the hospitality industry.

A solution for the $4 trillion global oil market where producers don’t have reliable inventories and retailers don’t have a clear picture of demand or low prices. Oil can be stored in underground tanks and is more valuable if it’s in the right place. Oil Tracker aims to connect all the different stakeholders in the oil market.

A startup that’s using artificial intelligence and blockchain to build a better way for homeowners to manage their homeowners insurance.

A startup that’s building a database of bikeways and trails for cities

A platform for carpooling driven by carpool apps like Lyft.

A platform that allows you to make a purchase with a single click of a button, using a variety of cryptocurrencies.

A company that helps determine if a loan is worth making. Fundera’s technology is based on smart contacts, which match up borrowers and lenders and run predictive analytics to determine if a loan is worth making.

Trying to make the smart home as easy as possible for consumers.

A decentralized exchange for crypto exchanges. The startup hopes to build a platform that is “as easy as Gmail”.

Only 1% of all workers in the US have their overtime legally included in their paychecks. This startup wants to be the alternative. They’re building a mobile app that tracks time and automatically computes overtime pay.

An investment platform for retail investors.

A tool for developers to build apps for smart devices. The startup offers a custom SDK to allow other developers to build apps for Android and iOS devices.

A unicorn that helps people get the right insurance at the right price. It’s a platform for insurance companies to use and has attracted four top-tier insurance companies to try it out.

This startup’s algorithm is designed to find and cancel fraudulent payments, automatically. It’s free for merchants to use, and they’re aiming to partner with processors and banks.

A company that makes systems for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions and identity theft.

A startup building a way to help employees take a break during the workday, so they can get a healthy lunch and get some fresh air, and still keep their work tasks moving forward.

Connecting the bike-sharing market in China to the local electric vehicle market. The Startup offers a low cost electric car battery that can be swapped into an electric bike.

A startup that helps doctors and patients find common ground, reducing the stress involved in insurance and billing questions.

This is a solution to help small businesses manage their tax and financial obligations. Their platform is built on Slack, helping you bill, collect, and send payments to your customers, which can be done through a simple, intuitive interface.

A crowd-funded project to bring the benefits of underfloor heating and cooling to the underdeveloped world. The startup’s founders came up with the concept for a client-focused project as a way to combine the technology with other humanitarian efforts.

A startup that aims to bring the benefits of digital health to people who need them. It hopes to use AI to give patients personalized advice on their treatment, based on their genetics and prior medical history.

A startup that aims to help keep track of all the activity happening in a company’s Slack.

The startup wants to use a combination of machine learning and data science to figure out a person's biological age based on a series of scans and measurements. The projections are meant to help people decide what to do with their retirement.

A startup that helps companies get energy-efficient lightbulbs into their warehouses. They’ve already sold over 1,000 LED bulbs in a few months.

This startup makes a credit card without annual fees or a credit limit. Customers can pay as much or as little as they want each month and never be charged interest or fees.

A B2B company that connects products to the people that sell them, allowing sellers to get discounts on their products by having producers sell them.

A facial recognition startup that makes it easy for consumers to snap photos of themselves and display them on a Facebook-like feed, allowing brands to analyze consumers’ shopping habits.

A startup that’s building an app that tracks a person’s sleep patterns and allows them to tell the app when they are tired and it can suggest activities they can do to make it better.

A startup that wants to help people with specific challenges, like people with epilepsy or those who want to run marathons. It’s is already has 4,500 users, and manages over $6 million in payments.

Traders Pte. Singapore wants to make it easier for small- and medium-sized enterprises to invest in cryptocurrency. The company launched in May, and has already signed up over 80 customers.

A real-time feedback tool for editors, allowing them to collaborate in real-time and see how edits affect the final video

A decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies that’s designed to be easier to use than current services.

A startup that helps people find affordable housing and makes money by charging rent (like airbnb does)

A company that helps companies with their email marketing. The startup sends targeted emails to the right people at the right time. For its first customer, it’s already generated more than $20,000 in revenue.

An upstart that wants to build a “smart” watch for heavy users of fitness trackers, claiming it can cut the time it takes to get to the gym from 30 minutes to 10.

A startup that wants to “be the go-to destination for students and professionals to discover, apply, and begin their careers in tech”.

A system that tracks how people spend and save their time, and uses that information to help people quantify and improve their financial well-being.

A digital marketplace for pre-made email newsletters. They say they’re building the email equivalent of Amazon’s marketplace.

A company that uses "social math" to help users make better financial decisions. They’re using machine learning to help users analyze the emotional motivation behind their spending habits, which they say is usually lost in other types of analysis.

A legal technology company that helps people manage the risk of litigation.

A startup that helps companies manage their online storefronts. The tool is meant to help small retailers, who currently have to manage their storefronts themselves. The startup is offering the tool as a monthly subscription with a free one-month trial.

A company developing a decentralized platform for the $2.2 trillion global real estate industry.

The founders of this startup are former execs from major media companies including Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. They’ve built a tool to help brands and agencies keep up with the news, and have launched in over 2,000 companies.

A startup that provides a service for people to make a video of themselves and then have it lip-synced in a different video (like in the video of Will Smith in the song “Summertime”)

A sustainability project that uses IoT sensors to monitor the environment. There are over 1 billion sensors in use today, but they’re not being used to their full potential.

A startup that helps people to easily invest in cryptocurrency, with a focus on the Indian market. It’s part of a larger trend of startups that want to bring cryptocurrencies to the masses.

A company that makes software that allows cities to track their public transit performance and generate data that helps other cities learn from other cities.

A portable diagnostic tool for children to run noninvasive tests. A startup that helps parents test their kids for common problems before they go to the doctor. The startup is working on a lower-cost version of its product that can be used at home.

The startup is building an artificial intelligence assistant for financial advisors.

A payment service for freelance work that will make it a lot easier for people to pay their taxes.

The startup is building a platform that allows users to share their favorite stories in a space that’s similar to Instagram but for the automotive industry.

The company launched an online tool to help local governments manage payroll and other administrative functions.

A “Call of Duty-style” shooter game that lets players earn real money playing the game.

This startup is building a drag-and-drop tool that allows users to create workflows from different platforms (like Slack or Trello) and then send them to one central place. The company is also building a white-label product for other companies to offer such workflows.

A platform to help consumers get the best return on their money in their financial accounts. The startup wants to take on a large part of the financial industry and make it more transparent to consumers.

This is a personal finance software that helps people save for retirement and future goals.

A social network for fashion industry buyers, which creates a central location where buyers can find and interact with designers for fashion shows and trade shows.

A B2B SaaS that provides data visualization and analytics for organizations, allowing them to quickly create and analyze reports and charts.

This startup is building a global network of local legal aid attorneys to help low income people in the US access legal aid, from free legal clinics to pro bono legal services.

A software tool that helps teach users how to speak different languages. The startup has a software suite and is also building devices for more immersion, like games and software with interactive bubble displays.

The startup’s headline feature is a website that allows you to create a four-digit passcode to share with others, instead of asking for their phone number. The company says they’re seeing traction with that feature, though they’ve also built an app that allows you to share with others your phone number, instead.

A mobile payments platform for ride sharing, carpooling, and taxi services.

A robot vacuum meant to help clean up messy houses without the need for a full-time cleaning service

A platform for fostering the exchange of ideas, ideas that are fed into the startup’s growing community of users.

A startup that is building a platform for sellers to help them manage their inventory, including inventory-management software, inventory-tracking software, and a mobile app.

This startup wants to use machine learning to identify the different uses of a product and then provide recommendations based on that data. For example, a smartphone app may recommend different camera apps to users based on their photos.

This startup is exploring a new way to send money to friends and family. Instead of using traditional bank transfer, they’re using a virtual currency they call Ven. It’s made of a built-in electronic payment system that’s easy to use, and they say they can send Ven without fees.

A platform for selling digitized books, with a focus on textbooks. The company currently has 1,000,000 digital books available for purchase.

A startup that sends out handy reminders to people on their phone, like when they’re running low on milk or toilet paper.

Health 2.0 is a digital health data platform that lets users upload and share raw health data from wearable devices like Fitbits, and add insights and comments.

The startup wants to democratize the hiring process for college graduates, using Facebook to find job candidates.

A software company that helps real estate agents coordinate inspections

A B2B company that helps companies manage vendors, suppliers, and customers, helping them communicate and collaborate more.

A news aggregator for the Indian community, with a focus on the LGBTQ community.

A company that aims to be the Uber of Airbnbs by connecting people with shared interest and letting them share their dwelling with others who want to stay or need a place to stay.

A new blockchain platform that allows companies to digitize and track intellectual property from idea to final product.

A platform for sharing books, music and movies.

A startup that wants to help people automate their infrastructure, powering their servers and computers with apps.

A business that makes it easier for companies to set up meetings with other companies. It’s first product is a Slackbot that helps employees schedule and manage these meetings.

A startup that helps people manage and record social interactions, and then presents it as a graph on a website.

A cloud-based solution for small businesses, helping them manage their orders and orders of their customers. It also offers a basic CRM product for SMBs.

A new take on Slack chat bots, which have been a big part of Slack’s growth. Instead of just repeating back what you type, it learns from you and adapts to your behavior.

A “one-stop shop for all-in-one accounting and tax management”, with a web app and mobile app for self-employed individuals and small businesses.

An HR-focused product that helps companies make hiring decisions.

This is a “B2B” resource marketplace for UK legal services. It allows you to find lawyers who can help you with legal needs.

A startup that works with publishers and aggregators to help them track and monetize their website traffic.

A worker-owned cooperative based in DC that provides resources to low-income residents of DC, including health care and job training.

A company that promises to make owning a house a more transparent and understandable process for consumers via their online platform known as RealtyShares. The company is a real estate marketplace that uses blockchain technology to help potential home buyers and sellers compare properties to find the best deals on the market.

Idea: A Chinese-English dictionary to help people learn languages

A startup from a company called Popcorn Time, which allows users to stream free movies and TV shows. It's now a part of Netflix.

This is a tool for businesses that want to reduce their carbon footprint. The company is focused on helping companies reduce their energy consumption, and plans to launch a product that does this by helping them track energy usage and then offset the usage with cash.

The startup is building a mobile app for business owners to track spending, analyze ROI, and automate financial decisions.

A startup that enables people to share their ideas with each other. The platform is in private beta and is looking for users to test it out and share feedback.

A way for businesses to get a more efficient, cloud-based accounting system. They have $1.8 million in funding.

This is a company that makes a "Budgeting for Beginners" app for parents, helping them get a handle on their bills and make a plan for the coming months.

A new startup that builds tools for freelancers in the creative and tech industries to help them get paid faster.

TeleServ is building a service that helps people track and improve the speed of their insurance claim. The company offers a set of tools that let people track claims, check claims status, and communicate with service reps.

A new app that lets users make real-time payments with digital currency. Payments are processed through the App with the user selecting the amount and then sending it to the merchant through the App.

Idea: A mobile app that delivers news from the NY Times in a personalized feed. The startup currently has 20,000 active users and is working with the Times on a pilot program to test potential monetization options.

A product that creates a way to connect small restaurants and bars with customers who want to eat and drink.

A tool to create visualizations of spatial data. The tool works by taking data from an API, and generates a graphical representation that shows the data in a new way.

A company that helps companies hire and train in-person apprentices. The company works with a network of companies to match up novices and experienced businesses, creating a system of apprenticeships that lets companies save money and still have their hands on the newest tech.

A platform for small businesses to rent or lease their storefronts, with a backend API that developers can use to build apps for managing rental inventory and payments.

A self-hosted online classroom for teachers, allowing them to bring their classes online. They’re looking for co-founders to help build out the platform.

A health insurance company for under-insured individuals. The startup is building an income-based health insurance plan to cover people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty line.

A dashboard for tracking Facebook ads to see what works, and what’s not working.

An online bank that focuses on serving lower and middle income customers.

In 2016, the startup began a closed beta for the OpenXO app, which allows users to connect their smart phone to their computer and browse through the phone's storage.

A startup looking to gain a foothold in business software for the real estate industry. The startup’s platform aims to help brokers, agents and developers collaborate on the back-end of their work.

A company that aims to make it easier to get royalty payments from music users, and to get paid for the use of music.

An open source project that offers an infrastructure for building bitcoin-based businesses.

A startup that’s working on a new way to connect startups with investors. The startup is building a marketplace where startups will be able to connect directly with VCs without having to go through a middleman.

A startup that builds a digital curriculum for kids on topics like computer science, programming, and robotics.

A provider of video and live streaming services for the enterprise, aiming to be a low-cost alternative to traditional video production.

A tool for the legal cannabis industry to help dispensaries track and manage their inventory. The startup is also developing a web application for dispensaries to manage patient data.

A tool to help founders and engineers create and distribute their personal blog posts.

This startup is looking to help people move into the gig economy, giving them access to services like unlimited cleaning and dog walking jobs.

Using computer vision and machine learning, this startup is building a tool that can automatically identify and deliver relevant customer service via text or email.

A startup for insurance policies that give consumers the freedom to choose their own doctors and hospitals

A startup that's helping companies manage and improve operations in order to operate more efficiently.

An artisanal facial scrub for your face, which promises to give you a "clean, clear, and healthy complexion."

A content-marketing tool for food bloggers. The startup takes a percentage of a blogger’s ad revenue.

A platform that aims to help small business owners connect with customers through social media, in the hopes of improving customer loyalty.

A way to find and hire the best contractors in San Francisco, the founders say.

A real-time, on-demand adtech platform for brands.

A way to leverage AI to perform custom formulas on data sources

A digital assistant with a focus on shopping.

A product that helps companies manage client data, including by integrating customer data with other customer data.

A company that wants to help people find and book cheap accommodations.

The startup is building an insurance product for travelers that helps them avoid the pitfalls of the expensive individual insurance market.

This company is building a digital service that helps businesses manage their data, giving them access to information on any device, anytime, anywhere.

A mobile app that lets you search for local entrepreneurs in your city to connect with and request help.

A messaging app for API providers that lets developers create a messaging interface for their apps without having to write a full chat bot.

A video editing platform that lets users edit 30-second videos that they’ve recorded privately with their phone.

A startup targeting medical professionals with a solution to a common problem: managing the vast amounts of clinical data patients generate.

An investment platform for retail investors.

A platform that helps recruiters find talent and verify that they’re a fit for companies.

An AI-powered tool that helps you slash your monthly energy bill by 20% in the first year

An automated customer service tool that helps businesses stay in touch with customers and manage issues.

A startup aiming to provide a universal language for software developers to build apps that are more human, more intuitive and easier to use than their competitors.

A global money transfer service designed for developing countries. The startup wants to make it easier for people to send money to family members back home, and for startups to test new products in markets that have a lot of pent up demand.

A startup that automates the process of producing invoices and tracking payments for small businesses, including accounting.

A platform for creating and managing events for artists. The idea is to bring all the different parts of the artist’s life under one roof.

A web-based platform that helps people manage their video production services and services providers in an online marketplace

A startup that helps teams manage their finances by helping them look at the big picture and prioritize their spending.

The idea is to offer a place where you can order custom-made clothing, and have someone else choose your colors, fabrics, and patterns.

A company that makes it easy for anyone to get online in the Philippines. The startup partners with telecoms to provide Internet in areas where it’s not a priority, and has also partnered with the government to provide WiFi in the streets and public areas.

The team behind @TOH, a restaurant recommendation app, is building a system to help restaurants track their food waste and find solutions to it.

A platform that brings together your accounts from all your favorite personal finance and investment apps.

A platform for making and selling jewelry and creative crafts

The company offers a marketplace where people can sell their services, like a handyman or a babysitter, to help others with their projects.

A decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies that’s designed to be easier to use than current services.

helps companies “explore the digital possibilities” of their products and services. Instead of helping businesses discover new markets, the startup wants to help them find new products to sell.

A startup that provides a service for helping people find their lost phone by having their phone ring, even if the phone is on silent

A startup building a peer-to-peer voice over IP (VoIP) app that lets you call anyone in the world on the same app, even over mobile. The founders said they’ve already signed up over 35,000 users, who can call each other for free.

A business service for freelance designers that allows them to access a library of high quality photos, fonts and templates for their clients.

This startup is building a social network for millennials, but it’s not a clone of Snapchat, it’s a more traditional social network.

WorkWeek is a robo-advisor for freelancers, offering asset management and tax services for small business owners.

A medical biller that gives users a way to compare healthcare costs across providers.

Raises money from investors and then gives that money to its employees as an incentive to buy company stock.

A crowdfunding platform for retired athletes, the startup wants to help people who want to give back to the community while providing innovative ways for athletes to get funding.

A tool designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses get their online through a series of video interviews.

A platform that lets parents of young children create a detailed daily schedule and itinerary of activities, with the ability to share it with the child's caretaker(s). The idea is to allow parents to be more hands-off and focus on the more important things in life: the kids and dinner.

The startup aims to be a peer-to-peer marketplace for student loans, to help students avoid high interest rates by borrowing from other students.

A startup that will “provide prescription drug adherence to your patients”.

A community of freelance product designers who can help launch a new product or company.

This is a direct-sales platform for retailers. The startup sells merchandise from retailers to their own customers.

The goal of this startup is to collect a network of people who can help students navigate the world of college admissions, from financial aid to college visits. The company wants to lower the amount of money students spend on college and make admissions decisions more transparent.

A company that makes whiskey-inspired food and drink, with the goal of bringing new flavors to the market.

A way to let people crowdsource their ideas (like Kickstarter) from the comfort of their home, where they can focus on the creative process without having to deal with logistics.

This is a service that helps restaurants and stores collaborate with their customers. The startup’s platform helps businesses use the customer data they already have to better serve them.

A cloud-based solution for businesses to manage their inventory, allowing them to track inventory in real-time.

This company is building a platform that enables sales reps in India to take orders via text message and then send them to back-end sales reps who are working on an individual transaction.

A company that helps manage and track a company’s data assets.

A new type of flower delivery company that aims to create a more personal experience for customers, with a focus on small businesses.

A mobile app that helps people create a personalized dashboard of their financial health. The app helps you make a plan, track progress, and stay on track. It has been downloaded more than 1 million times.

A digital payments platform for the restaurant industry, building tools to help restaurants manage cash flow and optimize sales.

The company’s goal is to be the first company to develop a safe, accessible, and effective antibiotic for infections associated with the Zika virus.

A digital shopping assistant for the holiday season. The startup offers deals on products across the top retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and more.

A startup that offers a platform for salespeople to schedule meetings with other salespeople

A startup that sells a “smart” dog collar that tracks dog’s location and activity, allowing dog owners to use the app to train their pooches and track their progress.

A Web-based service that helps retailers find the right people to sell their products to. It’s currently only available to retailers with a large network of stores.

The venture is looking to build out a platform for companies to use to monitor their employees’ working hours.

This startup’s goal is to “improve the lives of those living with opioid addiction”.

A company that wants to provide more transparency in the cryptocurrency markets. Its platform allows trading between buyers and sellers to be performed without any middlemen.

A company building a platform to make it easier to get paid for sharing things on the web. The startup aims to make it easier for users to take credit for their work, rather than paying fees to an intermediary.

A startup that provides personalized stock investment advice to individuals

A mobile-first productivity solution for both small and medium-sized businesses that wants to make the idea of using a computer to get work done more enjoyable.

A company that lets you automate your CRM and take advantage of Salesforce's tools by building a custom CRM solution that is integrated into Salesforce.

This startup is building a system that allows people to buy and sell tickets for events of any scale, with the ultimate goal of building an all-in-one ticketing platform for events.

A platform for selling pre-owned designer goods, creating a marketplace for buying and selling designer goods and selling pre-owned designer goods online.

A startup that wants to help people book and pay for hotel rooms. The startup is running a pilot with Y Combinator and Hilton.

A cloud-based telemedicine platform, which launched in May and claims to help doctors and patients bridge the gap that currently exists between in person and remote diagnosis and treatment.

This is a tool for developers that makes it easier to “deploy a single application to all of your connected devices”.

A platform that helps companies find new recruits. It’s a version of LinkedIn for job seekers, with a focus on the needs of local companies.

A SaaS company that helps customers optimize their returns and prevent fraud.

A startup that aims to bring the power of blockchain to microfinance

A tool that lets anyone create a site on the web.

This is a software company that is building a tool to monitor and track the health of a fleet of electric vehicles. It wants to reduce the cost of maintenance and replace the need for a mechanic to come to the owner’s home.

A startup that aims to help make it easier to build apps - using open source software - across the board.

Visionary Enterprise has received funding from Y Combinator since 2009

“The easiest way to get into the cryptocurrency ecosystem.”

A way to allow people to review and rate businesses.

A startup that connects people who have things to give away with those who need them. It’s a sister-focused startup to Giveaway and Charitybuzz, which helps people find others who are looking for things to give.

A startup for hosts to sell their spare rooms.

A startup for the buying and selling of used cars, appliances and other household goods.

A startup that lets people track their fitness and sleep data, letting them set goals and receive notifications.

A company that helps students pay for tuition with a prepaid debit card, available to any in the US. The startup has built a “pay to school” system that works with any college, university, or trade school. The startup doesn’t operate in Brazil.

A startup that aims to bring the benefits of digital health to people who need them. It hopes to use AI to give patients personalized advice on their treatment, based on their genetics and prior medical history.

Loft, a startup that collects and compiles a range of industry data about startups, has named YC as one of the top three organizations in the world that are "helping to produce the next generation of startups."

Localization software that helps companies hire workers who can speak, read, and write in multiple languages.

A startup using crowd funding to raise money for a home automation platform.

A way for users to contribute content in the form of photos, audio, video to the existing photo sharing app.

A is a startup that allows restaurants to track and monitor customers’ orders, and speed up deliveries.

A startup that helps you reduce the risk of taking out a loan to finance your business.

This startup wants to build a service that will help homeowners learn more about energy efficiency.

A company that wants to help schools with the upkeep of their buildings, by using an army of drones to clean up after them.

A company that builds digital tools for electricians, helping them do their job faster, more accurately, and with greater efficiency.

A platform that helps agencies and brands manage their digital campaigns and see stats about them.

A digital marketplace that connects sellers with buyers, allowing customers to shop a diverse range of goods from a single location by using a single payment method.

The restaurant chain is building a tool for managing and scheduling orders for delivery and takeout, as well as for dine-in ordering. It’s meant to automate the back-and-forth that has been the backbone of fast food ordering.

A startup that is building out a faster, cheaper, and more secure IoT platform that will be used by startups and large businesses alike.

A startup that helps companies manage their supply chain, helping them enter data on products, track shipments, and make sure they’re shipping on time.

A business intelligence suite that helps companies track product change data for products like software, hardware, or services.

A fitness activity tracker that’s aimed at seniors, developed in partnership with a major health insurance company.

A “local sales app” that helps brick-and-mortar retailers track sales in real time, and shares that data with other businesses.

A company that provides an AI-powered chatbot that helps customer service reps improve their customer interactions.

A $1-per-month app that helps users track their carbon footprint. Love.co is focused on helping users understand the environmental impacts of their daily habits, such as their food purchases, travel choices, and their energy usage.

A web application that would allow you to manage all of your ‘to-do’ items in one place.

A company that takes digital photos off your computer and prints them on demand

A platform for discovering and sharing events and locations, like concerts, festivals, and more.

A company that helps companies connect people who want to move to a new location with people who want to live there.

Realeyes is an AI that can read printed text and translate it into a form of sign language. The startup wants to use it to help the blind and hearing-impaired interact with TVs, smartphones, and other devices.

A tool to help nonprofits (and their supporters) analyze their data.

A startup for connecting freelance designers with clients. There are around 5 million professional designers in the US, and they’re frequently hired through agencies or by the hour. The startup is building a marketplace where designers can post their work, which clients can browse and hire.

A company that aims to create a unified market for global enterprises to buy and sell global inventory. The startup is taking a basic model of eBay for sourcing global products and turning them into a full-service marketplace.

A startup that lets you get the best price on a flight and allows you to book it on your phone. The startup says they have completed over 750,000 flights.

Ideas: A chatbot for Slack. A bot for Slack that helps you find the cheapest flight to a destination, among other things.

A startup that helps users show off their photos, videos and selfies to their friends.

A startup that lets companies track their employees’ movements in and out of the office using GPS.

A startup that wants to help people donate and manage their health data from different providers. It works with over a dozen health providers, from Blue Cross Blue Shield to Kaiser Permanente.

A startup that helps small businesses get more customers and better ways to do it through marketing. It’s a timesaver for small businesses and a good way for startups to get a foothold in the market.

"Discovery" magazine has included the Y Combinator companies in their list of the most innovative startups.

A way to organize and manage the various marketing campaigns that happen in a company’s life cycle, giving a bird’s eye view of the whole campaign. The startup says it’s currently serving over 100 clients.

A free SaaS app that allows people to create their own curated YouTube videos, with a focus on entertainment and creativity.

A contact management app for people who are just getting started in a new job or job search, or for anyone trying to manage a variety of different networks.

A company that provides companies with their own custom branded credit card that they can use to pay for goods and services in the US. It’s a way to cut out the middleman and save on additional fees.

A startup that helps poor people earn money through their smartphones. The startup wants to replace the urban poor with a new type of labor force that’s more productive and less susceptible to exploitation.

A company that wants to make a bank card that can be used across the world

An ecommerce platform for food that’s grown organically and locally with a focus on freshness and sustainability.

Intuition has created a connected digital device that can be used to help handicapped people with daily tasks.

A platform for crowd-sourcing ideas and designs, where users can create mockups of their idea and give it to others to vote on.

The company is aiming to bring the benefits of mobile marketing to nonprofits.

An online marketplace for after-market parts for business accounting software.

An HR solution for small businesses, connecting to different HR systems, providing the right employee information, and sharing all of company data.

The company is looking to help service providers know which jobs are the most important to perform, and which jobs can be outsourced, to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Its software, called

A company that’s building a mobile app that gives users a way to get feedback on their businesses.

The startup’s website says, “Lufthansa delivers to you.”

A startup that wants to create a platform for people to make money using their skills and talent, with the goal of creating a sustainable path for the next generation of entrepreneurs in the US.

KVRP-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 88.1 MHz in San Marcos, Texas which airs an Adult Contemporary format. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation.

LarxBit is an online platform for buying and selling used cars. It aims to become a global used car sharing service, like Zipcar or Car2Go. The platform monitors cars on public roads, then transfers them to its users.

A startup that sells laser-cut, customizable paper for planners, journals, planners, notebooks, and more

A platform that helps people build their own online stores. Customers that build their own online stores can then order their products through Amazon, eBay or any other platform.

A basic, free phone number that can be used for any company’s voicemail system, for call tracking and call analytics.

“Cultured” is building a platform for AI to help B2B companies collaborate by transcribing conversations.

A SaaS company that takes a percentage of a business’s sales that helps them improve conversion rates and other metrics.

The list is not all-inclusive, but we've tried to include a representative sample of the many companies, startups, and other organizations in the Philadelphia tech scene.

A platform that helps companies make more informed hiring decisions by tracking candidates’ social media activities.

A collaborative space for people to draw and talk about their ideas. It has been used for everything from brainstorming to solving engineering problems.

A platform that helps big agencies and brands to get the best media deals at scale. The company is now only looking to work with publishers, content creators and agencies. It would give publishers more visibility into advertising deals in order to improve their sales and marketing strategies.

Lending Club is looking to create an online community for home and condo owners to get access to financing to pay down a mortgage or refinance a home. The company’s loans are backed by the equity in the house, and rates for the loans are competitive.

Bot Camp is a platform for building bots for Slack or Facebook Messenger. The company, which launched in May, is backed by Abraaj Group, a global investment firm whose portfolio includes e-commerce startup Shopify.

The app will allow people to search and buy flights at any time of day, choosing from direct flights, travel agencies, or their preferred airlines.

A tool to help creatives manage their store from anywhere using an app or website.

A company that offers a DDoS service, allowing people to rent out their servers and charge for the service.

A startup that aims to make renting a car easier, faster, and cheaper. They focus on “value added services” that save money for the renter, like roadside assistance, satellite navigation, and car maintenance.

A partnership between the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to educate and promote conservation of marine life through the sale of marine fish.

This startup helps manufacturers of consumer goods track their products and efficiently manage customer returns.

A startup that will provide a new way for investors to keep track of their investments, to save time and money.

The startup holds a patent on a new type of printing process that uses a liquid to transfer the ink to the paper, eliminating many of the problems with traditional printing. The startup now wants to take that technology and apply it to the production of everything from paper to fabric.

Build an online platform that lets people play in their home and share their gameplay with their friends. The startup’s goal is to give the community an opportunity to play in the same game at the same time.

A company that lets you connect your company’s email and social media accounts, allowing employees to switch between email and social media accounts.

A platform to verify and manage the relationships between a person and their medical records. The startup uses AI to inventory a person’s medical records and keep them updated, creating a digital medical record that’s constantly up-to-date.

A platform for businesses to pitch their services to event organizers, while also making it easier to manage them.

App that helps autonomous vehicles make decisions about how to avoid hazards.

Automate your phone bill payments by having your phone bill automatically pay your phone bill.

Many startups on the list came from India, a country that has been a "fintech powerhouse" in recent years. The country has a large population of engineers and a growing consumer base, and the availability of capital and technology has led to a boom in the number of startups in the country.

Web app that will help you keep track of how much time you spend at the gym.

A “goliath of a credit company”, building a platform for managing, tracking, and distributing credit.

A startup that helps American companies sell to consumers in China and other Asian markets by taking over the process of getting a Chinese partner to buy their product.

The startup is trying to help startups in the US bridge the gap between when they want to hire their next employee and when they’re ready to start interviewing them.

A startup that wants to help cities build and deploy smart city solutions

Professional photo editing software for marketers.

"A platform for philanthropy," focused on making it easier for individuals to give to causes.

A software company that works with energy companies to plan, manage, and optimize their operations.

A startup that wants to help users build and grow a personal brand. The idea is to let users manage their own personal image, build their social capital, and participate in the global economy.

A startup that builds digital signboards that show up on Google Maps

A platform that makes it easier for companies to measure employee engagement. It analyzes text messages, chatroom messages, and social media posts to provide employers with insights into what employees prefer, what their priorities are, and what they’re working on.

A new service that lets people offer their unused airline miles to friends and family. Recipients can redeem the miles for airline tickets, and the sender gets a payout.

A startup that is developing AI-based tools for drug developers to test their drugs in a highly controlled lab setting. They can perform controlled trials on an even smaller scale, and

A tool for self-employed individuals to organize their taxes and financial accounts.

Ink is a platform for live events, with a focus on music. Users are able to create and manage their events within one platform and then broadcast these events to the world. Ink also offers a community feature, where users can share content with each other. The company raised $12.5 million, with 23,000 users in 50 countries, and is backed by Lightspeed and Greycroft.

An IoT service that helps hospitals track and monitor patient care across different departments.

A consumer-focused fintech product that combines BitGold, mobile payment, and cryptocurrency. It’s available on iOS and soon to be Android.

A health data startup that aims to make it easier for patients to research and manage their own health. The company’s built a mobile app to help with things like managing symptoms, tracking health conditions, and diagnosing illnesses.

This startup is building a device that can allow users to charge their devices from the sun.

The startup wants to make it easier for people to shop for eyeglasses without leaving their homes.

Idea: A music education startup that wants to provide teachers for music students in a Snapchat-like interface.

A set of design patterns and functions that helps teams organize their product.

A digital health platform that helps patients track their blood pressure, heart rate, and other measurements. The idea is that it’s less expensive, and easier to use than the existing devices, which are used by a small percentage of the market.

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to more than 200 companies that have received a total of more than $80 billion in venture capital funding as of Q3 2017.

A platform for organization and management of music and audio on a mobile device for the blind and visually impaired

A platform for community and social events, with an API for developers to build new tech-enabled features.

A web-based tool that allows users to compare the price of the same items from multiple retailers, at the same time.

A startup that provides a service where you can get a house cleaned for you and then get a certificate to get a discount at a local store

A startup that sells an automated work order system for the construction industry.

You want to find someone to build you a website, but “the whole process of finding someone to build a website is so cumbersome”. You want to do the hiring, but you’re not a developer and you’re not a designer, so you need a tool that gives you a few options for each step. That’s what the startup is building.

The best ideas are usually the simplest. And in the startup world, simplicity and finding a way to solve a problem is not easy to execute. We’ve selected the best ideas from the last two months to help you jumpstart your next idea. We’ve grouped them by market.

A company that helps organizations like law firms, nonprofits, and schools safely store, access, and share sensitive information online.

This startup is building an online marketplace for electric cars to sell and buy cars. The startup is currently in the pilot phase.

A “social commerce” app that helps you connect with people who make products similar to yours.

A company that says it is building an “ideal testing environment”, something that could replace the traditional lab environment.

A startup for buying and selling used office equipment, including desks, chairs, and computers.

A startup that aims to create a more transparent and secure supply chain for the fashion industry, using blockchain technology.

A financial services startup that provides credit and financial planning tools to small businesses, helping them manage their credit and reducing the risk of default.

A company that helps allow companies to share data internally, while still going through a third party. It’s a bit like a P2P version of a company that helps share information between employees internally, but without the need for a third party.

A tool for producers and directors to create marketing videos, with a focus on how to use a camera and lighting to tell a story.

A B2B SaaS business that helps companies with employee onboarding.

Provides a way to measure a person’s emotional well-being based on their interactions with products.

Starts with a wish list on Amazon, then sends the link to the gift recipient who can then pick out items. The company wants to build a personalized gift registry service on Amazon that’s easy for shoppers to use.

This startup is building a tool to help companies find and vet their next CEO through crowdsourcing.

Build a game that helps you visualize where you’re going on a road trip, using a case study of the most popular game in China.

A startup that aims to make it easier for companies to hire talent in India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem.

A “cloud” version of a production tool for video editing and animation.

VR/AR company that wants to make it easier for people to record and share videos in virtual reality and augmented reality. The company wants to build a VR and AR platform for users to record and share videos in VR and AR.

A platform to shop for and share used cars, trucks, and SUVs by searching for and comparing available inventory via a mobile app, and then making an offer on a car with a simple swipe.

A SaaS startup based in San Francisco, California. The company has been growing rapidly, claiming to have “signed up more than 20,000 people in just the past month”. Its app lets users schedule and pay for deliveries, including food and household items, with a delivery fee.

A robotic vacuum that is promised to clean your house more thoroughly than a human and at a cheaper rate.

The startup is building an app that helps hospital business owners manage their wait times and staffing. The goal is to cut down on wait times for patients.

Loose talk among friends and coworkers about work and life. You can learn a lot about people by what they’re discussing, and what they’re saying is more than just idle chatter. This startup wants to make that sort of content available to employers and HR departments.

A platform that allows users to sell their digital properties, like photos or slideshows, and then use the platform to manage digital assets.

A startup that sells a physical card that lets you pay for things with your phone.

A startup that helps customers find the best deals on flights, hotels, and car rentals across a wide range of travel sites.

An AI-powered platform that uses machine learning to help employees get the most out of their time.

This company is trying to make it easier for consumers to get the medical treatment they need from any doctor in a hospital. They’re starting in the US and Canada, with plans to expand to other countries.

A hardware company that builds its own Bluetooth devices with a focus on connecting medical devices to the internet. It recently raised $5 million in a Series A led by Family Offices.

A tool to help companies identify which of their customers are at risk for churn, allowing them to target people who might be worth their time.

A tool that helps companies monitor their employees’ smartphone usage, with the ability to monitor their location, time spent on their device, and screen time for each employee.

A company that helps people pack their own medical supplies in order to save money.

This is a tool for managing your social media presence. It’s a bit like social media management firm Social.com, but for social media.

An AI-powered platform for understanding and automatically classifying IoT data.

A new kind of digital currency for the healthcare industry. It’s aimed at allowing treatment plans to be set up for a patient, which can be adjusted at a later date based on their progress.

An online bank that focuses on serving lower and middle income customers.

A tool that makes it easy to work with photos taken with a smartphone

A startup that uses machine learning to give customers more control over how their personal data is used.

A self-serve tool for selling goods on eBay.

A browser-based ad network, designed for publishers who don’t have time to manage their own ads.

A startup focused on building and designing a digital twin of a physical product. The team is creating an AI that can scan a product and predict what changes it needs to make to reach its objectives, and then build that change into the product.

The startup aims to be the first platform for personal development that is scaleable in a way that allows for individuals to participate in the development of the platform.

A company that wants to make a bank card that can be used across the world

A collection of tools that helps advertisers track mobile users across various platforms, including mobile web, mobile apps, and social media. The startup helps people find the right audiences to be targeted on various platforms.

A company that offers an AI-based process for fraud prevention during the financial transactions process.

A mobile messaging app that lets you keep track of the people you owe money to, pay them, and track how much you owe them.

A startup that brings financial advisor services to the remote workforce, giving workers access to virtual advisors 24/7.

A startup prepping to launch in the fall of 2020 that aims to help identify the biggest expenses for a business before it signs a lease, helping with the process of choosing a location for your company. They heard about this need from top executives at the “billion dollar startups”.

A tool that helps you find and book carpools, helping you save money on gas and parking

A startup for people to type in their symptoms and receive advice on what to do next.

A startup that partners with local retailers to curate a handful of in-store activities for users to enjoy. These “experiences” are curated by the user’s location and can be anything from a free cup of coffee to a free library book.

Helps small businesses in emerging markets purchase services with their mobile money accounts.

An API for restaurants to help them use their ordering and delivery systems to deliver food directly to consumers.

A tool for automating email marketing for businesses. Its founders, having previously built a small email marketing SaaS for startups, were looking for a way to automate the process.

A tool for managing HR, payroll, and benefits for small businesses, pitched as a “HR-as-a-Service”.

A personalized learning platform for kids (ages 8-18) that uses gamification to teach subjects like science and math.

This startup lets you record and share interviews with others on the go.

A company that provides a service for businesses to be able to book private gigs with musicians, comedians, and artists.

A startup that helps brands and developers build mobile video games. Their platform easily integrates with existing games and offers a suite of tools for onboarding, publishing, and monetizing.

A Maryland startup that helps users create a digitalized, updated resume

A platform for cloud service providers to provide private cloud services to their customers, similar to the relationship between SaaS providers and their customers.

A tool to help doctors collaborate and share medical records across different systems and platforms.

OpenTable was ranked the #1 startup in the category of “Food and Beverage” in the Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest growing private companies in the US in 2018.

A new way to take advantage of machine learning and AI to help bankers use data to make more informed decisions, including whether to approve a loan or not. The startup’s free product is aimed at helping banks manage relationships with their customers.

A startup that helps you track and manage your expenses and also offer tips for lowering them.

A startup that helps customers identify, match and engage with local businesses.

A really good website that talks about how much you love cats, or any other pet, and the company wants to make it even better.

This startup helps companies digitize their product development processes. The company combines machine learning, AI, and blockchain to help product teams automate their processes.

A company that wants to help companies reduce their carbon footprint by using solar power for their offices. The startup has raised $20 million in funding.

A company that lets you rent a private jet and have a chef at your disposal for only $1,000 a month.

A social network for all of the robot hobbies out there including 3D printing, futurism, robotics, and more.

A startup that wants to help companies hire data scientists and focus on building out their AI teams.

(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)

A startup that wants to make it easy for anyone to publish content, whether it be text, photos, or video.

A startup that wants to build a marketplace for more environmentally-friendly products. With a business that was founded in the UK, they now have an office in the US.

A mobile application that helps companies create new products. The app helps companies create new products without any coding knowledge.

This is a shop that’s trying to bring the best of a physical bookstore to the digital world. The startup is currently working with a handful of brick-and-mortar stores and wants to use partnerships with retailers like Barnes and Noble’s and Amazon to bring their digital storefront to those physical stores.

This startup is building a platform to help people discover new stories and books they might like to read. The startup says it has 15,000 users who have opened the app 5,000 times.

A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.

A startup aiming to help finance professionals automate the process of checking a credit report, and prioritize the best deals for their clients.

A startup that helps women measure their menstrual cycle in a way that’s more conducive to women’s health.

A platform for people to connect with others who share their hobby/interests.

A well-known roboticist is building an open-source software platform to build robots.

A platform that allows users to manage their digital life in one location, allowing them to remotely access and manage all of their accounts.

A new kind of startup that’s looking to help you find a good roommate through the internet.

A self-service digital platform that allows companies to manage the sale of their products, inventory, and service agreements.

The startup is creating a “smart” wristband to track the number of calories a person is burning.

A startup for pre-owned tablets.

A platform for people to rent out their spare computing power and earn cryptocurrency.

A startup that connects home owners with homeowners insurance. The startup has raised $3 million to expand its product to 43 states.

A system that helps connect people across the world who are interested in doing freelance work, such as writing, editing, and design. The startup was founded in March and is looking to raise seed funding.

A new way for businesses to access a global pool of labor, with the startup saying its product is the first that works without a recruiting agency.

A crowdfunding platform for groceries, with a twist. The startup has built a technology that allows customers to scan the barcode of a product and order it for pickup at a grocery store, then pay via the platform.

A startup that lets you take a selfie and choose where you want it to appear – like Facebook’s ‘Camera Effects’ – in an Instagram-like interface that’s meant to show you how you look, not what you look like. The company has raised $2 million in seed funding.

Another tool for managing your Google Drive documents with Markdown.

A company that helps people figure out what kind of insurance they need, and then helps them find the best and cheapest way to get it. The startup says they’ve already gotten good feedback from people who have used their site.

A startup that’s focused on helping students, parents, and teachers access academic content easily

A platform that helps blend, align, and manage employees across different companies.

A startup that offers workers the ability to work remotely, get paid via their employer, get paid via an app, get paid via direct deposit, get paid via Venmo, get paid via PayPal, get paid via Square, get paid via an Amazon gift card, get paid via cryptocurrency, or get paid via a bank account.

A platform to make it easier for creative professionals to collaborate with clients. Both parties can share and comment on the project, and get feedback/input from others in the community.

An online service where you can store your credit cards, bank accounts, and other important documents in the cloud.

A startup that wants to help companies find the best talent in the US and India, and help them hire more effectively.

A tool that provides a series of smart defaults for a wiki, like a suggested table of contents.

A simple mobile money transfer service for the African market. The startup is based in Kenya and is trying to solve a problem that’s been around for decades, but hasn’t gotten a lot of attention.

A new kind of “smart wallet” that aims to make it easier for people to use crypto. Their goal is to build a better, more secure, and more convenient wallet.

As of November 2017, Tastebuds was a top-2 startup in the food & beverage category on AngelList. Tastebuds is building a way to share tasting notes, recommendations, and experiences in a social network for restaurants.

A platform that helps small businesses find pet-friendly locations and protect against data breaches.

A startup that makes it easy to pay for goods at brick-and-mortar stores via mobile phone

A platform to help owners of small agencies and freelancers get paid faster. Y Combinator-backed startup that’s already working with some of the biggest names in media.

A platform that consolidates all of your social media accounts into one place,

A marketing tool that lets you track your social media interactions, and see which customers are most engaged, most likely to buy, or engaged at all. The company has raised $2 million in funding.

A startup that lets real estate agents manage their finances and “build” their listings on a SaaS platform.

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

A product manager for a small team of product managers, to help them communicate and organize tasks. The app is meant to be a management tool for a team of around 10.

This startup is building a way for data scientists to get a more accurate sense of their customers by analyzing their purchases as a whole, rather than just their behavior as individuals.

“The Motley Fool” is a U.S. financial and investing blog and website, founded in 1996.

Want to track your dog This startup wants to let you track your dog's movements with a GPS system. They're currently building out the product, which they say requires no phone or network connection.

There’s a really big market for high-end home security systems. The startup is building a system that helps you get the best one for your needs, with a $5 monthly subscription.

This is an automation platform for the digital marketing industry. It helps companies automate the creation of content and its distribution.

A startup that wants to build a platform for physical goods merchants to sell online and receive payment in real time.

An AI-powered chatbot that can respond to questions about a person’s current location, and provide more detailed answers as you learn more about their habits.

A platform that allows for GPS-enabled payments where customers can pay for parking at over 3,000 locations in the U.S. via their smartphone.

Buyat is a service that lets people rent out their car for short periods to make money. The startup is looking to partner with dealerships and fleets.

This startup is building a simple service for sending and receiving payments that are cheaper and faster than the traditional option. The startup is focused on being a cheaper and faster alternative for peer-to-peer payments in developing markets.

This startup has created an out of office messaging app that lets you send all of your team members an email with a message and a URL to a video recording that you’ve made. The app is all about helping small teams manage their in-person workflow and avoid technology-driven distractions.

This startup is building a new way to interact with the world of digital assistants, allowing users to talk to them as if they were a person rather than an external app. The company has built a new AI that they say can answer questions while also listening and learning.

A startup that provides a platform for people to give each other feedback on their work It's like a wave pool for learning

A tool for web developers to build custom fonts, cutting down on the time it takes to get a font approved for use on a website.

Idea: Build a SaaS app on top of your eCommerce platform

An open source API for medical device data

A company that allows users to easily create and share photos that can be shared and downloaded across social media networks.

Growth hacking tool for app developers.

A web-based tool that helps companies bundle and manage their data, from backups to backups to backups. The founders say it saves companies from having to set up a full-blown data center.

A SaaS offering that helps you cut down on the number of times you dig out your phone to make sure you’ve logged out of your social media accounts. The system is meant to make the account management process faster, more reliable, and less work.

A startup that is putting organizational tools in the hands of people who are looking to start their own business.

A video rental app aimed at helping customers find and reserve movies from the comfort

A platform that allows users to earn rewards by sharing recommendations and reviews of things they like.

This startup is building a new way to allow mobile browsers to work in the background.

A new approach to software development that promises to help companies deploy code faster and cut costs.

A cloud-based approach to testing software

Helps members of a school community get access to free local yoga.

A tool for editing photos and videos in the cloud, meant both for professionals and for anyone looking to preserve their work.

A tool with a simple design that helps organizations and software developers build and manage their websites. It’s focused on small-to-medium businesses.

A platform that lets users find and buy used cars, and works as a place for sellers to post used cars for sale.

A startup that offers a way for people to book rides from their homes to the airport. UberX rides are typically cheaper than cab rides, but even after the startup’s recent troubles, it has a market share of over 30%.

A Y Combinator alum, who is working on helping companies manage their database systems.

A daily deals app for restaurants.

A software tool that helps companies track and analyze their social media marketing campaigns.

A startup that tracks your fitness, eating, and sleep habits and then sends you personalized emails, texts, and reminders.

A startup that helps people make sense of their personal finances, by giving them a dashboard view of their accounts and spending.

A startup that is building a platform to help musicians increase their social media following

A startup that’s building a platform for booking travel and hotel rooms. The company is aiming to compete with Expedia and Priceline.

Seed funding for a free online course on investing in Chinese stock markets and investing in Chinese businesses.

A personal finance management app that aims to help employees — especially those that work remotely — manage their personal finances.

This startup is building a marketplace for mobile developers to find developers and build apps.

A company that focuses on customer engagement for retailers and restaurants. It’s currently in beta for 10,000 users, and the founders say they’re looking to expand to markets outside the US.

A startup that could help you find a new car. It’s also a web portal that helps car dealers compete with Tesla and other car brands

A “smart” coffee maker that will automatically order coffee from various coffee shops and retailers, as well as make specific blends and brews.

Yieldify is building an app that lets restaurants track the sales of their dishes, so they can use that data to manage their business.

A chatbot for lawyers that helps them schedule meetings

This startup is building a last-mile delivery platform that puts the onus on the customer to order their own food.

An advertising platform for artists that uses blockchain technology to smooth out the payment process. ArtPro is building a DApp on Ethereum that will allow artists to sell their digital work directly to their fans.

This startup is building a “self-service” HR system that helps companies be more efficient and more effective.

A platform that lets creators sell content and also get paid from the sales of their content.

A startup that provides a service where people can have a “taste” of a product before they buy it

The company, which has raised over $50 million, aims to make a marketplace for classified ads. It has already raised over $13 million.

A startup that helps real estate agents research and collect leads for potential tenants.

A startup that helps companies hire employees with experience in the field they’re hiring for.

A platform to help people choose between different jobs, then find the one that’s the best fit for them.

A startup that specializes in cross-border payments. The startup has built a solution in partnership with the Spanish government that allows Spanish businesses to send money to individuals in the US. The company is also working on a platform to help small businesses in the US accept payments in euros.

Idea: A startup that helps retail businesses create personalized images and videos for their products. The company’s CEO says that the startup’s technology has already been used to create over 3,000 videos, and the startup has generated $50,000 in revenue so far.

A Chinese startup that provides accommodation for Laowai (foreigners) in China.

A navigational app that seamlessly integrates with an online payment system.

This startup makes software for a company that makes custom parts for cars. CNC Solutions creates parts for specific cars, like a wheel hub for an Audi R8. The startup claims that if a company has a client they can't make a part for, they'll be able to turn around an order in six hours.

A free, open-source and community-driven email client built on the Electron framework.

A startup that helps with internet in-app purchases and the creation of digital products in the Indian market.

A platform that takes a person’s social media data and combines it with their location data to identify how people regularly move around. The startup is selling to brands and agencies who want to track and understand how people use their products.

A company that wants to help companies and their employees work together after hours, whether that’s an early morning meeting or a weeknight hack.

A way for publishers to advertise a collection of content, not just one article. The startup has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.

A way of paying for services with cryptocurrency instead of fiat.

A startup that creates a directory of people who are trained to do repair work on a variety of things like plumbing, electrical wiring, and AC work

A platform that lets you book private booths in public spaces.

The startup, based in the Netherlands, has built a device that turns any Android smartphone into a camera. It promises to ease the process of sharing photos, while also allowing users to take photos that are harder to take with a traditional camera.

A platform to help you track the media you consume by linking it to your social media accounts.

A mobile-first, cloud-based system for managing patient records and care. They built on the backend of a similar system for doctors, and are now in a pilot with the Veterans Affairs Office of Patient Centered Care and Outcomes, and the Department of Defense to help improve the quality of patient care.

A tool that allows organizations to keep track of their data and employees, with a dash of gamification to keep them accountable.

A matching platform for freelancers and clients, where freelancers can post projects, let clients browse openings and apply to them.

Data visualization for video games, powered by the world’s largest video game database.

A startup that uses machine learning to figure out what kind of content should go where in the web’s ecosystem.

A streaming video platform for live sports events

An enterprise solution for managing the logistics and inventory of your supply chain.

A tool for helping to make sure your website is secure, with features like a blacklist of bad sites and features for checking a website’s SSL certificate.

An AI that predicts stock performance based on the news it hears.

A B2B platform for pharmaceutical manufacturers, letting them get products to market faster at lower cost.

The startup is looking to help people who are disabled take advantage of the online world to improve their lives, whether it’s a wheelchair-bound person who needs more information on how to use YouTube or a blind person who needs better search tools for the web.

A startup that helps companies use their database as part of their marketing with a service that allows companies to send internal mail with customer data via a marketing platform.

A billing service for B2B companies that’s designed to be simple, easy to use, and inexpensive.

A startup that curates user-generated content from many of the most popular social networks.

An education startup that teaches users how to interact with smart TVs in order to manage their Netflix, Amazon, and other videos.

A company that is building a platform for managing “smart” cities. The company wants to create a tool that helps cities manage resources like energy, parking, and transportation.

A shopping app that helps shoppers find sales and coupons in their area, using their phone’s GPS.

This startup is building a platform for companies to build and manage their own websites. They’re working with YC companies as well as enterprise clients.

Idea: A community directory for short-term housing aimed at tourists and newcomers to a city. The startup is planning to expand to other cities in the future.

A startup to help organizations create employee-friendly spaces.

A blockchain-based payments platform built on a protocol called Tango, designed to enable micropayments.

A startup that provides a service where people can have a personal assistant who is an expert at daily activities (laundry, cooking, cleaning)

A portal for government-issued IDs in the US that allows users to upload/upload their own photos/data/photos.

A platform meant to help businesses measure the ROI of their marketing efforts in real-time.

An online platform that gives users and companies tools to manage and convert their email marketing, and ultimately ROI on that email marketing.

This startup uses machine learning to identify and rank the candidates most likely to succeed at a company.

The company’s first product is a credit card reader that plugs into a mobile device. It’s meant to work with a smartphone’s wireless charging capabilities.

A product that helps employees keep track of their expenses and support their company instead of losing money to waste.

A software-as-a-service platform for managing large project management teams on multiple projects across different geographies

A company that makes a comprehensive, searchable database of the world’s universities.

Big Data is important, and getting bigger. Tachyon is working to make Big Data easier to understand so people can take advantage of it to make better decisions.

An important, often overlooked step in the process of creating great software is documentation. This startup is looking to build a workflow tool to help teams document their work.

A software company that helps ensure that buyers get what they need and have a good experience when buying a car.

A food delivery service that uses data on traffic flow, restaurant proximity, and market demand to make restaurant and delivery orders more efficient.

Video chat for students, with an emphasis on video quality and an option for students to get reimbursed for video-calling.

The idea is that you could use a built-in chip that connects to your phone to allow your phone to act like a credit card. The idea is still in the early stages.

A startup that helps companies pull reports from their company's distributed computer system and then distribute them to their employees.

A software that helps companies track and manage the use of the various places their employees work. Repsoft allows managers to see where their people are, and to assign tasks from anywhere.

A mobile chat platform that lets you video chat with your friends. It actually built a mobile chat platform the same way it built the messaging platform, with no outside funding. It’s now in private beta after launching in December.

Helping companies sell online courses.

Freight costs are high enough for this startup to make moving easier by letting you move any size item (such as a couch, or a full house) for $3.

Four companies that use AI to predict what might happen next in the stock market.

A “home sale app” to help people buy houses within the first 30 days of listing, with the hope of helping them close deals more quickly.

A company that helps brokerages and banks connect their technology with the Amazon Alexa

A startup that lets you buy furniture from Ikea without seeing Ikea

A network of “hackers” that help companies detect and prevent data breaches.

A live-streaming tool meant to be used for video interviews. The company is also building a subscription-based premium service that will allow users to conduct live-streamed interviews.

A B2B company that helps individuals buy and sell used cars and trucks.

This startup that makes a “virtual shared workspace”.

A startup that wants to make the process of app development faster and easier by providing the tools, materials, and process they use to build apps.

A machine learning platform for training recommendation algorithms and making them easier to use.

A tool to help people make a living using their talents. They have $2,000 in monthly revenue.

A startup that will allow you to automatically receive payment for your work via AI. The company has raised $1.2 million.

A startup that turns your phone into a virtual reality unit, letting you stream VR videos and games from your phone to your headset.

An online publishing tool for indie musicians, allowing them to easily create and distribute their music via the web.

A platform for outsourcing work to freelancers in the UK. The startup helps businesses and professionals find freelance workers for different jobs. The company is based in London, and has offices in Berlin and New York.

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

A new company from YC, this startup is building a platform to help “people in crisis” connect with people not in crisis.

A library of over 1,700 video lectures for developers on the entire set of AWS services.

This app for retailers to track and manage inventory. The startup says it has a suite of algorithms that can optimize inventory for any retailer.

A startup that helps companies save money by paying for products and services in bulk. The startup manages the purchase of products on behalf of its customers and then pays for them when they’re all shipped. The startup is based in the Bay Area, based on "Crowdfunding as a Service" model.

The company launched an online tool to help local governments manage payroll and other administrative functions.

A SaaS solution for companies to manage and prioritize their workflows.

A startup working on a technology platform that helps manage all of the workflows across an enterprise.

A B2B platform to keep track of product costs, with a recurring revenue model that covers processing fees for orders, as well as profit margin.

A social network for people interested in mechanical engineering, allowing people to find jobs, learn about new developments, and get connected with engineers and designers.

Software that helps people understand and calculate their personal risk of missing out on the next big thing.

A startup that uses an app to manage the construction project of building a house

A company that offers a collaboration tool for salespeople to share sales strategies, sales pipeline, and sales targets.

A startup that builds mobile apps for restaurant owners, including data and analytics, marketing and lead management.

The startup wants to create a personal assistant that can get data from your bank account and auto-fill your bills, statements, and other transactions.

A startup that’s working with the EPA to make sure companies are getting proper permits for toxic waste disposal.

A startup that’s built a tool for companies to learn about their customers in order to optimize their experience. It’s currently being used by a particular customer, and the company says it has data from around 50 other clients.

A platform that helps Filipino workers find employment overseas with a $1,000 bonus for every new employee.

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

A private messaging app for entrepreneurs in Latin America.

A company that allows you to customize Google Maps with your business’s logo.

A company that uses machine learning to create products that help senior citizens with activities of daily living, such as shopping, banking and making phone calls.

A web-based platform that makes it easier for content creators to manage their social media streams, with the goal of helping them better manage their brand.

A startup that helps people choose where to live based on what is happening in their life, not just on what they can afford

A startup that’s building a home-grown cryptocurrency which they hope will be more widely adopted than Bitcoin.

A software platform for retail companies to “find and engage customers in the moment”, with an emphasis on in-store experiences.

A startup that allows people to track their friends’ social lives and determine if they’re getting enough sleep.

A quality verification platform that tracks and verifies the quality of products. The company is focused on the $1.5 Trillion medical device market.

A restaurant search engine that uses both Yelp and Zagat.

A ride-hailing company that uses autonomous vehicles.

A startup that helps people to find a doctor that specializes in their condition (based on their symptoms)

A startup that helps companies replace traditional human customer service with a chat bot. The startup has been in beta since February.

A startup that offers a platform for salespeople to schedule meetings with other salespeople

An automation platform for recruitment technology products.

A platform that helps you create a “personal podcast” in which you interview a stranger about their life.

SaveUp is a one-stop shop for college savings plans in the US, Canada, and the UK. It works to save people money with a tool that automatically sends pre-tax contributions from employer to student's 529. The company has raised $1.5M in funding.

A brand new payment platform for small businesses that don’t want to give credit card companies a cut. Instead of taking a percentage, the payment is split up between the merchant and the customer.

A company that wants to connect your assets – from your home to your car – with the services you use at home, at work, and on the road.

The startup aims to make complicated environmental accounting and reporting for companies easier, with a platform that helps companies track their carbon footprint, water use, and other environmental data. It’s currently testing with a few companies in the energy and manufacturing verticals.

A platform that helps people find products and services that fit their needs, be it products for their home, furniture for their office, or services for their pets.

A startup that makes it easier for parents to get early childhood education. The company wants to provide parents access to paid and unpaid learning experiences for their children.

A startup that helps employees streamline their use of corporate IT resources.

A platform for recruiting external developers and designers, with a focus on turning work out quickly without the time and costs of traditional recruiting processes.

A startup that connects consumers, who want to buy organic produce, with local farms.

A company that creates digital prints from the images of people, who upload their own images and the company’s prints are then rendered by using a computer vision. The prints can be sold as prints, clothing, or art.

A company that’s built a software platform to translate a user’s text into a computer-readable language. It’s already in use by several Fortune 500 companies.

A platform to connect customers with companies in a two-sided marketplace.

A new way to manage and share information on software development. Envato is building a common development platform that allows teams to share and collaborate with ease.

A company that creates software to help companies analyze their business operations and get insights about how their business is performing.

A startup that sells a service to provide real estate agents for people who want to buy/sell a property without an agent

A startup that uses machine learning to provide personalized recommendations and content to customers.

A startup that helps doctors create their own patient portals, with patient data stored in a secure environment.

Mentioned in the "2017 YC Demo Day" video, where they discuss the concept of a "mobile printing program" for small businesses. They are now calling their service "Quick Print," and the company is no longer in YC.

A crowdfunding platform for healthcare startups. The company is pitching an app that helps prompt patients to schedule appointments and get lab results.

A company that’s building a “brain-computer interface” that is meant to help people with stroke and other cognitive conditions control their devices using their thoughts.

An AI that helps people review restaurants. The AI can be used for speed dating, by restaurants to review their guests’ faces, and for booking books at restaurants.

A startup that promises to help you know what your current income is and where it will be in the future. The startup uses an algorithm that tracks past income and predicts future income using a number of factors, including job history, location, and the current economy.

A way to merge your Facebook and LinkedIn friends. The startup is currently in a private beta.

A platform for digital advertising that makes it easier for brands to sell on Facebook and Instagram.

A startup that provides a platform for users to publish, organize, and share all kinds of files. The startup is aiming to use a mobile app to help rebuild a fragmented world of file sharing and content.

The B2B marketplace for property and other real estate services, with a focus on the UK.

A company that allows companies to have a single dashboard that shows where they stand in their sales funnel. ​

A venture-backed company that offers a suite of services for companies running sales operations in the US.

A company that wants to track the performance of fish farms. It’s a monitoring system that tracks temperature, water changes, and nutrients.

A B2B company in the middle of a three-year contract to acquire a VC-backed app in the healthcare market in the UK.

A company that delivers on-demand, customizable home services, like plumbing, cleaning and lawn care.

A new type of meal-kit delivery service that aims to save consumers money by offering discounts when they order in bulk. The startup already has a few thousand customers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A loyalty program platform for loyalty programs.

A company that provides a toolkit for self-storage facilities to manage their inventory. The startup was developed by former YC founders.

The company is a free software project that helps people maintain their health by giving them access to a large, searchable database of medical information. It was started around a decade ago as a personal health web site, but has since evolved into a global health information platform.

Acorn is a service that helps companies manage their data and privacy, and also allows them to take advantage of AI to extract more information.

A location-based recommendation platform that recommends restaurants and bars to users based on their location.

A smart card means to help improve the efficiency of the US transportation system for trucking, rail, and maritime transportation.

Software that helps startups manage their legal affairs. The startup offers a legal and compliance-focused platform that helps startups manage their legal affairs.

A startup working with startups to help them enter the market with their products.

A platform for people to sell their old belongings on Craigslist. The startup wants to take the pain out of selling your things while also guaranteeing that they’ll show up at your doorstep.

A platform for cinemas to share data on how well movies are selling, allowing owners to make better decisions on their investment in the business.

A startup that helps small businesses with insurance. They’re working on their first product in the US, called “Bundle”.

A tool for creating ads for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It allows you to create an ad from scratch and customize it.

A startup that builds a data analysis system for the US Department of Defense. The company's software helps the military keep track of weapons, ships, and personnel.

A platform designed to help people and companies save and invest together.

This company allows companies to build their own private-labeled credit cards.

A financial and investment platform that facilitates and provides insurance and retirement plans. The company says it wants to take the fees and costs out of these products. The company says it wants to take the fees and costs out of these products. The company wants to simplify the insurance and retirement plans experience for customers and consumers, and for companies to manage their employees’ plans.

A pain-free way to sign up for new credit cards. The startup wants to help people with bad credit have a credit card that’s reserved for emergencies.

A startup that wants to build a cloud storage service that’s actually useful. The company wants to build a storage system that’s useful for organizations, not just consumers.

A digital marketing platform for small businesses, pitched as a toolset to help companies reach their customers.

This is a marketplace for buyers and sellers of vintage clothing, with the goal of helping both sides find more efficient ways to do business. The startup is working with a brick and mortar store in Amsterdam.

A subscription app that allows users to set up a recurring payment to a third party. The startup is building out a recurring payments API to serve as a base for other startups that want to create recurring payments solutions.

Taps is a startup that helps you get the most out of your tap water. It monitors the water quality and even has a specialized filter that improves taste.

A startup that’s building a service that will help companies keep track of when they need to calculate payroll taxes for their employees and what’s changed since that time.

A hospitality company that provides standardized guest rooms in a hotel, either customized to the needs of a customer or a group of customers.

A blockchain-based, peer-to-peer marketplace for the sale of used goods.

This startup is developing the first FDA-approved small animal pain drug.

A platform that helps recruiters manage their talent pipeline and hire new employees

Women in the US are being paid less than men for the same work, but the Equal Pay Pledge aims to change that. The startup is building a tracking platform to show how much companies are paying their employees. Currently it has over 1,000 organizations signed up to report their numbers.

A company that offers personalized notifications for customers based on their shopping behavior. Customers can be notified before their favorite items go out of stock by email.

A startup that helps you pay for things with credit cards for merchants who may not have the traditional infrastructure.

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The startup is working on an AI chatbot that can work as a personal assistant. The startup wants to use the chatbot to power the customer support for a new startup.

This healthcare startup is building software to help doctors manage their patient care. It’s working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is using it to manage care for veterans.

A company that helps to build and maintain the database that banks use to make lending decisions.

A tool that optimizes the security of cloud applications.

An insurance company that helps consumers with pet insurance by tying the policy to the pet’s actual collar.

A platform that connects lenders with small businesses, helping them get financing. The startup currently has $1,000 in monthly revenue, after launching in November.

This startup makes a paid email system that helps companies avoid GDPR fines. The company’s founders say they’re working with over 100 large European e-commerce sites. It’s currently in private beta.

A startup that helps retailers use data to determine which products to stock in stores. It currently has 300 retailers on its platform and is going through a $22 million Series C round.

A startup that wants to make it easy for every person to have a personal assistant.

Startup focused on the issue of supply chain fraud, building tools for companies to scan supplier documents to make sure that the products they purchase are what they think they are.

A tool for social entrepreneurs, allowing them to pitch investors on their ideas.

A company that crowdsources ideas for new products for Nest, Google's smart home brand.

A mobile app that lets people track how much money they’ve saved through a daily savings plan.

A startup that lets people create VR content using their phones. The company has already raised $8.2 million to build three apps that use different VR hardware.

A startup that helps companies find investment opportunities in the public markets in developing countries.

A startup that provides a service where people can get a free haircut because they need a confidence boost

A startup that lets you make custom designs for e-commerce products, with automation and inventory management tools.

A consumer loan company that offers a “money management” tool that helps people develop a budget and track their spending.

A tool created by a group of architects to allow architects to share sketches and architectural ideas among themselves.

A standalone Chrome extension that helps people find the best local photo-sharing service, with a built-in map to help users discover new services.

An AI-driven (no more than 20 people) enterprise software company that is using “human intelligence” to predict and prevent customer churn.

A startup for tracking and managing the health of people with diabetes. The company is building a platform that uses AI to automatically detect changes in blood sugar and insulin levels.

A startup that’s building a platform that serves as a community for people seeking to buy and sell used goods.

A startup meant to help agencies hire writers more efficiently.

A recommendation engine that can help people find the best-of-breed products in a given category.

A way of recording and sharing observations on campus.

A personalized health and wellness platform, giving people a new way to learn about their own health and fix the issues that prevent them from achieving their goals.

A startup that builds security tools for the cloud. The startup aims to use threat intelligence from the NSA and other government organizations to create a platform that can help find and stop hacker attacks.

A startup that provides a service to help people with chronic illnesses track their health / share information with their doctors

A startup with a library of over 2,500 Indian-subsaharan African writers and translators, it aims to create a platform for them to reach a wider global audience.

A travel health insurance company for the U.S. market, which is trying to cover a profitable market with an under-insured customer base. It’s currently in the UK, and is looking to expand to the US.

A free, open-source platform for building and managing distributed applications. Uses a programming language called Akka.

A startup that allows you to get access to a private concierge while you’re in a public place. The app wants to make it easier for people to get private help when they need it.

A company that helps companies with digital marketing by providing software and data to help them better understand customer behavior.

A startup that sells products in India

A startup that provides work for people who live with chronic anxiety

BookNow is a service for online ordering and payment for food, flowers, theater tickets, and more. The company claims it has sold over $10,000 worth of tickets in four months. They’re also getting some attention from investors.

A platform that helps companies create and manage an employee group, with tools to find new hires, measure engagement, and reward engagement and performance.

A tool for real estate agents to manage their listings better. They aim to make the whole process faster and easier.

A startup that aims to replace on-demand laundry services with in-home washing and cleaning.

A startup that wants to “make the world a better place” by helping small farmers sell their crops for fair prices.

A mobile app that helps patients manage their own health data, like daily intake and exercise. The startup wants to replace the massive, complex health records for millions of people.

This startup helps retail stores avoid theft by monitoring in-store cameras for bad actors, and alerting store managers in real-time.

In May 2018, TechCrunch ranked the top 50 innovation in Indonesia.

A company that’s building a toolset for developing mobile skills. The company wants to use machine learning to make sure that every mobile skill is customized for the user.

A self-funded startup that’s looking to solve the problem of acquiring large amounts of data without having to pay a lot for it: they sell data as a service.

A news aggregation app for Twitter.

A video conferencing app that works across different devices, costs a few dollars per month, and allows you to talk to people on the other side of the world

A tool that lets users type and record a video on a smartphone.

A tool that helps insurance companies manage their claims. The startup is aiming to help insurers save money on manual processing and offer better customer service.

A startup that improves students’ math skills

The startup is building a way for consumers to check their credit scores on their phones, so they can see what if they were to refinance a mortgage, apply for a credit card, or shop for a new loan.

A company that offers a digital version of a physical notary public.

A startup that provides support for tech startups that want to build apps for the Apple Watch.

A company that creates a tool that connects people with businesses that need workers for short-term jobs.

A startup with a similar idea to Fancy, with stores that focus on seasonal goods.

A startup for the most part focused on software developers but also building a product for recruiters

A company that specializes in developing innovative products to help the visually-impaired. The company has developed a range of solutions to help blind users interact with the world around them.

This startup helps recruiters screen candidates by getting insights into their personality from a series of interview questions.

A company that is building a platform to connect people and products for e-commerce and B2B. It’s trying to build a trusted marketplace that connects buyers with sellers.

A tool for managing employee benefits, from health insurance to retirement savings.

A company that provides enterprise-level email security.

A startup that offers companies and employees a remote access to their company’s data from any device, as long as it's connected to the internet.

A startup that helps non-profits and social enterprises improve their impact by giving them insights into how people use their products and services.

A platform that helps farmers sell excess agricultural produce, through an AI-enabled marketplace.

The app allows people to pay off their student loans with a 25% monthly discount, which they say can be used for a wide range of things.

A company that provides a way for Uber drivers to earn money when they’re not on the road by letting them take on the roles of a chauffeur.

A startup that helps doctors, patients, and patients’ families manage chronic conditions like diabetes, blood pressure, and asthma. It has significant traction in the US and UK.

This startup is building a platform to help renters manage their finances and manage their utilities. The company’s founders say they want to build a tool that’s cheaper and faster than a traditional bank account and are seeking seed funding.

A startup that is building spoken translations of text from languages using machine learning and a live audience.

This startup is building a global network of sports stadiums. It’s first project is in Brazil, where it is partnering with an insurance company to run a stadium that hosts games for the local soccer league. The startup is also working with a real estate developer to build a sports stadium in China.

Rethinking the way we build and manage software is the goal of BuildZoom. The startup allows users to compare home improvements from a variety of vendors and service providers from the comfort of one website. It's an online marketplace that allows consumers to shop for home improvement projects from the convenience of a desktop computer or mobile phone. BuildZoom makes it easy to find the right contractor, and provides a level of transparency that other home improvement websites do not.

This is an app that helps people plan trips based on similar stats to Yelp.

A startup for students to sell their books and textbooks. Students can also buy and sell textbooks for a fixed price.

A startup that combines the forms of a dating app, matchmakers, and a freelance marketplace. Like others in the space, Zoosk wants to make it easier for people to find jobs, but unlike others it’s only for women.

This company helps business owners and marketers create monthly digital marketing campaigns. They charge around $1,500 per month.

An API that helps developers make better use of data from the likes of Google Analytics, Mixpanel, and Firebase.

A tool that helps companies build and test landing pages, which currently have over 70% of their traffic coming from mobile.

An AI assistant that can help hoteliers, restaurants and other hospitality businesses find the best nearby restaurants and bars.

A startup that helps you better manage your relationships on social networks.

A sorting system for online shops, similar to Amazon’s Wish list.

A marketing platform aimed at online influencers, like bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters, that provides analytics, automated email marketing, and more.

A web-based platform that allows users to rent out their space. It’s meant to help alleviate rental costs for tenants, and allows them to earn extra money.

One of the key differences between this year’s class and last year’s was the level of public interest in highlighting the work of the companies that were accepted. This year that level was very high, with over 10,000 people visiting the project page. That interest was a major factor in the growth of the class.

An ad hoc tool for hiring freelance designers, using the startup’s proprietary algorithm to make sure you’re not overpaying.

A startup that helps people make social media accounts that do not violate Instagram’s policies with a tool to create a fake IG profile.

A real-time chat room for doctors to discuss patient cases, including patient histories and test results.

A company that’s building a library catalog for libraries. It’s a “meta-library” that’s meant to help libraries keep track of collections and allow users to find books by library, author, or keyword. It’s a local library solution, though it can also be integrated with Amazon and other online libraries.

The startup’s founders have held senior roles at Google and LinkedIn

A data visualization tool that helps companies and brands understand social media conversations around them.

Cybersecurity startup. A hacker could turn off the security controls on a machine, causing it to create a backdoor for someone else to use.

A real estate agent with a smartphone app that helps home-owners connect with contractors.

A platform for communication, collaboration and information sharing among small and medium-sized businesses.

A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.

A platform for helping people invest in their retirement portfolios

Arist is a cloud-based project management and accounting tool that helps small teams manage projects and budget. Arist is a free plan with paid options that offers more features. Arist is available on the App Store, Google Play, and the Arist website.

A platform for people looking to sell their old bikes, scooters, and bikes. The platform also offers a service that will teach you how to fix them so you can resell them.

A crowdsource marketing platform for e-commerce companies. The startup wants to unify the process of building and managing online marketing activities by combining the efforts of multiple people into a single set of data.

The company operates in a similar fashion to Uber, but instead of driving people around, it takes shoppers to retailers. Shoppers use the app to locate stores and their location, then use the app to walk into shops and purchase items.

SaaS startup that helps payers and providers make sense of patient data, offering tools to manage, visualize and monetize data from different systems.

A company that helps companies like Unilever, Nestle, and PepsiCo in Brazil track their shipments to make their supply chains more efficient.

A real estate company in Brazil that gives homebuyers financing and access to other services to facilitate the purchase of homes.

A tool for creating interactive data visualizations for marketing, research, training, and other purposes.

Renewing a lost driver’s license online. The startup, which was founded in 2018, currently has around 15 employees.

A tool that uses a web browser to visualize financial markets, with the goal of making trading more transparent.

The social network for stylists offering them a place to collaborate, share ideas, and build relationships. It’s a network for stylists, but it’s not like a LinkedIn. It’s more like a Facebook for stylists.

A startup that pulls news from the web and brings it to life. The startup wants to be the Swiss Army knife of news.

A startup that creates a dating app focused on building meaningful relationships

A way for people to live stream video to their followers, which can be edited and reposted.

A patent-pending tool that helps enterprise businesses get their legal documents in order faster. It comes with a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that automatically creates and fills out legal forms as you draft them, based on your input.

A startup that helps mobile developers with code, as well as providing a debugging tool. One idea that is pitching is that it can create a code autocomplete tool for developers.

A company that’s building a toolset to help companies with medical training, which could reduce the amount of time it takes to train people with medical backgrounds.

A company that helps retailers determine which brands are their best customers, and helps them make more sales of those products by offering discounts.

Zapier wants to help small businesses automate physical tasks using web tools. It’s currently in private beta with a few thousand users, and the startup is seeking to raise funding to grow it.

A company that uses AI to automatically generate and improve content across a company's digital properties.

One of the co-founders of Tailwind is a former employee of Uber, and their product is a platform that helps companies optimize their supply chain with AI.

An artificial intelligence-based solution that helps doctors schedule patients, prioritize cases, and communicate with other providers. It can also pull patient data from other providers, like lab results or insurance status.

A platform for insurance companies to create digital agents that allow users to book appointments, manage their policies, and access digital claim forms.

This startup’s platform allows people to turn their home into a shared office space.

A payment system for small businesses in the Philippines, with a focus on remittance, based on a user’s location. The startup wants to target merchants with a high volume of transactions but low capacity, such as small shops and restaurants.

A platform for outsourcing work to freelancers in the UK. The startup helps businesses and professionals find freelance workers for different jobs. The company is based in London, and has offices in Berlin and New York.

A new web-based interface that allows users to track their daily sales, customer and employee activity and analyze them in real-time.

A startup that helps people set up mailboxes in their homes. It’s currently in beta and is building an API for customers to build their own services using the company’s design.

A machine learning tool for recommending books based on a user’s reading history.

A platform for selling digitized books, with a focus on textbooks. The company currently has 1,000,000 digital books available for purchase.

A startup that does “the Netflix model” for language learning

A web-based platform that allows users to create and manage custom-made credit cards to make online payments. They also offer an API for customers to build their own solutions on top of.

A social media platform that’s basically like Facebook, but focused on developing a community of artists who work together to create art and share it with their friends.

A startup that helps customers track their package. The startup’s goal is to build an app that lets people track the status of their packages, so they know when it’s about to be delivered, shipped, or lost.

There are a lot of really great ideas out there, and we’re only just getting started.

A platform for engineers to build products, with a lean startup that changes the way engineers engage with customers.

A platform for managing and paying taxes on personal loans in the US and globally.

A peer-to-peer lending company that focuses on college students. The company says it’s in talks with a few large consumer finance companies and would like to see itself included in student loan refinancing programs. They’re based in Delaware.

A startup that helps companies build their own proprietary products to be used with their existing website.

A startup with a proprietary AI platform that helps applications with a heavy computational load run faster.

The startup is looking to disrupt the $2.8 trillion consumer credit industry, which it says is ripe for disruption by building a better credit scoring system for micro and small businesses using data from a company called Credit Karma.

A startup to help people who have been injured by bad doctors

A startup for customers to get access to customized marketing products and services. The company is making it easier for marketers to build community-based campaigns.

A company that has created an online platform that automates the process of converting resumes into job offers.

A startup that helps organizations connect with their alumni and donors.

A tool for managing your business with a built-in calendar, task manager, and messaging app.

This company is building a web-based system that will help users find a rental car via a smart phone or a car sharing service.

A micro-investment product for small investors. The startup has created a platform that allows you to invest in a portfolio of loans rather than a single loan.

An online bank for consumers with low to moderate incomes.

A platform that helps digital nomads find their next destination to live and work online.

A tool to help lawyers review, draft, and manage legal documents.

Powerful, flexible, and affordable medical devices for implantable therapy. The company aims to build devices that are modular, flexible, and affordable.

An outlet for people to find and share their favorite movies from the past. Think of it as a place to reminisce and connect with movies you love.

A team of former Facebook engineers who left the company to build a tool to allow businesses to better manage their paid digital advertising.

A product that allows users to take a photo of a product and upload it to a database of other photos, which other users can then rate on a scale of 1-5.

An online subscription service for local newspapers and magazines.

A startup that wants to help you build your own social network, but for animals. The startup wants to draw in fans and breeders of different pets like dogs and cats and help them stay in touch with each other.

A startup that combines the forms of a dating app, matchmakers, and a freelance marketplace. Like others in the space, Zoosk wants to make it easier for people to find jobs, but unlike others it’s only for women.

A startup that helps the homeless and mentally ill get connected to services.

A startup that wants to help people manage their debt, using a predictive system that helps them know whether they’re spending too much or too little.

A startup that’s building a global video platform that helps brands partner with creators to tell stories through video.

A startup that helps employees manage their medical benefits, offering both the ability to manage the entire process at their fingertips and an automated process that could save employers up to 70% of the cost of doing it themselves.

A startup that helps students get their transcripts online for free.

A company that helps businesses learn about and engage with their local customers in a way that doesn’t require a separate app.

A tool for HR and payroll managers that makes it easier to manage employee time and track expenses.

A startup that wants to help employees better communicate with their coworkers. The company provides a chat-like platform for employees to communicate with each other.

A company that is working with the Etsy API to help Etsy merchants build more complete mobile experiences for their fans

A platform for data science and machine learning that’s meant to be accessible for non-technical users.

A startup that connects users with people who are willing to buy their used items in the US. The startup will connect you with buyers in your area and help facilitate payments. It launched in San Francisco in July 2015.

A startup that would help people in the US learn how to code online for $10/hour

A web-based food ordering and delivery platform, featuring mobile ordering, delivery, and a mobile-optimized site.

A company that’s building a platform to help companies with HR compliance, making it easier to track time, hire and terminate employees, and more.

This is a tool for managing your social media presence. It’s a bit like social media management firm Social.com, but for social media.

This company is building a way to track the progress of a call for services and streamline communications between the customer, service provider, and the customer’s care team.

A hosting company that offers affordable hosting

Idea: A digital identity platform that allows people to prove who they are to anyone with a linked mobile phone number The startup claims they can onboard a new user within minutes

A project management tool for people with small teams, meant to make it easier to track tasks and track progress.

A company that provides a way to certify that a driver is the actual driver of a car and not a fleet driver. This can help reduce insurance fraud and provide a safer ride.

A tool for manufacturers and retailers to track shipments and inventory from one end to the other.

A personal assistant that can get an email, read it, and then respond with a text message. The service is meant as a companion to aid in the act of driving, for instance.

A platform for creating and selling e-books, but targeted at high school students

A New York-based startup that’s building a tool for health insurance companies to streamline claims processing and increase speed for submitting claims.

The idea is that you could use a built-in chip that connects to your phone to allow your phone to act like a credit card. The idea is still in the early stages.

A startup that wants to be the most “reliable” and “secure” platform for the internet of things. BitClave’s platform is built on blockchain, and wants to be a way to trust the internet of things.

A digital health platform for people with diabetes that helps them keep track of their health and manage their diabetes.

A startup that’s building a decentralized system for digital advertising, which they say is able to reach nearly a billion users without paying any fees.

A news aggregator for the legal industry, using a combination of legal news, blogs, and a Wikipedia-like reference library to stay on top of legal news.

A tool that helps people visualize and visualize their data.

The startup, which was founded in March, is building a platform that helps users translate their spoken language into text.

A company that enforces anti-spam policies and sends notifications to email accounts that have sent messages that’ve been flagged by the platform.

A tool for tracking and managing moves and moves to happen in the future

This company, based in San Francisco and Beijing, helps small businesses buy and sell online.

A software platform that helps connect retailers with ecommerce platform designers and developers.

Polldaddy is an app that allows users to make polls, collect data, and share the results. It works with most social media and blogging platforms.

This startup wants to be the Netflix of health insurance. It will choose from a variety of health insurance plans from carriers, and then offer a recommendation that’s customized for you.

A tool to help intrapreneurs intall and manage their enterprise-wide deployments of serverless apps built on AWS Lambda. The startup wants to help users track and manage deployments.

A way to streamline the process of getting a loan for a startup (or other company in need of financing). The company provides a marketplace for financing and a loan application, with providers ranging from big banks to crowdlending sites. They’re currently in the process of raising Series A funding.

A company that helps companies make sense of data generated by their sales leads, stock trades, and invoices.

A venture-backed, data-driven performance marketing company that helps companies find out what people are talking about, what they’re talking to each other about, and what people are saying about their brands.

An effort to make the internet a more open and inclusive place for people of color, especially women. Sizabot is a virtual assistant, and the company built Sizabot to work with a wide range of languages to help people of color find better deals on services via chat.

A platform for sharing and tracking new music, launched in January 2019 and just announced a $10 million Series C round. The company wants to be the Spotify for new music.

With a name inspired by the movie "Gone Girl" and a logo that looks like the character's signature, this startup wants to be the "Netflix" of dating. It wants to take the messiness out of creating a profile, make the process faster, and make it easier to meet people in real life.

A platform for creating video tutorials for developers, using a more visual language that’s easier for beginners to pick up on.

A startup that helps businesses manage their employees’ time and attendance, helping them cut down on administrative costs and employee theft. This is a startup that helps businesses manage their employees’ time and attendance, helping them cut down on administrative costs and employee theft. This is a startup that helps businesses manage their employees’ time and attendance, helping them cut down on administrative costs and employee theft.

A tool for managing the mass of different passwords and security questions that people have to remember, and letting users keep passwords securely in a single, secure place.

A platform for restaurants (and other small businesses) to manage their inventory and bookings, offering a full suite of business management tools.

A platform for managing hardware and software settings, and making it easier to manage settings using a simple interface.

IFTTT, that connects the Internet of Things to your other applications and services. The startup is trying to build a “connected” kitchen in India that can monitor how clean the kitchen is, how many times the door has opened, and how much food is left in the fridge.

A startup to help clients move their data to the cloud. The idea is to create a platform that helps clients with the process of moving their data to the cloud.

A company that tracks your phone’s location in real-time so you can get notifications if you are getting close to dangerous areas.

A company that helps users convert their encrypted messages into text messages and emails.

A web-based platform for athletes to track their performance and get feedback from coaches.

A startup building a set of tools for the legal marijuana industry in the US. The startup aims to automate the process of banking and financing marijuana, while also making it easier for legal marijuana businesses to pay their monthly bills.

A platform for short-term rentals through a combination of posting, ratings, and reviews.

This startup is building a global network of sports stadiums. It’s first project is in Brazil, where it is partnering with an insurance company to run a stadium that hosts games for the local soccer league. The startup is also working with a real estate developer to build a sports stadium in China.

A company that helps online businesses build their own email marketing tool, offering a free suite of tools, including a software-as-a-service offering.

The startup’s website says, “Lufthansa delivers to you.”

A digital wallet for micro-businesses that allows them to accept payments online and get payment cards in the mail. It provides a merchant account and payment card.

A startup that wants to build a “digital concierge” for customers in the Philippines, providing travel advice, hotel bookings, and other services.

This startup is building a tool for project management, allowing clients to track the progress of their projects and see the costs for the project.

A cloud service that can help manage the free software licenses, license numbers, and authorizations of software you’ve downloaded.

A cloud-based tool that lets companies — be they public or private — manage their security incident response procedures. 6 pilots with 8 enterprise clients.

A blockchain-based system for doing business in China — including a way to do digital currency conversions.

A platform that enables users to buy and sell their unused iPhone parts.

A tool for investors to track down private funding for their companies.

A startup that builds and distributes modular, affordable drones for everyone.

A startup that lets you track your steps, sit counts, and other metrics in an effort to improve your fitness and help motivate you to exercise. The founders met while working at a physical therapy clinic.

A tool to help people get around parking on campus, and to help them find parking as easily as they can book a hotel room.

Data visualization for video games, powered by the world’s largest video game database.

A startup that provides an online course on how to build an online business

A product to help people with complex mental illnesses to increase their energy and better their daily lives. The startup is currently working on a pilot with the UK’s NHS.

A startup that wants to use natural language processing to make it easier to integrate chatbots into your business.

A tool that helps people find specific flights, using data from travel agent websites. It’s a fairly simple concept but it will be interesting to see how they implement it as they try to become the Yelp for flights.

A chatbot that helps customers troubleshoot their phone bill with live chat support.

A startup that helps companies manage their reputation for reputation management companies.

The summer school is for students interested in learning programming and fundamental knowledge in computer science, with the intent of helping them be successful in college.

A machine learning-based system that can predict the viability of a potential investment in minutes, rather than the weeks it takes traditional gatekeepers.

A startup that helps users buy tickets for bus, train, or plane rides, and has partnered with over 400 different transit agencies in the US. The service also has a loyalty program, allowing riders to earn points and then spend them on future tickets.

A software platform that will help retailers manage their inventory by taking data from back-of-house systems and predictive analytics.

In 2017, the U.S. Postal Service lost $65 billion, according to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General. The USPS lost $1.8 billion in FY 2016, and $2.8 billion in FY 2015. That is a drop of $3.4 billion from the $1.9 billion that they lost in FY 2014.

A startup that wants to use blockchain to ensure that doctors and patients can be sure that the products they buy, from vitamins to birth control, are the real thing.

A platform that helps customers pay for services from companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash through a single checkout page.

A tool that makes it easier for employers to administer automated payroll.

A platform that helps companies search for product concepts by leveraging their e-commerce data.

A company building a service to help Chinese tourists find the right place to go on vacation.

Building a real-time payments platform for retail merchants.

This startup is building a platform for marketers that allows companies to build custom ad campaigns for their clients.

A way for teachers to teach their classes online. Teachers pay $10 per online class, and it’s free for students.

A developer of software that teaches programmers how to be better at data visualization, developing and releasing new courses in the field.

A tool to help data scientists find research data sets with the keywords that they’re looking for, allowing them to discover relevant, relevant, relevant data sets.

A platform for real estate agents to make money on their social influence

A company that builds software to measure and predict the performance of brands

A tool for organizing and sharing notes, charts and graphs

A way for companies to store and sell their data. The company was founded with the idea of “solving the data supply chain”, and is building a platform that helps companies sell and collect their data.

Teams on a team. A Slack app built for small teams that wants to provide a more “human” experience than Slack.

A company that helps employers and employees find out what the best health insurance plan is in the country they live in. The company and app are backed by NEA, a non-profit that helps people buy health insurance.

A platform for artists, musicians, and others to make money on YouTube without relying on ads.

A software company that helps a range of businesses, from ad agencies to remote workers, to collaborate over video.

A new type of hardware, the “fiducial marker,” which is meant to replace the fiducials in your product data, making it more accurate and useful.

A software company that helps you keep track of all your digital devices, including their location.

This is a startup that wants to use the Internet of Things to create a more intimate relationship between a person and their home.

Idea: The team is building a web app that allows people to buy a single-letter domain name for $10. It’s a two-sided marketplace, with the buyer and the seller both paying a 10% fee.

This startup is building a web-based platform for companies to create and implement workplace policies. It’s already working with Amazon, Starbucks, and others.

A startup that automatically creates and saves content from your phone's camera and gallery to your Dropbox account and automatically syncs to your computer. The app is free and available for both iOS and Android.

The startup is trying to build a kind of big data database that can be used by the financial services industry to make better business and investment decisions.

The smart contract-based system will give customers their monthly phone bill, as well as their statement of account and the option to pay online.

A software-as-a-service for healthcare providers, mostly for Medicaid. They claim they can save providers money, with the goal of reducing Medicaid provider fraud.

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

This company is working to build a platform that is able to automate the process of scheduling and planning events.

A way for companies to make sure their employees aren’t being untruthful in their reviews

A partnership between the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to educate and promote conservation of marine life through the sale of marine fish.

This startup is building a “software-as-a-service” platform for enterprise customers that helps them create employee access and review policies.

A company that provides the top digital marketing agency in the world with a digital presence outside of their clients’ websites.

A community of bot developers who want to make new bots that can help manage tedious and repetitive tasks.

A software company that uses machine learning to manage and handle re-ordering and inventory for online stores.

A platform that helps businesses manage their inventory across the entire supply chain, from the moment they receive raw materials to when they’re ready to be shipped out. It aims to be the first company to simplify the supply chain so companies can stop using legacy systems and focus on what they do best.

The startup helps employees judge their own performance and find out what they can improve.

Leading-edge technology company that offers software and services to help Internet companies manage their content, protecting them from copyright infringement and piracy.

A new way to communicate in foreign languages, with a built-in translator. The product, called Translator, is being pitched as an easy way to communicate with people from other countries, offering a voice and text translation service.

This is a platform for managing and deploying code, with a focus on making it easy for developers to share their

The startup is building a facial recognition and computer vision system, though their first product is a “smart camera” that scans the faces of pedestrians, then recommends the next person they should follow.

A startup that helps people find and hire people for jobs that are not traditional office jobs, like bartending, dog-walking, or light house-keeping.

The creators of this startup are known for creating the first climate change website in the world, with a few other companies in their portfolio. Their new startup is a smart platform that helps companies track and measure their climate footprint, and also a tool for nonprofits to fundraise.

A digital tool for US colleges to create and manage their course management systems, from scheduling to tracking enrollment.

A tool for teachers to create and manage lessons. The startup has been building the platform for about a year and has about 6K users.

A startup that helps companies create quick spreadsheets for their different departments

A company that equips people to take control of their financial lives by providing tools for building personal budgets, credit, savings, and investments.

A digital assistant that powers automated tasks across a company’s infrastructure, including payments, package tracking, and invoicing.

A startup that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to mine data and offer recommendations to people based on their specific needs. The startup builds on the data that companies already collect and analyze to develop new products and services.

A new way to “sell your house faster and easier”. The startup is offering a complete online house-selling service that includes photos and videos, docs, design, and marketing.

A social network for church members that wants to help members find others of like faith.

The startup was hired by a local health center to help train and support staff in order to streamline medical operations and focus on the most important things.

This B2B startup is developing a new kind of connected home, where one of the main functions is to help users manage the energy consumption of their homes. The startup is also trying to simplify the process of getting a home inspection, which can be a confusing process for first-time home buyers.

A software platform for publishing academic papers and hosting conferences, designed for scientists, researchers, and students.

A startup that wants to help large publishers create “smart content” for their newsletters, building in-house tools for writers and editors.

A web-based platform that allows users to take pictures of their items and then automatically price them against other markets. The startup plans on using the data to build a price engine to help consumers compare prices on items they may not be able to find locally.

A startup that lets you use your smartphone’s camera to take a selfie with your face sitting in the middle of a cloud.

An online marketplace for buying and selling used cars, with sellers spread out across the US. A small number of sellers offer used cars, but most of the items are from rentals. The company has raised $40M in a Series E.

A company that helps blockchain startups roll out their tokens to consumers and businesses.

A company that helps other startups find a founder, as well as help them with the process of finding a co-founder.

A way to legally buy and sell land in the US.

A startup that aims to remove the friction from travel, allowing users to get a ride at the tap of a button.

A startup that facilitates the sale of vintage products online.

A civil engineering startup that aims to help demolish buildings and then build the foundations for new ones, in a single process. The company currently has nearly 30 customers in Europe and Asia.

A tool that helps companies keep track of their employees’ schedules and workloads, as well as manage those schedules and workloads.

A consumer-facing app that allows users to make online purchases of items from their local grocery store, like milk and bread.

A platform for buying and selling tickets to theater, concerts, sporting events and conferences. The company wants to make the ticket-buying process simple and to keep the tickets’ value as high as possible.

A blockchain-based platform to power collaborative research. The startup is building a platform that allows researchers to share data and research findings and get results published so that other researchers can build on the work.

A company that helps doctors and clinics get paid faster for their services. The company has partnerships with over 20,000 healthcare providers and raised $1.1 million.

A startup that provides a service for people in their 20s+ to find a small group of people to live with

A tool for keeping track of the people who are responsible for delivering a project.

A data platform for the music industry. The company, which was founded in 2014, is building out a platform that connects artists and labels with data about their fans and allows them to create customized playlists, from which they can then sell song downloads.

A security-focused video service that doesn’t require a subscription.

A startup building an app that helps companies manage their international workflows. The solution is aimed at companies that have multiple different offices around the world, be they full-time or digital nomads.

A bank account that the founders say is “like a personal investment account with 100x the transparency of other accounts and no fees.” The account is meant to be a savings account for small businesses or freelancers.

A company that makes it easy for people in the US to register for and apply for EU residence cards through an application on their smartphone, and have them sent to them.

A travel service that leverages machine intelligence to anticipate your needs better. It takes into account past similar trips and predicts your next trip in real-time.

A startup building a platform for the food industry to track food safety data. It’s a way for food producers to stay in touch with their customers and keep a finger on the pulse of the industry.

We are developing a payment system for small businesses that can be integrated with existing payment platforms, such as Amazon Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay.

A platform that enables online businesses to easily take payments with a credit card.

A video-game startup that is building a platform that allows users to create and monetize their own mobile games. The company has been working on the idea for over two years, and is now ready to launch.

A navigation app for the blind, which can display arrows and text to guide users in the right direction.

Helping companies in the legal industry to digitize and automate tasks that are currently done by hand, such as routine tasks like document searching and rights management.

A startup, which has raised over $1 million, that helps customers go through the process of hiring a virtual assistant. It highlights the process in a series of animated videos.

A firm that helps 1,500+ restaurants and other food establishments sell food online in the US

A platform to certify medical professionals and provide them with clinical tools to support their work.

Another startup accelerator program, Techstars was originally called TechStars but shortened its name in the summer of 2010.

A startup for booking a doctor's appointment for a specific patient in a specific location. Doctors and patients can both create and track appointments online, with the idea being that patients will be able to call in for an appointment from anywhere at any time, and doctors can only book appointments on the site.

A platform for tracking kids’ safety, built on the premise that kids can’t always tell you when something has happened.

A company that helps track flights and manage travel

A startup that helps people create more effective ways to market themselves on social media.

As of today, one of the most popular tools for building website themes is WordPress. The startup is looking to take that power of customization and commoditization to the mobile web.

A company that aims to eliminate the need to print invoices. The company’s platform handles e-invoicing, and sends out a PDF invoice to the customer automatically. They’re currently operating in California and New York.

A browser-based tool that helps you create, organize, and share your favorite recipes.

A health data startup that aims to make it easier for patients to research and manage their own health. The company’s built a mobile app to help with things like managing symptoms, tracking health conditions, and diagnosing illnesses.

A SaaS business that lets companies create and share “hierarchies”, or lists of tasks, in a format that’s easy to share and track. The goal is to help teams get organized and collaborate.

A startup that helps small businesses figure out the best way to manage their social media marketing efforts.

A startup that aims to bridge the gap between enterprise software and consumer software. It’s currently targeting the enterprise by offering enterprise features to consumer software (such as simple drag and drop to move photos around the screen, or an app that automatically shares posts to social media.)

A startup that aims to put on a conference for everyone for $1.

A call center for the gig economy aimed at helping employers recruit, manage and pay freelance workers.

A platform that provides education at a lower cost, with a focus on “smaller companies that don’t have the resources to deal with the expense and bureaucracy of traditional college”.

A startup that focuses on wellness and health through sleep and meditation.

The startup wants to teach kids to cook and make meals more accessible to people who don’t have time to cook themselves.

A startup that delivers a box of things to do when you’re bored at home

This startup is building a mobile platform for legal documents, allowing people to register a document and upload it, then send it to an attorney or various companies to have it reviewed.

In addition to the last column, each company’s founders would be listed in the “people” category. In the case where a company has multiple founders, alphabetical order is used.

A cloud-based telemedicine platform, which launched in May and claims to help doctors and patients bridge the gap that currently exists between in person and remote diagnosis and treatment.

A dashboard that helps companies monitor which customers have opened an account, and which they have actually paid.

A tool to help people get mortgages, which combines the small business loan market with the personalized loan market. It’s currently in private beta.

A mobile app that allows users to find the exact product they want at a local store, making it easier to shop for groceries by location.

This is a messaging app for food delivery workers, with the startup promising to cut down on food waste.

A ride-sharing service that lets people hire strangers to give them a ride, currently only in the Bay Area of the US.

A next-gen social network, started by a former Facebook employee. The platform has a focus on privacy and autonomy, a stark contrast to Facebook’s approach which values a vibrant social community.

Innovation in the US has become a flashpoint for the rest of the world. From its inception in 2010, the French government has invested in French Tech. In France, startups have received €4.5 billion in funding in recent years, according to INSEAD.

A tool for recording and archiving video content, and allowing users to share it with friends, via a built-in social network.

A new way to build apps. The startup is building a way to build apps that are triggered by sensors in the real world.

Idea: A workflow management tool for the development of media-rich e-learning courses

The startup is creating “a new kind of content-sharing platform” in which users can “play with the latest games, movies, and TV shows”

A company that helps technicians and technicians-to-be learn how to repair basic electronics.

A startup looking to gain a foothold in business software for the real estate industry. The startup’s platform aims to help brokers, agents and developers collaborate on the back-end of their work.

A platform that makes it easy to program drones, with a focus on making it easy for people to build and control drones with a mobile app.

This company wants to be the “Uber of labor”, so it lets small businesses find and hire contractors quickly and easily.

A startup for booking and managing automotive services. The startup builds software that allows customers to book services like oil changes, tune ups, and repairs, and also lets mechanics and mechanics’ shops set up recurring bookings.

A platform that helps companies manage multiple databases on a single platform, with a goal of making it easier to manage the most important pieces of core business software.

A startup that’s a better way to search for and purchase movie tickets, helping you find the best seats at the best price.

Emoor is a startup focused on helping freelancers manage their content.

This startup is building a mobile app that helps people track their sleep patterns, which are correlated to numerous health issues.

A platform that allows users to message and schedule appointments with their favorite doctors online.

An employee training platform, aimed at helping small businesses manage their employees with more efficiency.

A platform that builds communities around a topic through a series of articles.

A platform that allows financial advisors to provide their clients with a mobile app that helps them save more money. The startup has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.

This company builds digital assistants for developing countries, aiming to make it easy for them to get work done while using technology in ways that are not possible when living in resource-limited areas.

A real estate tech startup that’s building a tech toolkit that a property manager can use to manage and monitor their properties.

A software company that aims to “help brands execute on their digital transformation”. The startup wants to help customers find the right digital platform for their business and help them integrate different tools like marketing automation.

A startup that’s building a way to make it easier for people to waste time on social media. The startup wants to make social media less addictive and more impactful.

A financial planning startup looking to help people plan for retirement.

A chat bot that helps you find the cheapest flights to your destination, set alerts for when prices drop, and handle tons of other travel-related tasks. The startup is focused on helping travelers manage their itineraries and get the most out of their travel.

A peer-to-peer money transfer service for friends, families, or businesses. The startup plans to fund the business via a $1.5 million seed round, and is building a mobile app to help its members send money internationally.

A company that wants to make it easier to sell stuff online, both on Amazon’s platform and on your own website.

A startup in Singapore that plans to replace the human middleman in real estate transactions with an AI-powered software platform. It’s currently running a pilot in Singapore, and plans to launch in Australia next year.

Digix wants to create a gold standard for digital currencies, with the goal of making a digital currency that can be stored and transferred digitally. The company wants to create a way for buyers, sellers, and investors to exchange digital currencies and reap the benefits of a global digital currency.

This startup offers an alternative to the traditional lockbox for data centers. It’s a tamper-resistant container that can be set to be unlocked by a single person, making it easier to ensure that data is secure.

A startup that lets you export your Gmail contacts and import them into other services.

An artificial intelligence engine for the U.S. Air Force. The startup uses machine learning to predict the behavior of drones in a given environment.

A startup to give farmers a way to sell their produce without having to leave the farm or having to constantly travel between cities.

A startup that wants to create a “social media marketing dashboard” for brands.

A cycle sharing startup aimed at growing urban cycling in cities.

An employee app for Slack. It lets employees use Slack bots to communicate with each other.

A startup that wants to be the Amazon for home services, making it easier for customers to buy a service without having to rely on a retail retailer. The company has already signed up a number of local hardware stores.

A B2B company that integrates with other tools for businesses. It wants to replace the need to use different tools for digital marketing, CRM, and other functions. It’s also a B2B company.

An investment bank for emerging markets. The startup wants to make it easier for businesses to access capital.

A food delivery app for restaurants and food trucks, with the goal of helping them cut down on wasted food by bringing it right to the front door.

This startup is building an AI-powered email marketing platform for managing email marketing campaigns across all of an organization’s email addresses.

A cryptocurrency for peer-to-peer ride-sharing.

A tool to help small businesses get an edge on their competitors. It’s a toolset built to help small businesses onboard and manage clients. It’s a more advanced version of a service like HubSpot’s existing “Crowd Sourced Marketing” program.

A platform for creating video tutorials for developers, using a more visual language that’s easier for beginners to pick up on.

A product for people with a laundry list of complaints about the finance industry

A startup that provides a marketplace to connect people looking for freelance work with people looking to hire freelance work done The startup is in its pilot phase, currently connecting over 1000 freelancers with 5 companies

A text-based banking app that helps users make secure payments, like transferring money into a friend’s bank account.

A tool that helps small businesses, specifically those in the restaurant industry, manage and pay all of their in-house expenses, from utilities to payroll. In the US, their core customers are restaurants.

This app helps you find the best parking spot in New York City.

A startup that's creating a digital bank statement for businesses, allowing them to see and manage all their expenses, payments, and payments receipts.

A platform for making free, web-based 2D and 3D models.

This startup is building a set of software tools for recruiting, training, and onboarding software engineers.

A startup that makes the process of digitizing books easier for libraries, allowing them to digitize their collections and search them online.

A startup that helps you find a local moving company

A startup that helps brick and mortar stores manage their supply chains. The startup wants to make store inventory tracking easier for all retailers.

This startup wants to help companies get a better handle on their waste. It’s working on ways to monitor what they throw away, and to recycle more of it.

A B2B Internet of Things platform for the construction industry that offers a platform for construction companies to make products that can be automated, from construction vehicles to buildings. The company is building a “smart factory” that offers a low-cost manufacturing model that can be automated, allowing construction companies to run on lean manufacturing principles.

A startup for people looking to hire drivers for errands, allowing drivers to set up profiles for clients to review and contact them to set up a time for a ride.

A company building a platform to automate the process of executing large-scale acquisition deals.

A platform designed for the non-technical employee to communicate with their managers.

A new way of using React that allows you to create dynamic, yet semantic, pages with a component library.

A lot of startups ask for your email address, but few of them actually send you an email using it. Lab9 wants to be the company that helps you get emails from your favorite startups so that you can see what they’re working on and when they’ll be launching on their product.

The team behind online streaming service Yogscast has taken on the challenge of building a streaming video recorder, allowing people to set the camera down and watch a movie without touching the remote.

A startup for government contracts that’s supposed to save government agencies money.

A startup that is building a mobile app to help drivers avoid parking tickets. They’re also looking to partner with local governments.

A company that provides text and video messaging for small businesses like hair salons. In addition to text and video messaging, customers can also get a snapshot of their appointment and directions, with a chatbot alongside it.

This company is building a platform for global NGOs to better track and respond to the needs of vulnerable people around the world.

A startup for home improvement products for customers who want to make custom products. Provides a service for customers to create their own products and then market them online.

The following is a list of notable consumer product startups in North America that have raised venture funding, according to Crunchbase and its sources.

A company that provides software that helps choose the best video compression settings and then uploads videos to YouTube or Vimeo.

A full-stack mobile app for local businesses with a focus on food and drink, designed for city living.

A micro-loan startup that helps small businesses get loans to cover inventory. The company, which was founded in May, says it has already closed $1.5 million.

A social media platform for barbershop owners, who can create a profile, sell products and collect revenue from customers.

A real-time scheduling software for restaurants. It aims to replace the clunky, paper-based scheduling systems that exist today, and allow restaurants to manage wait staff, kitchen schedules and more.

A technology that helps companies understand what customers are looking at on their mobile devices.

An online marketplace for independent artists to sell their art online and generate income from commissions, and a portfolio of creators.

A startup that wants to make payments in space, between two spacecraft. They’re working with NASA on a project that aims to use a satellite system to make it possible to send cash and other items up to space — and then back down on Earth.

A startup that provides an online toolkit for building ecommerce storefronts.

The company is building a modular kitchen that allows you to pick the style you want and the size you want, then get a delivery date and install date, and then get a personalized installation guide.

A startup that provides a crowdsourced network of reviewers to deliver criticism and praise about neighborhood businesses Customers rate the businesses, and the app gives them a network of reviewers to consider

A visual scheduling tool that helps teams communicate their priorities.

A startup that helps brands to understand their customers better. The app tracks the behavior of users with a large focus on the word "love".

This is an effort to build a social network around the "sharing economy" that "provides more complete information related to people and homes" on the sharing economy than exists anywhere today.

A startup that helps you manage the logistics of your home-owning life. For instance, it helps you plan for holiday guests, help with shopping lists, discover new places to eat, and more.

A mobile app for parents to keep track of how kids are spending their money, as well as a mobile app for parents to create an expense report for their kids.

A platform, which provides a platform for the transportation industry.

A company that helps businesses manage their expenses. The startup helps with expense budgets, mileage tracking, and invoicing.

A real-time customer service chat platform.

A technology platform that helps doctors make more personal connections with patients through a network of “health coaches.”

A company developing a device that cuts the cord on the ties that attach laptops to desks.

A startup that builds custom smart shoes for people with disabilities. The shoes use a wireless accelerometer and Bluetooth technology to detect movement and alert a person when they’re about to fall. The startup is currently working with the military, but is looking to expand into consumer markets.

A startup that helps users find and discover cool places to go in their area. Also, a platform that allows other people to create their own cool places to go.

A health app that uses a person’s existing social graph to construct a “social profile” of their health and use that as a foundation for recommendations.

The soft-spoken CEO of Young Living believes that as the industry gains more attention, it will lose the stigma it once had — and that “the stigma will fall like a rock”.

A customizable subscription box for people that use the platform.

A chat service for mobile journalists, relying on a community of journalists to help distribute breaking news.

A digital curator for the art world, connecting galleries and collectors.

A startup that helps businesses automate the process of reaching out to customers and prospects. Instead of using a “cold call”, which is risky and has a 50% failure rate, companies use a “warm call” that is more successful and costs less.

An iOS app that allows a user to easily create and share a list of items or activities they want to do.

A company that allows you to easily create and manage your digital marketing campaigns from one platform. The startup, which was founded in May, has just launched its beta

A company building an app that allows people to take pictures of themselves and automatically generate optimized Facebook profiles.

A community of people looking to network, find new jobs, and get gigs from each other.

A platform to help people decide what to buy online, like a virtual Amazon.

A digital assistant that integrates with Slack, allowing users to answer calls with a simple voice command or other text-based input.

A startup that helps Chinese people who are learning English. The company is currently gathering feedback.

A startup that wants to bring the power of VR games to non-gaming situations, like holding fashion shows.

A new tool for home brewing that makes it easy for people to brew beer for the first time

A company that helps you better understand your social media habits, so you can better market yourself and your business.

Idea: A startup that’s building an app to help students make their resumes more attractive to employers.

This is a book publisher that helps authors make money from their work, by selling digital and physical copies to readers, then compensating authors with royalty payments on each sale.

A new airline that runs flights from the US to cities in the Philippines and Indonesia, using a fleet of Boeing 787-8s

Helping people put their home into a rental portfolio. The startup’s platform is meant to help investors see the potential return on investment of the investment portfolio, and to help them decide when to sell or hold out for a higher return.

A crowdsourcing platform that offers rewards based on users performing routine tasks

A platform for managing invoices. It lets you pay invoices online and can help you make sure they get paid in the right order.

A platform that answers the question of how to ensure that your employees can always access the files and tools that they need to be creative and productive.

The startup is developing a product for companies that want to conduct on-demand interviews with applicants and potential employees.

A way to make money by creating art

The startup is building a “mesh” of a microgrid. Microgrids are local electricity grids that can re-route power, and as such are an effective tool for disaster recovery.

We’re used to hearing about billion dollar startups, but none are aiming to create a unique operating system to process data like this one. A startup that wants to entirely re-invent industry standards and create a new “standard” for data-driven industries like the medical industry.

A company that sells modular home accessories designed to make building a home more efficient.

How do you make a standard 100ml bottle that’s easy to use and store without things falling over

A platform that helps the medical community make more informed decisions through data. HealthLoop cofounders are former Apple engineers who say they’ve built a prototype.

A digital banking startup for the developing world.

A platform that allows you to manage your online presence by creating and sharing content on your own behalf (for instance, a blog) and through others (for instance, a LinkedIn page.)

A startup that helps consumers save money on their car insurance by comparing insurance quotes online. It’s currently available only in California.

A tool that helps organizations understand how marketing is performing and correlate it to the bottom line.

A health insurance broker for the US that helps small businesses and organizations manage the health insurance process.

Company is building a platform to help people find and get along with friends, and help people find people with similar interests.

A platform that helps make hiring easier for companies looking to hire in-person at their offices.

A platform that allows businesses and organizations to manage on-demand cleaning services.

A financial planning startup looking to help people plan for retirement.

In these polls, the respondents were asked to pick the most innovative young companies in San Francisco Bay Area.

Internet of Things startup that wants to build a “health-care-in-a-box” for $2,000 that can be plugged into a drone, allowing doctors to give patients remote care.

A platform that helps in-home service providers, such as plumbers, electricians, and painters, get paid faster.

A software platform that brings a centralized dashboard for all your banking information, including all accounts and transactions.

A tool to help finance teams and executives track their spending and generate reports that can be used to improve management of funds.

A company that buys and sells cars. They’re on their second year and want to build a $5 billion car buying and selling business.

A startup that helps automate the "gifting" of funds to people with special needs.

A company that lets users rent their extra storage space to people who need more.

A startup that provides a “digital home” where someone can design and build a custom home online, and then have it shipped to them. The startup creates a 3D model of the house, and then puts it into a CAD program, which allows them to directly see the design, and put in every detail.

A startup that wants to optimize workflows for video and photo editing by ensuring that the right tools are available for the right task at the right time. The company, which was founded in May, has worked with partners including Adobe and Apple.

The startup has raised $2 million in funding and has 2,000 customers

This startup is building a mobile app that helps people track their sleep patterns, which are correlated to numerous health issues.

SaaS for event planners, that helps them plan, promote, and manage their events.

This startup helps manufacturers of consumer goods track their products and efficiently manage customer returns.

A San Francisco-based startup that hopes to be the Uber of finance, where anyone can get a line of credit and borrow money from friends and family.

A startup that provides financial planning for high net worth individuals and families, and which has worked with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Fidelity.

A startup that helps colleges and high schools provide students with career and technical education.

A SaaS-based app that helps employees manage their career, health, and wellness.

The startup is building a new standard for what an API is. The company gathers data from over 20 APIs, then organizes it into a single, self-contained API.

An open-source platform for building, managing, and promoting interactive web experiences.

The annual list is compiled by a group of judges, including founders and investors such as Paul Graham, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and others.

A college admissions platform that was pitched as “LinkedIn for colleges,” but with a twist: instead of looking for professional connections, the company’s users are looking for school connections. The company claims to have over 1,000 users and is looking to grow from there.

Builds on the idea of an online store for workers to make money by selling items people need — and allowing them to earn up to $15 an hour. The company says it is currently operating in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A startup that helps consumers and businesses book appointments together in one place. It’s currently seeing 1,000 monthly users and has $1.5 million in funding.

A developer-focused job site. It’s looking to help upskill tech talent in the US.

A startup that’s working on a way to integrate human and machine learning workflows. The company wants to help companies do human-based AI as well as machine-based AI.

The following startups were all listed in the “premier” category at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, but didn’t make the final cut to the demo stage of the event.

The company wants to make it easier for barbers to make money by teaching them to sell makeup and styling products.

A B2B company helping companies manage global security risk.

This app helps nail salons manage their clients, by giving them a way to check in, set appointments, and pay for services.

A SaaS platform for investors who want to track the performance of their funds.

A startup that enables people using the iOS operating system to integrate their voice, touch and facial recognition security features into their devices.

A startup that pulls news from the web and brings it to life. The startup wants to be the Swiss Army knife of news.

An AI for fraud prevention for banks.

A startup focused on making it easier to build apps with Parse. The company provides infrastructure and tools to allow developers to build better apps.

A startup that provides an app that helps people find and purchase discounted hotel rooms

A startup that’s building a way for people to test ride the Tesla Model S at their local Tesla store before they buy one.

The list is not all-inclusive, but we've tried to include a representative sample of the many companies, startups, and other organizations in the Philadelphia tech scene.

An AI-powered network for the internet of things to share data from devices, enabling devices to talk to each other and enabling the creation of new business models like predictive maintenance and maintenance as a service.

It’s a game for the modern age. It’s a fully 3D world that feels like a “world of computer generated reality.”

A tool for companies to build more efficient internal communication, involving messaging, spreadsheet automation, and scheduling. It’s the first product from the team more commonly known for their work on the cloud-based calendar startup, Meeting.ly.

A company that wants to have more transparency about the daily spending habits of its customers.

A platform to help you organize your digital content and share it with others

A “professional networking app” for freelancers, with a focus on helping them find clients. The app is free for users, and can be paid for for $10 per month for collaborators and $50 per month for business managers.

The startup is building a tool that makes it easier for people to find and investigate which loans are available to them. It also matches potential borrowers with lenders and helps them navigate the loan process.

A platform for helping banks and other financial institutions scale their mobile interfaces. The startup says it has over 40 clients.

A product that helps doctors write prescriptions digitally and seamlessly. The startup is building a digital platform that lets doctors manage the flow of prescriptions, including those for controlled substances, pain management, and common prescriptions.

A system that integrates all the different payment systems used by businesses.

You can get alerts for new tickets on the app, and the app alerts you when you get a ticket. It’s built on the messaging platform Twilio and currently has about 1,000 users.

A subscription-based service for managing your credit score. The startup is looking to partner with banks and credit card companies to make it easier to monitor your credit.

This startup is building a technology platform that allows customers to connect, share, and sell products from all industries, from apparel to cars to furniture.

A startup working on a technology platform that helps manage all of the workflows across an enterprise.

A business that works with companies that need in-person sales and marketing services in the US. It provides a model that lets companies recruit business owners and give them tools to manage the sales and marketing.

A personal trainer who has a special love for the Danish language. The startup is building a mobile app that helps people learn Danish, then helps them reach new goals through quizzes and gamification.

A team of students who want to turn their passion into a business. They’re looking to build a product that allows users to take an image with them on the go and have it instantly printed on a variety of different products, like t-shirts, posters, and even phone cases.

A startup that wants to help people make the transition from a traditional job to a freelance career.

A group of designers and developers building a basic platform to help people create and share drawings and designs, similar to how Shapes is used to share images. It is currently in private beta, with a public launch scheduled in Q1 2015.

A software company that helps brands with crisis management. They want to simplify crisis communication through their application, which allows users to create a plan of action, rally staff, and engage with customers.

A business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) platform for engineers and other tech workers.

An enterprise software company that makes it easier for companies to hire full-time employees for seasonal work, like staffing the ice cream truck at a festival. It’s a new way to do seasonal hiring that allows companies to hire flexibility rather than safety.

A startup focused on the “means of learning”.

A SaaS company that helps brands and agencies build email marketing campaigns.

A cybersecurity and privacy company that helps companies ensure that their data is kept safe.

A mobile app that allows customers to buy and sell unused airline tickets through a peer-to-peer marketplace. It’s designed to make booking travel easy for the masses.

A real estate platform for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to buy and sell real estate.

A startup focused on humanizing the process of ordering groceries, which has shown encouraging results. The company is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019.

A startup that makes a smart device for helping people with ALS focus on the task at hand rather than the body’s uncontrollable tremors. The device is controlled by a smartphone app.

A startup that wants to “help brands connect with influencers on Instagram,” with a dashboard that lets brands create content, track posts, and even buy followers. It’s also recently launched a targeting tool that allows brands to send messages to certain parts of the Instagram user base, like hip hop fans, people in the 18-24 age range, and so on.

A startup for nonprofits to manage their recurring donation programs, allowing them to figure out which programs are most effective and where to invest their money.

A startup that allows you to create, manage, and share your own audio and video podcasts. The startup wants to compete with the likes of Anchor and Pocket Casts by making it easy for the average user to create a podcast.

A payments startup that helps users receive payments from other users via credit or debit cards without sharing banking information.

A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.

Idea: A startup that’s building a central hub for access to all the websites and services people use at work It’s a modern take on intranet portals

A company that makes it easier for businesses to adopt and use technology. They’re currently working with 10 customers, including two large enterprise customers, and offer solutions in computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning.

A mobile app that creates, share, and edit a variety of different categories, including photos, videos, and audio, in the cloud.

This platform is meant to help people collect and manage information about their health.

Idea: A tool to help people who don’t have a lot of money to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

A new way to book weddings and events.

A platform that monetizes the unused power of Wi-Fi routers, allowing companies to sell it back to the public, or use it to create their own Internet service.

A content-management platform for websites, with a way to create and share content in multiple formats.

A knowledge management platform for building platforms for freelance workers.

A startup that helps small business owners in the US get loans, doing so without all of the red tape.

This startup is building a chatbot to help employers and employees connect with each other, and help employers better understand their employees' needs and how they can help them.

A “human-powered” platform that connects users with other people in their niche-of-interest. The idea is that each user has an “agent” who will help them find other people in the same area or have similar interests.

A platform for finding and hiring skilled construction workers

A platform that allows consumers to pay for products using Bitcoin. The company is not accepting outside funding.

A startup building an online marketplace for used trucks. The company is currently operating out of a warehouse and wants to build a larger, more permanent headquarters.

An online tool that helps firms manage wellness programs

A startup that lets users monetize their personal data and earn money.

A company that helps prevent data breaches. The startup’s software uses a “trusted data model” to protect data, and prevent hackers from accessing it.

This startup sells a zero-emission travel device that charges a phone, laptop, or other device when the traveler is near a wireless source.

A startup that calls itself the Amazon of homeopathic products. The company sells and ships over a hundred products to consumers, including aromatherapy oils that help people relax. It’s the leading homeopathic e-commerce site in the UK.

A crowdfunding platform for healthcare startups. The company is pitching an app that helps prompt patients to schedule appointments and get lab results.

A platform for financial advisors to manage their clients’ investments. The platform is intended to help advisors avoid mistakes often made by new advisors, and set up automatic investment reports.

A company that builds a mobile app to help farmers with the ordering and managing of their products.

A startup that provides a blockchain-based solution for cross-border payments.

A text-to-speech app, allowing users to call up text they record and have it spoken aloud in their voice.

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

A platform for building 3D objects where you can customize them to get the exact look you want.

A startup that aims to connect investors to mutual funds. The company wants to make investing more accessible to people who don’t have a lot of assets.

This startup is developing a way to help people track their medical expenses and make sense of them in order to avoid unexpected bills.

A housing startup that’s building a “blockchain-powered” rental platform, to help individual agents and investors rent out apartments.

This startup is making a tool to help people track their buying behavior and improve their decisions. It counts companies like Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, and Nike among its customers.

A company that makes home security systems that can be monitored from anywhere. It takes a user-friendly approach to things like dummies, cameras, and sensors to make a security system feel like a home.

A company that provides on-demand web design and development services for small and medium sized businesses. They say their tool is affordable for businesses and their customers.

Providing a way for athletes to train in real-time via web cam.

The batch featured Y Combinator alumni and exits.

A tool for turning text into GIFs and other image-based images, and also for sharing GIFs and images.

A machine learning-based system that assists in the verification of employee performance.

A platform that helps companies manage and streamline their supply chain operations. The startup is “a platform for companies to create and manage their supply chain, build a supply chain network, and automate the entire process.” The company has a team of 10 in Seattle.

A company that helps hot dog vendors in New York City sell their hot dogs by linking them to their Instagram accounts. It’s meant to make the process of selling hot dogs more efficient and profitable.

A team of engineers are developing a product platform for software development and automation. Their first product is a small team of bots that let you instantly communicate with anyone on Slack, and they are also developing conversational AI tools to automate tasks.

A platform for micro-loans that don’t require collateral.

This startup aims to make it easier to develop mobile apps for all platforms

This startup lets people unlock the Internet with the wave of their hand. It’s like a WiFi-enabled and Bluetooth-enabled pair of glasses, but instead of tracking your eye movements, it tracks your hand movements.

A software that uses a data-driven approach to help identify potential drivers of consumer sentiment.

A startup that helps governments with the problem of how to enforce and monitor their immigration laws. Their goal is to let immigration enforcement agencies be more efficient and humane.

A platform that allows users to set up their own private school and enroll their kids in it. It claims to have schools in a dozen countries.

A home automation platform that turns your light switches into smart light switches.

A startup that wants to help companies make sense of the many different financial transaction systems that they manage.

A startup that aims to solve the problem of “reputation” for people, who will be able to manage all of their information on one platform, as opposed to multiple.

A scheduling tool for real estate agents that helps them see clients in real time and build relationships.

A startup focused on helping to lower the cost of the gig economy. They provide a platform for workers to outsource tasks as much as they need, and helps clients with tasks like hiring, HR, and payroll.

The company that makes the Tiny Guide app is building an app that will help the blind navigate the streets of cities. The app uses a combination of technology and human volunteer navigators to point out street names, traffic lights and other landmarks. It also is likely to be the first app to integrate with the Apple Watch.

A cloud-based system for SMBs to book and manage their work schedules

A platform that helps design teams collaborate remotely by streamlining the process of creating or revising templates or documents.

A platform that helps business owners build a sales funnel to sell more products and services.

A web service that helps businesses find and organize their marketing data. It integrates with Excel and Salesforce.

A platform that allows businesses to identify and hire the best talent for any job they’re hiring for.

A way to make it easier for people to create and share maps and maps of things like cities and parks.

This startup is building an app that helps people plan their next moves in the event of a natural disaster.

A Facebook-like app that lets anyone build and sell a mobile website. It’s a way for people who don’t build websites to earn money rather than create their own, and has a profitable model.

A startup making a visual, easy to use platform for curating and sharing podcasts.

A startup that helps companies find financing for trade shows, starting with the idea that the more you finance the show, the more you sell, and the more you sell, the more you can finance it.

A way for people to invest in stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments for the purpose of gaining tax benefits.

A startup that wants to be the Amazon of online shopping. Not only does it compete with Amazon, but also with

A company that provides a mobile app that helps farmers manage the business of growing and selling produce. The app is free and uses a system of “contracts” to help farmers manage their crops.

An AI-powered chatbot that will guide buyers through the home buying process, with an interface that is designed to make the experience very similar to that of a real agent. The startup believes that this will lead to a significant increase in home sales.

A platform for building and selling online courses. The startup is a Y Combinator alum.

This app helps people find classes they can take on nights and weekends.

A startup in the fitness-tracking space that’s giving people an app that provides them with on-demand workouts. The startup is selling workouts that are already designed by a group of experts, for $12 a piece.

A platform for buying and selling data, allowing businesses and researchers to share datasets.

A startup that helps companies hire employees with experience in the field they’re hiring for.

This startup is building an ad platform for video games, to help game publishers, platforms, and advertisers reach a more engaged audience.

A startup that wants to connect freelance workers with jobs through an AI-powered marketplace. The startup is currently working with Capital One to help the bank recruit independent workers.

A company that powers the chat experience in messaging apps. It allows users to completely customize the appearance and behavior of their chats, especially with respect to things like changing background colors and fonts.

This startup is building software for business owners to sell their inventory through a marketplace.

A cloud-based accounting tool for small- and medium-sized businesses. The company has been using the service since September 2013, and has over 170 clients.

A startup that provides a platform for developers to create a virtual reality experience for customers. The startup is building out a marketplace for developers to sell their work.

A peer-to-peer (P2P) payment app that allows you to transfer money to your friends and family.

An AI-driven platform that makes it easier for people to “see themselves” in 3D.

A health data system that integrates with the rest of the health care system to create a “single source” of information for people.

Resolves the age-old problem of when to quit a job for something new.

A self-serve platform for scheduling dental appointments across the country.

A tool that helps people track their usage of the internet

A free web-based platform for creating and sharing 3D models of objects.

A digital video production company that uses AI to create short videos to promote products, such as those for car dealerships.

A “remote headquarter solution” that provides a virtual office for employees who work from home.

A company that helps companies book tours and events at museums and galleries. The startup’s founders previously worked at the Louvre, and want to help them grow their business in the UK, US, and Canada.

Zillow has a variety of plans for how you can pay for your house, from very inexpensive ones (up to $300 per month) to more expensive ones (up to $2,000). The startup wants to allow people to do more things with their house, like renting it out or renting it out while they’re not there.

The startup is looking to serve the needs of small and medium-sized companies by offering “managed customer relationship management.”

A startup that provides a marketplace for businesses to buy and sell excess freight capacity

A food delivery app that departs from the usual model, charging for delivery to non-customers. Instead of waiting for a customer to order, you can order from a restaurant from the app and have it delivered. The startup is currently in the pilot phase.

This is a startup that uses text messaging to help people in the US who are seriously ill or have cancer manage their treatment and reach out to their loved ones.

Trying to make the smart home as easy as possible for consumers.

A startup that allows users to schedule, coordinate and communicate with others on a shared calendar.

A Y Combinator company that wants to make it easy for users and developers to integrate and track all of their different online services.

A hardware startup that wants to integrate sensors and cameras into shoes. The company collects information on how people walk, which it then uses to train computer vision algorithms to detect hazards and improve safety.

A company that helps real-estate agents sell homes by offering a part-time gig as a virtual realtor.

A product developed for the Department of Defense to help soldiers train for their jobs under simulated conditions. The startup wants to connect with both military and civilian facilities, so it can create virtual training environments and simulate real-life scenarios.

A startup that turns waste into compost, fertilizer, and fuel through a patented process.

A startup that helps employers build “vacation-ready” employee benefits.

A startup that wants to create an on-demand service where users can turn their less-than-perfect photo into a work of art.

A company bringing machine learning to ecommerce, allowing retailers and brands to easily personalize their products with data-driven suggestions.

This company wants to teach people how to be a good entrepreneur. The company’s founder is Anand Rajaraman, who ran a business development and strategy practice at Amazon and Google for more than a decade.

A video platform that allows businesses to broadcast to all of their customers, whether they’re watching, listening or just browsing on the mobile Web

A software platform for companies planning to do an IPO. The company provides pre-IPO planning tools for companies to enable them to do an IPO more efficiently.

Makes it easier for freelance developers to get paid.

A team-building app to help people schedule and manage team meetings.

A tool for helping companies create and launch products, with a focus on the sales and marketing side of the business.

A platform for developers to build mobile apps without having to build the code

A startup that wants to build smart manufacturing products for the auto industry. The company is building sensors into cars to monitor parts and produce a report of each car’s performance.

A web portal for landlords and renters in the Philippines

A health insurance solution for employers in the US. They’re still in the early stages, with a total of 3 employees and 4 clients.

A new version of the popular private messaging app for Android, to be released in early 2018. It will have new features and a re-designed interface, and will allow people to purchase and download stickers and other content from the company’s partners.

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

A startup that creates a digital trail of products for consumers to track and manage, from an item of clothing to a car. The founders aim to make it easy to track your life’s possessions.

A company that helps people store and manage content on Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Microsoft OneDrive.

A company that helps businesses with their search advertising. The company is built on a search engine called SmartyStreets, which is built on a sheet of paper and helps users find businesses that match their needs.

A social network where users can ask and answer questions about various topics like dating, fashion, and fitness.

A health-tracking bracelet that lets users monitor their sleep quality and how good they are at managing it

A fitness app for everyone, not just professional athletes. The app helps users track their daily activity and exercise goals.

A sports team management application for teams, coaches, players and teams.

A startup that helps companies with product development in their local language “develop faster”.

A software platform that allows businesses to build apps for employees to track their time and get paid for it automatically. They have 12 customers and are still growing.

A way to “sharpen the pencil” for developers, letting them easily visualize and measure their code. It’s currently in private beta, with around 300 users.

A startup aiming to create a platform that makes it easier for people to share things like photos, videos and files.

Zapier wants to help small businesses automate physical tasks using web tools. It’s currently in private beta with a few thousand users, and the startup is seeking to raise funding to grow it.

A product discovery platform for e-commerce companies.

A free cloud-based accounting software for small businesses. The startup is looking to be a streamlined accounting system for the small business owner.

A startup that provides users with all the aspects of the Netflix experience, except the selection of the show, which automatically adapts to the viewer.

Idea: An AI-driven tool for filtering resumes for tech and engineering jobs

A platform to help brands brand pro athletes

A startup that wants to let you take a selfie of yourself, and send it to a friend who’s also taking a selfie, and then you two can see each other’s faces in real time.

A company that wants to bring high-end eyewear to the mass market through a subscription model. The startup is also building a platform for high-end eyewear to sell directly to consumers.

A startup that allows sellers in China to find and sell inventory to their customers.

A platform to enable a “smart pool”. The startup is building technology that allows for robotic pool maintenance so pool owners don’t have to spend hours performing maintenance tasks.

A startup to help people buy and sell second-hand goods, with an emphasis on helping people in emerging markets.

A platform for small to medium size business owners to create a customized email marketing campaign that can be send to their customers.

A digital identity platform and communications network for digital society, based on the open source Edunet system, used in Venezuela prior to the Chávez administration.

A group of friends launched a startup racing to build a go-anywhere, accessible, and affordable modular electric car. The car is a lightweight, urban electrical vehicle, with a range of about 500 miles, a top speed of about 70 mph, and a starting cost of $10,000.

A tool for helping journalists report their stories, eliminating the time it takes to manually transcribe interviews.

This startup wants to make online real estate investing more accessible to millennials, with a platform that helps investors manage investments and track performance.

A platform that helps businesses optimize their supply chain by helping them to analyze data in real-time and identify opportunities for growth. They charge a standard rate of $150 per month per company.

A way to automatically sell your old stuff on eBay, using big data to determine what you’re likely to buy again.

This startup is building a way to keep track of employees’ work hours, salaries, and benefits. It’s building a proprietary software that allows companies to do this, and takes the place of a payrolling system.

The startup plans to help employees manage their travel expenses online and keep track of reimbursable expenses.

A remote management service that allows businesses to manage employees and clients with a single dashboard. It’s designed for medium to large businesses with over 100 employees.

A Slack-like platform for online chat rooms and one-on-one messaging using customizable avatars to represent each user.

A company that has built an online community, where users vote on questions and experts answer them using video and text. The startup is working with the NFL, which is using it as a way to raise awareness of player safety in the NFL.

A startup that helps companies use their database as part of their marketing with a service that allows companies to send internal mail with customer data via a marketing platform.

A company that helps people achieve their goals in life by helping them track their progress toward goals in various areas of their lives.

A company that allows you to buy and sell goods on eBay directly from within a mobile app. Founded by former Facebook exec Justin Kan, Hangers was started in 2014 and has raised $5.5 million. and has over 30,000 users.

The startup makes on-demand cleaners available for home services, largely to help cities manage their waste. By putting the service in the hands of users, it helps cities cut costs and be more efficient.

A visual collaboration tool for realtors, which allows them to create virtual walk-throughs of homes and homesites.

This startup wants to help companies in the US and Canada manage their expense report software.

A startup app that helps you put your Tesla car into “hybrid mode” so you can use it like a gas car in the city.

A blockchain-based platform to help hyper-local vendors make online sales.

A startup that helps a family navigate the health care system when a loved one is sick

A platform to help brands brand pro athletes

A mobile app that pays you for driving and other transportation.

A startup that offers an app of more than $20 billion in ticket sales on the secondary market.

Co-founders said they were inspired by the success of Airbnb but found themselves frustrated by the startup’s inability to deliver on its promises. Rival hotel booking site Hotels.com filed for an IPO in April 2016.

A SaaS platform that helps customers purchase, manage, and monitor cellular phone accounts.

A tool for handling the note-taking process in meetings. The note-taking app helps teams organize meetings, store meeting notes, and store the notes in a database.

A web and mobile based platform for peer-to-peer lending.

A way for parents to manage their children’s social media accounts so that they are age-appropriate.

This startup is building an e-commerce platform for the world’s small manufacturers — including those in the US. They’re hoping to help 1 million small manufacturers by 2020.

A company whose software can help people buy and sell used cars.

A tool that allows users to send and receive payments in Bitcoin through email. The company’s goal is to make it simple to pay friends and family with cryptocurrency.

A company that helps people save money on their mobile phone bills. The startup is focused on helping people in countries where mobile services are expensive, as is the case in Mexico. It currently offers a mobile plan on a monthly basis and has signed on the largest mobile company in Mexico.

A digital payments platform for the emerging markets. The startup wants to help companies who don’t have access to traditional banking services in developing countries.

A platform for peer-to-peer lending of solar panel equipment, allowing anyone to buy, sell or lease solar panels.

A startup that provides a gamified platform to help businesses understand and improve products and services to their customers. The startup sees itself as a kind of “Twilio for data”.

Empowering people with disabilities to improve their quality of life through home accessibility and independent living products.

A startup that is building a way for users to create and share animated GIFs within their social media networks. The company offers a free plan with premium features.

Bizbuyers is a “social shopping platform” that links businesses with buyers. The company wants to be an “Amazon for small businesses”.

The company’s first product is an AI-enabled conversational assistant, available in the US and spoken in English, Spanish, and French. It turns a user’s smartphone into a virtual assistant, with text-to-speech capabilities, a voice dialer, and other features

An online tool for researching and buying goods made from recycled materials.

An automaker that builds electric vehicles, with a focus on selling electric cars in emerging markets.

A startup that helps people who are trying to learn a new language socialize with others online

This startup is a product management platform for smaller companies, helping them handle their product backlog.

A startup for finding and booking travel that uses a bank of 5,000 itineraries to provide personal customization. It’s in the phase of becoming a booking site, with a desktop app in development, and a plan to open it up to all users.

This company wants to help small businesses, independent contractors, and freelancers manage their taxes.

A platform for freelancers that allows freelancers to bid on open roles, making it easier to find work.

This startup is building an app that allows users to buy and sell local goods to each other directly in person, without going through a middleman.

The following companies have received funding from 500 Startups, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with over $1 billion in funded companies:

Another tool for managing your Google Drive documents with Markdown.

A company that provides credit data to banks and financial institutions. The company is part of an institutional group called “Funding Circle”

Polite.com is building on the idea of “time banking” — people who trade their time for other people’s labor. They have a number of products that do this, including a new one that pairs people with tasks and then allows them to track their work.

A tool for talent acquisition, like LinkedIn, but for startups. Covers things like scheduling, calendar management, etc. and helps startups keep track of their own employees.

A tool for tracking and sharing the status of social media pages.

This is an ongoing list of startups that have raised funding. This list is compiled from Crunchbase and other news sources.

This company is trying to bring the power of machine learning to stock markets. It’s working to create a way to use machine learning to find correlations between stock prices and macroeconomic data, to identify bubbles and create predictive models.

A medical device startup that’s building an ingestible biosensor for more efficient glucose monitoring.

A B2B company that manages non-emergency medical transport and emergency medical transport

A way for consumers to sell their old electronics and get paid for it, using an app that makes it easy for the buyer to scan barcodes.

An analytics tool for companies to track a person’s digital footprint and help them make smarter decisions based on that data.

A way to let people crowdsource their ideas (like Kickstarter) from the comfort of their home, where they can focus on the creative process without having to deal with logistics.

A social network for restaurant employees and customers, with a focus on the restaurant’s culture and the people who go there.

A software company that is building a solution for managing a client’s daily expenses, which they say is easier than using a spreadsheet or creating a budget online.

A startup that is building a service that will allow people to use their own credit cards to buy tickets to events.

A startup that wants to give new restaurant owners the tools they need to start a food-focused business. It’s a digital menu, a store, and a way to book reservations from a single app.

The startup is building a new kind of mobile payments platform that aims to be the “Google of payments”. The company says they have more than 150,000 merchants on the platform.

This is an on-demand dog walker business, with an app that allows users to request a walker with an ease of use similar to Uber.

An AI-driven platform that comes with a team of data scientists, software engineers, and designers, and which wants to help companies find talent in India.

A Pinterest-like social network for artisans, with a focus on artisans in developing countries. The platform uses a marketplace to help artisans sell their goods and connect with customers, and features "artists in residence" to help guide new sellers.

A dating site for people who don’t want to date people of the opposite sex.

a startup that helps customers cancel recurring subscriptions

A startup that is building a new type of computer, which it says can make computing more efficient and easier to create.

A New York-based startup that sells t-shirts that have a QR code embedded on them to track where the item was shipped.

An online marketplace for families, offering a place for the family to share and buy things together, from toys to gifts to babysitting

A startup working in the fintech space that wants to make it easier for businesses to categorize and label currencies, which many companies struggle to do because of the complexities of ISO 4217.

A software company with a suite of tools for managing your credit scores.

A platform that helps app developers create games that can be played from mobile and web.

A platform for businesses to help their employees track hours and pay for independent contractors. The startup has already been used by companies like Hewlett Packard, CVS, and DMCI.

A platform that helps people find a stylist to help them choose a style that fits their personality and lifestyle, while helping them find and book a stylist.

A machine learning platform that uses machine learning to predict which products will sell well.

A tool for marketers to collect customer feedback across multiple channels (web, email, phone, social media, etc.) and turn it into actionable data. The tool is meant to be used by marketers to help them improve their marketing strategies.

This startup wants to make sure you never miss a call from your boss or a client again. The startup’s app lets you see when someone’s calling you on your phone with a “call waiting” feature, and make it easy to connect with them.

A free stock-photo website that offers a $5 monthly membership, or a $200 monthly membership that allows some extra features, like an Apple News subscription

The idea behind this platform is to allow businesses to share their data with their customers and other companies. The API allows businesses to send messages and information to each other, and to integrate different products.

A startup that uses AI to help companies understand the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns, and change them accordingly.

A privacy app that makes it easy for anyone to create a "user-controlled" search engine.

A mobile app that helps people lose weight, based on a diet program called the “Bulletproof Diet”.

A startup that helps people find and book live conferences, and also organizes its own.

A startup that helps you book a cheap flight and hotel room for a conference you’re attending, or a client you’re meeting with.

A CB Insights alum re-entering the market after 10 years at another firm.

Propeller is building an enterprise-level social network for fast-growing companies to get the right people in the right room at the right time. The company is a response to the explosion of talent acquisition platforms on the market.

A startup developing a platform for employees to be notified of their schedule, get a link to the correct file, and set up auto-expiring files. The startup is mainly focused on the logistics of building out their system and should have a better idea of when they’ll launch by the end of the year.

A company that’s building a product that lets people share their ideas with people who work in similar fields, with a goal of making it easier for people to find new jobs.

A tool that puts a financial advisor in your pocket.

A company that wants to use AI to identify fraudulent texts, emails, and calls before they’re delivered to your phone.

A programmable lock that can be used by consumers and businesses to control access to their homes, offices, and cars.

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Artsy is building a peer-to-peer platform that leverages the best art curators and artists to help connect buyers with sellers and sellers with buyers. The startup is building an artist marketplace that allows artists to connect directly to buyers on the platform.

A platform that helps craftspeople work with brands to create custom goods, taking commissions

A platform for crowd-sourcing ideas and designs, where users can create mockups of their idea and give it to others to vote on.

A company that helps companies with digital marketing by providing software and data to help them better understand customer behavior.

A startup that wants to provide a more unified experience for using Slack, a popular chat app. It wants to take this message board-like service one step further by integrating with other services like Trello and Asana.

This is a place for people to buy used electronics

New York-based startup is building an app that allows users to post and exchange photos and short videos together. The startup is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and other notable venture capitalists.

A platform that helps people hire and manage freelance designers, developers, and other professionals.

This is a Shopify-like app for online clothing stores. It’s available in the US and Canada for now.

A new way to buy and sell items in the world of cryptocurrencies

A video creation tool for real estate agents, meant to allow agents to “film, edit and upload videos in minutes”.

A way to create and share documents with integrated collaboration tools.

Idea: A startup that provides a small-scale, educational version of a Tesla Powerwall battery to budding solar panel users The company says that their product is the fastest-growing solar product in the United States, and has seen an 800% increase in the number of students using it

A mobile-only bank account for Brazil. A tiered account that allows individuals to pay bills and receive transfers.

A startup for local services like dry cleaning, delivery or house cleaning.

A platform that helps women get back to work after being stay at home.

A platform that helps employers and the government monitor their workers’ health.

Founded in 2017, the company is building technology to help people manage the complexities of their finances.

A network for users that pay for comedy to get access to higher-quality content from sponsors.

A mobile app that helps people find the best deals on local goods, like groceries and coffee. It’s focused on food delivery and grocery delivery, with a case study showing higher sales for customers in areas served by the service.

A startup for companies that want to run their own video and audio conferencing system for internal meetings

A platform that helps hospitals and other medical facilities send patients’ medical records to doctors and other medical staff. The company is trying to work with a dozen hospitals to deploy the solution.

A tool that allows businesses to request and share feedback from customers

A product meant to automate the process of selling and buying online, with an emphasis on the international market.

A tool that aims to help companies get a better sense of their social media performance, with a dashboard for teams to see all their online conversations.

An online platform for people to sell and buy their own cars. The company has already sold over $200,000 worth of vehicles, and has signed up over 400 sellers.

A startup that lets you create a schedule of classes and events for the school year for a particular student.

A data scientist-powered machine learning platform for the retail industry, enabling retailers to serve customers with personalized, real-time recommendations for their shopping trips.

A company building a lot of tags for IoT devices, including temperature sensors, temperature probes, humidity probes, GPS tags, NFC tags, RFID tags, and barcode and QR code tags.

A platform for data-driven advertising

A startup that makes learning about the world more accessible to people around the world

A platform that helps fund your first 100,000 dollars in your business.

A digital currency that works with existing payment systems like PayPal.

The startup is building a tool to help people find local startups, with a focus on LA. The startup is currently being bootstrapped.

A company that wants to build a set of tools that enable teams to work together more efficiently across projects.

A tool to help founders and engineers create and distribute their personal blog posts.

A digital assistant for the blind and visually impaired. The startup plans to make all of its products mobile and accessible through various apps.

A startup looking to help high-risk traders get access to the tools they need to manage their portfolios.

This is an application that lets you set up a credit card and apply for a bank loan instantly, within a few minutes of signing up.

TeleServ is building a service that helps people track and improve the speed of their insurance claim. The company offers a set of tools that let people track claims, check claims status, and communicate with service reps.

A platform that lets you search through a pool of experts.

A new way to help people stay accountable for their food. The company wants to help people keep track of their meals with a graphing platform.

A startup using a combination of machine learning and an artificial intelligence program to improve customer service.

A company that’s building a “novel” construction management system for construction projects that use “smart data” to predict how expensive a project will be down to the square foot of a building. It’s meant to replace the current method where a project management team manually calculates the costs.

A startup that helps women measure their menstrual cycle in a way that’s more conducive to women’s health.

What’s the future of retail A startup that helps retailers visualize, optimize, and design their stores using the latest AI and machine learning technologies.

This startup uses machine learning to help brands target their followers on social media, offering a suite of tools for marketers to create accurate audience segments for their campaigns.

A tool that helps employees get to know each other better by organizing office lunches.

A startup that helps people track their workouts and plan healthy meals. The startup is focused on helping people who are healthy and want to keep it that way, and the company says that because the company’s algorithms are based on historical exercise data, it’s able to identify trends that are more accurate than what a person might individually determine for themselves.

A tool to help nonprofits offer more flexible and affordable services to low-income populations.

An API for helping to automate the management of an office.

A tool for solving problems for people who can’t communicate with doctors.

An AI-powered matching tool that connects employers with job seekers.

A company that helps workers manage their time and productivity. To do so, the startup uses a system of digital badges and rewards to motivate employees.

A medical app for patients to help them connect with a variety of medical professionals in their area.

A SaaS startup that helps companies with their stock management and inventory management

A SaaS platform that connects people who own debt with people who want to pay it off. The company says it’s already signed up “a few hundred” users.

A free (or low-cost) online platform that helps you to organize your digital life, with different tabs for different projects like apps, notebooks, notes and more.

A cryptocurrency exchange based in Georgia. It was founded by an ex-Blackberry employee, who saw the need for a more professional cryptocurrency exchange.

A company that helps developers build apps for the iPhone. The startup already has 7 clients, including the Obama campaign, and plans to go public in the first quarter of 2020.

A startup that helps brands and developers build mobile video games. Their platform easily integrates with existing games and offers a suite of tools for onboarding, publishing, and monetizing.

A startup that wants to make it easier to share your training courses with the world, giving them a way to host and distribute training courses to a global audience

A “smart” CRM for teams, allowing managers to set up automated interactions with their sales reps and customers.

“A startup that implements fintech software in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia, India, and China.”

A web-based dashboard for financial advisors to access real-time data and get instant notifications when something is wrong.

A way to help people learn how to create and design products online

A messaging app for healthcare providers and people with chronic illness. The app is now in beta and has more than 1,000 users.

In the last year, we’ve seen the creation of several new VC-backed startups, many of which we expect to grow into companies worth $50 million or more in the next year. (A few are already there.) Here’s a look at some of the most promising:

The startup is building a platform for entrepreneurs to easily build and market their products. The startup's founder says that it can also provide financing to help scale businesses.

Real estate startup that wants to help landlords put their buildings on the MLS, reduce the number of agent calls they get, and automate their signups.

A platform for hiring people to speak at events. The startup uses its own software, which allows companies to advertise their events, and then lets people apply to speak. The startup says it has already reached $1 million in recurring revenue.

A robo-advisory startup that wants to help advisors get the right investments for their clients.

A company that helps organizations build internal teams and manage them so they can be more efficient and effective.

This is an API for companies’ internal data. The company has over 50 employees.

A startup that aims to help companies find the best talent for each job. They are based in New York City.

A home energy service software company that helps users track and manage their energy usage in real-time. Anyone can install the service, which allows users to subscribe to a specific time frame or a whole week and pay $5 to $8 per day. Meant to help people save money on their energy costs.

A platform that lets people raise money for crowdfunding campaigns via their mobile phones.

A tool for building your own custom, custom-branded t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc. with a minimum of fuss.

The company is building a single-sign-on tool for small and medium-sized enterprises, helping them manage multiple logins for different services.

A startup that makes it easier for people to manage their finances, offering a suite of tools that are free for personal finance and budgeting.

A “artificial intelligence” system that allows homeowners to program lighting, music, and other home automation features via voice commands.

A startup that goes after the 5 million small businesses that have yet to accept payments online. Their vision is to be able to “complete, manage, and reimburse small business invoices”.

This company encourages people to trade in their old phones for a new one that’s refurbished and refurbished again.

This startup is building a “smart” bike that can tell you how many calories you’ve burned and how far you’ve ridden. The device is designed to help people get fit, and is a spinoff of the company’s original product, a smart wristband that used to measure blood oxygen levels.

This startup is building an iOS app that helps users find and book events that fit their interests.

A social networking platform to help English learners learn English, and for native speakers to learn Spanish.

A way for people to take a photo of their food, and see where it came from and what was in it. It’s already up and running, and aims to keep customers up to date on the food they eat.

A social-media platform for contractors, designed for organizations with a small project or need.

An online marketplace connecting businesses with their customers, by removing the pain of looking for the right product, by allowing them to find the right supplier.

A startup that helps music producers create custom soundtracks for commercials and television.

A company that builds products that help people understand their finances and save money. It saves customers money in the form of lower interest rates and lower cost of credit, and it pays interest on all savings in a person’s bank account.

A company that reduces the time it takes to book a hotel room. They’re already live in London and San Francisco, and are looking to expand internationally.

A startup that helps people develop a retirement plan, track what their savings are and transfer them to a new retirement home. The startup is in nine other countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

A hand-woven bag that looks like a pineapple. The startup is building a community of knitters, who will make and sell pineapple-shaped bags to be used as a summer beach bag or a gift for a friend.

An event-driven service that allows users to create and share their own content directly to your website. It’s a tool that helps you build content, then share it with your audience to drive traffic to your site.

A tool for designing and building websites.

A payments startup for small businesses in India, which wants to make it easier for SMBs to accept payments from major banks.

A company that matches brands with influencers. It says its goal is to help brands “create meaningful engagement and grow their influencer’s audience.”

A new way of selling, which allows a startup to sell a product without risk to the buyer, then buy it back later.

A company that helps connect buyers with sellers of used goods. They’re also working on a social network for used goods.

A startup that sells a “next generation” app that’s “a more engaging way to interact with your phone”.

A B2C company that sells a system that allows parents to monitor their kids’ social media activity from their phone.

Helps small business owners find the right talent, like accountants, lawyers and consultants. Things like word-of-mouth, LinkedIn, past client referrals and referrals from the company’s own customers are used to get business owners to the right talent.

Indiegogo's projects are ranked by the number of backers they have, with each project required to have at least 1,000 backers before they are eligible for the “Most Funded” ranking. The number of backers is determined by the number of times the project has been funded.

A startup that helps people create and host a one-on-one relationship with advisors.

A digital platform that helps people save money when they’re shopping online, allowing them to search for sales and coupons, and monitor their spending in real time.

A startup that is building a platform that connects companies with people who can help with IT projects. For instance, someone might build a new website, but they need a developer to make the site work.

An e-commerce platform for small businesses. The company is building a marketplace that lets small businesses sell online.

The founders of this startup are trying to create a new kind of credit card that can be used across multiple merchants, instead of different cards for different merchants.

A way to use the public API of a company to send out notifications about its products.

A platform for advertisers to create and manage branded content. It’s a platform that allows brands to have their own branded content, from videos to podcasts to blogs.

A company building a marketplace for providers of clothing, accessories, and home decor. The startup aims to eliminate the middle-man and help customers find the best deals, no matter if they live in São Paulo or Seattle.

This startup is building a suite of tools that helps companies create “happy accidents” by helping them create prompts that can be used to encourage employees to take risks, test new products, etc.

An automated process for finding and blocking bad reviews on Amazon.

A startup that sells a “customizable, open-source video doorbell”.

A startup for keeping track of your credit cards and bank accounts, with the goal of making it “as easy as possible for millennials to deal with money”.

This “authentic voice-calling” startup lets you make and receive phone calls using Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant devices.

A startup that helps startups grow by giving them access to the biggest potential customer base in the world - the US government. The company's proprietary Fintech platform provides access to the US government's banking, insurance and finance systems.

A platform that helps saving for retirement, based on the idea that many Americans’ retirement savings come from old-fashioned and not so old-fashioned vehicles: cash deposits, a Roth IRA, or a 401(k).

The company claims the idea is "boring, obvious and yet so necessary" in an email.

A company that helps connect users with movers, whether it’s for students moving into a new apartment or for people moving out of an office.

A tool that brings together the many different systems a small business needs to run smoothly and help them keep track of that information.

A startup that helps businesses spend less on electricity costs by managing their energy usage (through usage monitoring and energy saving measures.)

“A game-centric ad network for publishers and brands”, with a focus on games.

A machine learning platform that can tell you what your customers want to buy, and why.

A startup that provides a service to help people in their 60s and over find quality, affordable day care for their grandchildren

A company that creates a platform to help people find the best places to live in their city.

A web service that helps people design and sell websites, with a side business providing the visual design

A platform that allows people to control their own digital media by allowing them to create, edit, and compose their own digital media and get paid for it.

A startup that wants to help people in developing nations to access the global stock market in a way that helps them avoid high fees and complicated paperwork.

A solution for small businesses that want to send sales receipts.

A software company with a suite of tools for managing your credit scores.

A company that helps restaurants see how many people are dining in their restaurants. They are currently working with over 80 restaurants in the UK.

A platform for anyone to create a digital assistant that gives them reminders and sends them emails. The assistant will be “built in a way that is easy for users to interact with (like Amazon Alexa)”.

A platform for organizing campaigns, parties, and conferences.

A product-development toolkit for fashion designers. The company’s built a digital design studio to help fashion designers and brands bring their products to life.

A tool that makes it easy to make videos with simple software. The startup is built on the Huddle video hosting platform.

A startup that builds security tools for the cloud. The startup aims to use threat intelligence from the NSA and other government organizations to create a platform that can help find and stop hacker attacks.

A tool that helps you figure out which of your friends are in financial trouble. It sends you a link to their profile and asks you a few questions to figure out if they’re in financial trouble.

"The top 1,000 companies can now share insights from their books instantly, via a single view across all their systems."

Tomo is building a way to make it easier for businesses and other organizations to handle their customer data. They’re a self-hosted app for multiple cloud providers, letting people create databases and use them for marketing, CRM, and analytics.

A platform that allows people to choose the best time of day to start a workout, with a built-in coach to guide them through their workout session.

A web-based service that allows people to create events for non-profits and make donations easier.

An idea that lets the consumers to subscribe for some services and then receive it at their doorstep.

The startup wants to help employers get more out of their employees by making the job experience more personalized. They have a service that tracks the details of a worker’s life and turns it into a personalized, detailed online resume.

A product that combines a “digital kitchen scale” with a connected kitchen appliance. The goal is to make cooking more precise; for instance, you can measure the exact amount of rice you’re using.

A mobile app that helps people track, report, and take action against street harassment.

This startup sells an iPhone app that creates an altitude profile of a user's movement over time and tells them where they are in relation to the mountain ranges around them.

A business-to-business marketplace that connects manufacturers and distributors with retailers so they can sell products to consumers directly.

A platform that connects people with big dreams with the capital to make them come true. It’s an investment platform, and a crowdfunding site at the same time.

The app lets users make calls and send texts to other users who are nearby. To make the service work, users have to register with a phone number and create a profile.

A company that wants to use CRM data to build a better customer experience. So far it’s built a pilot program that serves as an internal CRM for a few hundred employees at a 100k company.

A tool that helps you search for and find your lost phone, on a map that shows it’s current location.

A solution for the “millennial” generation that allows users to send money to friends, or use it to pay for items online.

This startup is building a system that allows businesses to manage their supply chain and logistics through a website and mobile app. The platform also integrates with third-party tools, like Salesforce to give users access to the data they need.

An online platform that connects small businesses to digital advice and support from experts to help them grow and thrive.

A company that wants to help corporations with payments for conferences, events, and other recurring payments.

A free online application for learning Portuguese, Spanish, French, or Italian.

A startup that helps contractors bid for jobs, with a focus on projects that are often hard to nail down.

A company that wants to help companies take “long-form” questions, like “What should I do next” and “How do I get started”, and turn them into short, digestible answers.

Measuring the legal and ethical impact of social media.

A platform for farmers to connect with farm equipment dealers, to help farmers get the equipment they need quickly.

A tool that helps you buy and sell physical goods through a website, with no fees and no hidden fees.

A platform that helps advertisers to optimize the return on investment for their digital campaigns.

A company that helps you make sense of your data, from app to mobile to the cloud.

A platform that allows employees to make requests and see the process through to a resolution. The company helps employees make requests without having to ask their boss for a time-consuming process or leave a voice mail.

The startup is creating a toolkit for small businesses to help them create custom, optimized content for their marketing campaigns.

A new way to pay for things you buy online, with a twist: You can get discounts for paying with a certain amount of money.

A platform that helps universities and colleges reach international students, especially those who are shy or don’t speak English well. It helps them find the right person or organization to help them with anything they need while they’re there.

A social networking app for people eager to learn Spanish and get the most out of their language learning experience.

A startup targeting people with diabetes, to help them improve their quality of life by giving them medical advice and tools to manage diabetes.

A platform that allows people to choose the best time of day to start a workout, with a built-in coach to guide them through their workout session.

Predictive modeling technology that can help marketers understand where consumers are and what they’re interested in at any given time.

A company building a platform to make it easier for people to buy and sell homes that would integrate with CRMs and other sales tools.

Connecting LGBT people to the right health care professionals. The startup uses an algorithm to find the right care provider and hospital.

A well-known roboticist is building an open-source software platform to build robots.

A sales and marketing automation tool that gives salespeople a way to communicate with customers through email, chat, phone and social media. The company is also building a better CRM and lead management system.

A startup that’s building “a surgical robot that can perform minimally invasive surgeries,” with a price tag of $1 million.

A personal assistant that helps people save money.

This is a way to organize your personal finances without the hassle of a finance app. The company wants to be your “bank” that helps you save money.

A startup that helps retailers market to specific sections of their client base.

A chat-based budgeting tool that lets users instantly customize their budgets in real-time

Speakeasy allows businesses to communicate with their customers via SMS, email, or other messaging software.

A B2B SaaS startup that provides businesses with a single platform that helps them create and manage their customer communities (similar to Slack, but for customer service)

A startup using AI to help companies and individuals find the best price for everything from auto insurance to life insurance.

This startup is building a self-learning platform to help teach people the fundamentals of coding. The startup’s founders say that the product they have built is already powering over 20,000 students in 300 schools.

The company that makes the Tiny Guide app is building an app that will help the blind navigate the streets of cities. The app uses a combination of technology and human volunteer navigators to point out street names, traffic lights and other landmarks. It also is likely to be the first app to integrate with the Apple Watch.

A platform that connects people with products they don’t have, and can’t find through their own searching.

An AI that helps people review restaurants. The AI can be used for speed dating, by restaurants to review their guests’ faces, and for booking books at restaurants.

A startup that is building a “frictionless” way for people to pay for coffee via a smartphone.

A product for athletes that helps them train smarter and more effectively, using breathing exercises, temperature monitoring, and other data.

A platform for helping creative teams organize and track their work.

A platform for employers to share their job listings, allowing them to see which candidates are the right fit for the role.

An AI-powered chatbot that helps with financial planning. The startup wants to bring AI to the financial planning industry, which has historically been dominated by humans, who can be biased and inefficient.

A company that provides an in-app way to pay your bills directly from a credit card.

A live broadcast company for athletes and sports teams. The founders say they want to focus on live streams because of the way they’ve grown in the past few years. Their product is currently a free service, but the founders say they plan to add a paid service to compete with Facebook’s suite of sports and entertainment streams.

A web platform that lets people find out if their friends are coming to their local events as a way to get them to get more involved in the event.

A startup that uses AI to monitor the health of their customers and their products, helping them make better decisions and react faster to changes in the market.

A platform that helps you make never-ending, premium video content for your YouTube channel. It allows creators to generate content and not worry about the ad revenue.

The company was a Google product that made it easy to connect with people in nearby stores.

A startup that turns grocery shopping into an interactive game, where users can create and share grocery lists with friends.

Jeeves is a service that lets people reserve rooms on Airbnb, post photos, and chat with hosts. It’s currently running in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has plans to expand to New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

A platform for carpooling driven by carpool apps like Lyft.

A platform for insurance companies to create digital agents that allow users to book appointments, manage their policies, and access digital claim forms.

A startup that lets users search for random words and phrases to get a list of the most popular results.

A startup that makes a video game for teenagers in India that teaches them to read.

A startup for selling products across web and mobile channels.

A company that’s building a software-as-a-service platform for managing and optimizing the performance of IT infrastructure.

A company that helps people pay their bills, offering a more simple and affordable alternative to the existing systems that charge users too much money for complex and unneeded features.

A new way for producers of e-learning to add interactive content to their courses.

A tool that helps companies manage their contracts more effectively, by allowing them to track and manage contract negotiations and agreements in a central place.

This startup is building a tool to allow individuals to take back their personal data from Facebook.

A startup that’s making a hiring platform for tech startups, enabling companies to find qualified candidates quickly.

A medical device that helps to diagnose and treat people with various orthopedic and spinal disorders.

A software platform that allows people to buy and sell shares in companies for free or with as little as $5. The company is looking to compete with both traditional brokerages and stock exchanges like NASDAQ and the NYSE.

An in-app messaging service used between employees. The company says it has 150,000 employees in its network.

A platform that lets you manage your Facebook and Twitter accounts from a single app.

This is an online platform that helps you find a gym, track your fitness and training, and provides you with fitness training.

A startup that wants to build the “Netflix for streaming”. It runs a Netflix-like service for streaming videos, but with a more limited selection.

A social networking platform to help English learners learn English, and for native speakers to learn Spanish.

A startup that provides a service for people who are visiting a new city, to help them get a feel for the local culture

A tool designed to help restaurant employees track and manage tips. The startup builds a CRM for the restaurant employees that helps them manage and track tips and better understand their customers.

This is an online platform that helps you find a gym, track your fitness and training, and provides you with fitness training.

The company helps companies track and manage their “attitudes” and other forms of “emotions”.

In 2018, there were a total of 15 startups selected to participate in the program.

A way to gather data about local businesses, making it easier for customers to find local businesses and make them better known.

The following are notable U.S. venture capital firms that invest in or work with startups in the areas of healthcare:

A company that helps SMBs with business development, marketing, and sales, which it says is a $1 billion market in the US.

A web app that helps freelancers find and manage work from home jobs.

A tool that allows people to create their own digital currency, or “pre-sale tokens”, then sell them to investors. The startup’s founders say they’re already working with a handful of early-stage startups.

A digital network that connects American businesses and consumers with the same spending habits.

A company that helps companies incorporate as S-Corps. In October, the company raised $10 million in funding.

A digital rewards program for customers. Customers earn points for purchases, and then redeem them for prizes ranging from gift cards to gadgets and cash.

This startup has an app that helps people save for retirement. It’s a tool for people who haven’t had the time to prepare for retirement, but who are now approaching it.

A platform that helps small teams get paid for sharing their research and results with the world.

A software company that wants to enable your employees to do their jobs better.

The company wants to solve the startup funding process. They are currently in talks with investors.

A startup that keeps track of your spending, so you can make more budget-conscious decisions.

A company that connects customers with work from contractors and freelancers.

A tool that will help you build your own e-commerce site within minutes.

This startup aims to “make data science a core competency for all public and private enterprises”, offering software and infrastructure.

A new way of paying for groceries using a credit card, with the goal of helping people make healthier, more affordable choices.

The startup wants to build an automated system that enables retailers to deliver goods to consumers faster and more efficiently.

A dating app for “extraverts”.

A software company that aims to provide a suite of tools to help people avoid missing payments. It handles a lot of the back end for consumer finance companies, including student loans and credit cards.

A company that’s building software to assist with home inspections.

Transact is a platform that connects brands with fans via social media, allowing brands to target fans and offer rewards.

We’re used to hearing about billion dollar startups, but none are aiming to create a unique operating system to process data like this one. A startup that wants to entirely re-invent industry standards and create a new “standard” for data-driven industries like the medical industry.

The company is building a digital platform for credit risk assessment, which it says is significantly underutilized by banks.

A software company that helps create and manage custom e-commerce sites for brands.

A blockchain-based insurer that wants to give people a way to “secure financial services” and help them “build better credit and financial lives.”

The startup’s software helps companies create, share, and keep track of all the things they care about. The business has over 1,000 customers in the US, including Microsoft, American Express, and Google.

The company’s goal is to simplify the financial management of companies with their SaaS platform.

A startup that helps new employees get hired by talking to recruiters on behalf of the company without the new employee having to do the work. The startup has a 100% success rate so far.

This startup aims to connect students with instructors who can teach them what they’re interested in without requiring them to leave campus.

A text-to-speech app that converts text from your email into spoken words, making it easier to communicate through email.

A company that helps business owners “sell their soul”. The startup turns businesses into franchises, allowing them to sell their brand to others, who buy the rights to use it. The idea is that the founders of the business “sell” them to a network of franchisees who can make money off it.

A startup that helps small businesses in India build their websites, they were bootstrapped with seed funding from Y Combinator.

A tool for journalists to research and structure pitches and stories

In a market where the best products aren’t built by the likes of Facebook, Google, or Apple, but by startups that sell products in other places, AppBounty is trying to help startups get there. The startup’s “accelerator” provides startups with resources, mentoring, and a base of customers while they build and launch their products.

A tool for quick and easy content curation for B2B companies. The product includes a collection of templates and frames and functions for creating/publishing content on the platform.

A “reputation management” platform for companies with a significant number of negative comments, which helps them avoid negative feedback.

A digital agency that helps companies like Facebook, Google and Apple with communications needs in China. They launched around the same time as startups like Bird and Paper City.

A network of startups working together to build a new ecosystem around distributed ledger technology. The goal is to build a platform that spurs the creation of startups that can power an ecosystem built around blockchain.

This is a company that makes a "Budgeting for Beginners" app for parents, helping them get a handle on their bills and make a plan for the coming months.

The company offers a marketplace where people can sell their services, like a handyman or a babysitter, to help others with their projects.

Spectra is a startup that provides a platform for building better experiences for “heads-up displays” which are basically the tiny screens that are mounted on modern vehicles to display speed, navigation, and other information. It’s available on Android and iOS.

This staffing agency is looking to help its clients hire virtual assistants and project managers outside of their offices.

A startup that offers a service that alerts users when their online accounts are being hacked. The startup is currently in beta.

A startup trying to help iPhone users make in-store purchases without waiting in line

A search engine for small business loans.

A user-generated marketplace for project management tools, allowing companies to sell them to the public

The startup is building a new standard for what an API is. The company gathers data from over 20 APIs, then organizes it into a single, self-contained API.

A crowdfunding website with a different twist. Currently popular in the UK, the platform allows users to use online loans for funding instead of just credit cards.

A task scheduler that enables users to create “micro-tasks” that can be scheduled and completed at a time of their choosing.

A digital assistant that helps recruiters and hiring managers find and manage top talent. The startup is backed by Sound Ventures, the venture capital arm of Pandora, and is led by former Googler and Facebook executive David Fischer.

This startup is building a tool that designates specific parts of an app as “core”, “intermediate”, or “non-core”, which helps developers prioritize work and makes it easier to switch to a different language.

A video chat platform that allows users to have group chats with 1,000 people.

A startup that is building an app that allows people to pay their bills and get paid in one app. Currently in a private beta with a few thousand users.

A tool for managing the data on a small to medium sized business. It’s a white label product that is available to be customized by either a third party or a business owner.

A startup that makes it easier for companies to build, test, and deploy software. They have raised $8 million in funding from investors, including Y Combinator.

A company that seeks to use behavioral science, data and technology to help people with financial and entrepreneurial goals.

A “smart contract” system that allows you to automate payments, based off of Bitcoin.

A company that delivers dumplings on demand

A startup building a platform to let healthcare providers share data, allowing them to see what other services an individual is using and work with providers to maximize their use of services.

A “goliath of a credit company”, building a platform for managing, tracking, and distributing credit.

Open-source software to help companies track the life cycle of their products.

The company, founded by two former Facebook engineers, is building a way to take existing and upcoming blockchains and enable them to be built and used easily across different platforms.

An automated device for monitoring heavy construction sites.

A social network that helps you find like-minded people and discover things to do.

A legally binding contract between a party and a group of people that has a set of terms to comply with the contract. The company plans to build the first “legal” app in the US.

A startup that makes a shared, portable USB charger that’s small enough to fit in a wallet, but can still power smartphones and tablets.

A platform for linking and managing your personal and professional social networks.

Making payments easier for the unbanked, this startup says it is building a crypto-enabled, off-the-grid payment system that will let users send and receive money to their phones.

A startup that provides a platform for individuals to learn Chinese online, in an app, and receive individually tailored lessons.

One of the most popular ways to stay in touch with friends and family has to be through text messages. The company wants to build a texting platform that is both secured and private.

A company that builds a platform for employees to apply for and manage their own benefits. The service started out as a way for employees to manage their health benefits, but it is now being used by employers to manage everything from work-from-home policies, to retirement plans, to tuition reimbursement.

A B2B platform for companies to connect their business and HR systems.

The startup is building a platform that allows writers to create a book with a digital version of the book for readers to read for free.

A platform for selling products online, with a focus on fashion.

Helping companies in the legal industry to digitize and automate tasks that are currently done by hand, such as routine tasks like document searching and rights management.

A cheaper, more efficient way to distribute electricity. The startup wants to rewire the way we think about electricity, combining the best of blockchain and distributed computing.

The startup wants to show people the right stores in their area to buy virtual goods, like video games, virtual pets, and more.

A platform for financial advisors to manage their clients’ investments. The platform is intended to help advisors avoid mistakes often made by new advisors, and set up automatic investment reports.

Startup that wants to use AI and big data to help predict and prevent home fires.

This is a tool to help people make better decisions about their financial lives. The company wants to help people crunch and visualize financial data in order to make better decisions. Part of that is tracking their spending.

This startup directs users to the best cup of coffee within a 5-mile radius.

A startup that helps home and business owners find and book contractors and services (like plumbers and electricians) online.

A news app that provides video and text updates.

A suite of tools for managing contracts, from contracts to invoices, budgeting to payments.

A company that helps companies build a global presence for their products without having to hire overseas workers

A lightweight, mobile app that allows you to work with the same notes across your phone and desktop, allowing you to sync them all to your Google Drive account.

A startup from China that builds video games around a concept called “social finance” where the players make bets with their friends and the company that the outcome of the game will influence. For example, the company could build a game where the company that wins the bet could lobby for laws favorable to them.

An enterprise social network and HR software company in the Philippines. The startup hopes to help small and medium businesses get access to the kind of services large corporations have.

A robo-advisor for financial advice.

A VR toolkit for architects and designers, meant to help them visualize their ideas with 3D models. The company is also building a $250,000 grant for the most promising VR startups.

A team of developers that helps build smart, connected, and modular lighting systems.

A company that sells low cost digital cameras to students, aiming to help them improve their photography.

A monthly subscription service that helps users connect with potential customers and grow their businesses.

A smart card means to help improve the efficiency of the US transportation system for trucking, rail, and maritime transportation.

A social networking platform that lets photographers and videographers connect with other professionals on the same level as the people they’re hiring.

Provenance is a food tracking app, that has been billed as a startup that’s trying to get food to the same level of transparency as it has in other industries like banking or ride sharing. It’s a bit like the app Just Eat, but for food.

A cloud-based recruiting and staffing software company. The company has over $1,000,000 in revenue in 2019.

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WeWork is starting to look at providing a platform for its members to manage their finances on one platform.

A startup that wants to build a digital platform to help marketers make their ads more effective. The startup wants to make their platform the industry standard for delivering video ads.

A coworking space that offers a space to network and work, and the tools to help organize the work that’s done there. It’s designed to be a place for entrepreneurs and freelancers to meet up, work together, and eventually launch their own companies.

A mobile app for businesses that represent the next generation of mobile commerce. The startup built a platform for Facebook to build its Messenger platform into businesses, and has 10,000 businesses using it.

A startup that allows companies to build a DIY system for payments, offering a free turnkey solution that can be built quickly and inexpensively.

A SaaS company that connects crowdfunding and equity investors.

A product management software for manufacturers that allows them to apply customer feedback and improve their products.

A startup that wants to build a platform for managing and organizing your entire digital life. It’s a way to keep things organized on all your devices, including a “calendar of everything” that can be accessed from any device.

Philadelphia has a long history of technological innovation in the medical and engineering fields.

A tool for helping people manage their families’ electric bills.

A personal finance management tool for young entrepreneurs. It helps users track their net worth, investments, and expenses, and is compatible with any financial product.

This startup that makes a “virtual shared workspace”.

A software company that creates tools for mobile developers to help them make the most of their device and resources.

idea: A startup for professional freelance writers to sell their work.

A startup that’s helping small businesses in the US automate payroll and create financial reporting with minimal cost. The company is now focusing on being a one-stop shop for small businesses.

A startup that connects users with local businesses, so they can find services and goods to buy and use. It also generates revenue by helping consumers save money on things like groceries, dry cleaning, and layaway.

Idea: A startup that works with companies to help them identify issues with their data and improve their data science

A startup that has built a platform that converts paper-based resumes into digital versions that can easily be shared via email.

A startup so people can get their next oil change, tune up, or tire rotation delivered to their home via the internet.

A startup that is building a toolkit meant to help companies develop applications for the web, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.

This startup helps you create a custom, personalized social media account. Their first customers are people looking to save money on their LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.

An automated process for finding and blocking bad reviews on Amazon.

A startup that wants to bring machine learning to the world of financial trading, using advanced computer vision and AI to help traders make better investment decisions. It's raised $3.4 million to date from investors like GV and Flatiron.

A medical service that connects doctors with patients online, and lets patients communicate with the doctors without the need for an in-person visit.

An API that helps companies that are not Amazon Prime members see how much they spend on Prime every month.

A tool that helps identify the people that need to be at a meeting, and the people who are already there.

A B2B marketplace for buying and selling financial instruments. The company charges a fee per trade, with a minimum trade amount of $75.

A sales automation product that claims to help account executives automate the entire sales process.

This company is building a more efficient way to design and build websites. The startup wants to make it easier for people to create websites with a more feature-rich platform.

A digital payments startup that provides instant transfers for payment services like Venmo and Zelle.

A parking app that uses remote parking sensors to find available parking for drivers.

A digital media studio that helps brands create top-quality videos by combining story-telling and media technology. The startup is looking to create a platform that is easy for people to use, allowing for professional-level video production at a minimal cost.

A remote brain-computer interface startup, which claims to be cheaper, faster, and more accurate than existing solutions.

The founders at this startup want to help restaurant owners around the US increase sales and profits for their businesses.

A company that makes whiskey-inspired food and drink, with the goal of bringing new flavors to the market.

A software company that builds apps for Slack teams, adding features like the ability to share Google Drive documents, integrate with Giphy for GIF sharing, and add pre-built templates to your channels.

A startup that wants to make it easy for people to own and operate an electric car, like a Tesla, without having to buy one, and it wants to be like a car sharing service, but for cars.

A startup to monitor and manage small businesses and their expenses. The company operates in the UK, France, and Switzerland, and is currently in the process of expanding to the US.

A platform for delivering and managing legal documents, including contracts and leases. The company is backed by Intel Capital, who is helping to build a global legal technology platform that uses the blockchain.

A digital marketer that helps improve the customer experience of hospitality companies.

A tool for the agriculture industry (including farmers) to manage products, expenses, and profit on a day-to-day basis. The startup is working with farms to improve efficiency.

A “voice-controlled assistant” meant to be the next iteration of Amazon Echo, but with a focus on controlling lights and other in-home devices.

A payments startup that helps users receive payments from other users via credit or debit cards without sharing banking information.

A startup that helps you find and replace a specific piece of music in your Spotify library.

A credit card designed to help people who don’t qualify for the best cards.

An AI-driven coaching platform helping companies hire the right people for the right job.

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

This startup is building a website that allows anyone to instantly and securely order a custom-made suit from a fabric designer.

This is a software platform that helps real estate agents and landlords manage their properties. The startup is already operating in several markets, with plans to expand globally.

A restaurant-booking app that pairs with your favorite restaurant so you can just look at the menu and book a table. The company has raised $1.3M to date.

The app helps find the cheapest gas station in a given area. The service is built on the idea that gas is perishable, and stations need to be re-stocked as often as possible.

A CTO of a small company of 3 people, looking to hire an artist or designer or developer.

A digital lender that allows small businesses to get loans in just a few minutes, with no paperwork.

A chatbot that’s meant to help people with social anxiety, and help them practice conversations they want to have in real life.

A startup that encourages users to share their photos with friends and family to help them get the best possible shots for their photos. The startup uses AI to match up photos.

This is a new service that helps people hire virtual assistants to do their work and manage their tasks.

A payment app that allows users to scan QR codes with the phone’s camera and pay the bill with a single click.

A platform to better manage customers’ data, giving companies the ability to see and share data with customers, anonymize data and share it with third parties, collect data streams to offer rebates, and more.

A tool for people to easily review and edit their credit scores.

A tool that allows companies to manage their expenses, assets, etc. in a single place.

This startup is building a tool that combines Siri and Google Assistant to create a more human-like voice experience.

A new startup that makes your living room into a “smart home”, with smart lighting, connected appliances, and smart security cameras.

A digital agency for large brands that wants to help them become more agile.

This startup is building a cloud-based service that allows small businesses to send invoices and manage their accounting in one place. It’s in beta and doesn’t have any revenue yet.

The company is a platform that provides a ‘mobile-first’ shopping experience. The startup wants to become a one-stop shop for all shopping needs.

An on-demand courier service that works with local companies to help them deliver their goods.

A way to share inventory with nearby retailers, allowing them to buy and sell in a frictionless way.

A professional recruitment platform for people who want to work from home. The startup is currently in YC, but is still raising funds.

In the past year some over 500 new startups have launched in Seattle’s startup scene and the number of new startups in the city has increased by a factor of 10 since 2013. We’ll be looking at some of the most exciting startups in the city in the coming weeks.

A way for companies to pay the bills of their employees in multiple currencies, with higher rates for those who live in the area.

A company that provides an API that lets other companies and developers integrate their tools with the start-up’s platform.

Idea: A platform for companies to manage their remote, international teams The startup’s main pitch is that its software serves as a better replacement for tools like Slack

A startup that makes a “Beep” that helps you guess what the answer to a math problem is by giving you a BEEP in the ear.

A platform for investors to find and share private networks of local investors, also for a fee.

This startup helps agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement track people in their databases by sending them a text message.

A company that helps companies be more efficient and cost-effective

This startup wants to help people manage their finances through a simple, smart, and mobile-friendly interface. It has raised $1.3 million to date.

A startup to help you remember what you need to do and when you need to do it.

A startup that allows users to “apply to be on a team of people who solve enterprise problems and drive innovation and product development.”

A company that creates a line of high-end electric scooters for use in urban areas, no motorcycle license required.

A startup that helps people understand their credit score and how to use it to their advantage

A startup that pairs job seekers with employers and arranges interviews, enabling the hiring process to happen without the hassle of having to deal with recruiters.

A software platform that allows companies to manage their energy consumption and reduce energy bills. The company says it has $5.5M in seed funding, with a $1M Series A round in the works.

A platform that enables fans to interact with players and teams to better understand their interests. The startup is currently in a partnership with the NBA; it’s also in a partnership with the A’s to help fans in the Bay Area get better access to the team.

A startup that helps users book appointments with doctors by letting them send a photo of a medical issue and then wait for a diagnosis or treatment recommendation.

Unexpected startup success, the founders say it has grown from $8 million in sales in Q1 2018 to $7 million in Q3 2018 and $7 million in Q4 2018.

A tool that helps freelancers find work, with tools for payment, contracts, and invoices.

A chatbot for your shopping list.

A blockchain-based trading platform for digital currencies.

E-learning platform that’s focused on helping new parents learn how to take care of their baby.

An on-demand app for freelance freelance designers.

Gist is a startup that helps athletes improve their performance by tracking their workouts and then, through a series of video lessons, helping them to apply that information.

A software platform for automotive dealers to manage their inventory and sales. It tracks cars, drivers and rental cars.

A startup that wants to make it easier to test out new software—and then provide feedback from customers

A supply chain startup that helps retailers buy in bulk and sell to consumers at a lower price

A tool for large companies who want to take a more strategic approach to their marketing spend.

The company is building a software platform for service professionals to manage meetings and meetings proposals.

This company markets what it calls a "virtual assistant" to serve restaurant owners. The software helps manage the workflow of ordering, food prep, and more, allowing cashiers to focus on other tasks. The startup has raised $400,000 in funding to date.

A platform that will allow users to access their credit scores and other financial information, whether or not they’re currently signed up with a bank.

A company that wants to bring real estate into the cloud, redesigning the way we do things like list homes for sale and track listings.

A mobile app and web-based platform that simplifies the process of building and managing a digital strategy for marketing and sales.

The company that makes the app for all students to be able to learn about, organize and access their purchasing power.

A startup that provides a service for people who want to lose a few pounds (they find a meal plan for them and help them stick to it)

A startup that allows companies to create “virtual” websites that provide marketing solutions to potential customers.

This platform helps tech companies that would like to sell software as a service (SaaS) to clients. The platform allows for businesses to reach their clients directly, and also helps them understand how much money their clients are spending on software.

A tool for companies to better understand their large customer base and build better products.

A similar service to Slack for teams working from home

The startup is building a system that will allow companies to use the power of artificial intelligence to detect fraud. The company is currently in private beta and just closed a $1.2 million seed round, led by Nautilus Ventures.

A startup whose product is a service that "lets users create an avatar for their email addresses It then uses that avatar to send email" The startup launched in October 2018 and received a seed round of $17M in February 2019

A platform to sell and rent digital products like DRM-free e-books, games, and software.

A startup that generates business data for marketing just in time for the holiday season.

A software tool that helps teach users how to speak different languages. The startup has a software suite and is also building devices for more immersion, like games and software with interactive bubble displays.

A business that is using blockchain to help eliminate the need for third-party services.

A startup that helps people book medical appointments using their driver’s license information, which is usually tied to a credit card.

This is a carpooling service for drivers looking to save money on gas and time. It’s also a way for drivers to find fares for ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, as long as they’re willing to take a longer drive.

A startup for small businesses to receive automated reminders for appointments and other tasks, built on top of Zapier.

A startup that allows companies to deliver a customer service experience that is both efficient and personable. The startup is a spinoff of a company called Customer.io, where the founders had to implement a customer service software for a customer support company.

A startup that promises to be the next Uber for the taxi industry. Instead of incentivizing drivers by paying them directly, they’ll pay the driver’s customer base.

College employment data is hard to get, and many prospective students are unaware of job-seeking opportunities in their region.

The company is interested in building a new type of crowdfunding platform for businesses and non-profits.

A tool for the agriculture industry (including farmers) to manage products, expenses, and profit on a day-to-day basis. The startup is working with farms to improve efficiency.

A startup that helps developers get a better return on their capital and provide an efficient way to build products.

A startup for cosmetics, where people can list and manage their inventory.

A wellness tool for people with mental health issues to track their symptoms and stay on top of things. The startup is backed by Outcome Health, the company behind enterprise wellness company Medical Health Network.

The Summer 2018 batch of startups included 15 companies, including:

A company building a platform for e-commerce fulfillment services

A SaaS company that connects crowdfunding and equity investors.

An AI-powered search engine that learns from your searches to create personalized content. It’s meant to serve as a search engine for all things like local events, weather, news, and sports, with a focus on the “people-centric” aspects of the internet.

The company’s goal is to be the most socially responsible fashion platform on the web. “We’re like the Etsy for buying sustainable products,” says CEO Rami.

A startup based out of Israel that’s building an online platform to help people with their homework.

This startup wants to help fintech companies get a handle on their data, making it easier to crunch numbers and more effective for the startup to explore new markets.

A platform that lets retailers choose which products they want to sell, curate them on the Amazon-like site, and then set the pricing, shipping, and other options. The idea is to help retailers manage their supply chain, rather than having to manage every item by hand.

A startup that builds smart toilets to help reduce human waste in developing nations.

A global marketplace for selling products, services, and experiences in digital currencies

GoPayroll is a payroll software platform that allows small businesses to self-fund their payroll. The company is also building a freelance marketplace.

This is a company that has done a lot of research on the best way to get a message across to people in different places. They decided that one of the best ways was to create a system that is both language and location-agnostic, and designed to be culturally sensitive. They’ve put that system to work for a variety of companies, including a hotel chain, a coffee company, and a plastic surgery center.

A startup that helps companies find financing for trade shows, starting with the idea that the more you finance the show, the more you sell, and the more you sell, the more you can finance it.

A health app that tracks patients’ movements and health levels, using the app’s own sensor suite, and sends alerts when a patient’s condition requires immediate attention.

Customize your videos and podcasts with a beautiful, easy-to-use video editor. It’s a video editing app built for the modern mobile user.

A startup that delivers food and groceries to people who are at home, not just those who can actually cook.

A tool to help employees track, prioritize, and keep track of their progress at work, and track their performance with a visual dashboard. The startup aims to “help make the invisible visible” by keeping track of what employees are doing, who they are doing it for, and how they are doing it.

A marketing agency for companies that want to engage with their customers in new ways. The startup is currently in Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 batch.

A startup that wants to build an “e-commerce-optimized website for business owners”. It’s currently in the midst of its ICO.

They help connect foreign workers with U.S. companies in the manufacturing industry. Their platform helps companies with the process of hiring foreign workers after they’ve arrived in the U.S.

A platform that allows people to make their own films, with courses and software to help them make their own learning videos.

A digital identity service for entrepreneurs that allows them to use their own data to establish credibility, avoid identity fraud, and manage their reputation.

A startup that helps journalists publish content without going through Facebook’s “disengagement” process

A B2B company that helps companies understand their supply chain data and make it actionable.

An artisanal facial scrub for your face, which promises to give you a "clean, clear, and healthy complexion."

A minimum viable product, aimed at early adopters with a small budget

A company that helps companies handle a wide array of different things from HR functions to compliance.

This startup is building a software suite that integrates field data with information and insights that can be used to make better business decisions.

A platform that helps high net worth individuals grow their assets.

A company that has built a platform that brings together data from the likes of your Fitbit, Google Fit or Apple Health.

A market for the world’s farmers, specifically those who want to start selling their excess produce in bulk.

A company that makes it easier to create interactive dashboards and reporting for finance teams.

A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program that provides customers with weekly deliveries of fresh produce and other items from local farmers. Customers pay for their weekly deliveries of local fruits and vegetables through a subscription model.

A platform for the sharing economy, where a person can rent out their car, boat, or bicycle.

This startup is building a software tool that helps companies manage their vendors and get paid faster. Vendors are paid on a monthly basis and have access to invoicing and reporting tools.

A web-based platform that helps users navigate and communicate with their healthcare providers.

A private-label membership-based platform that lets users pay to upgrade their access to health-related content.

This startup wants to replace the traditional broker model with a commission-free, network-based system that brings together buyers and sellers. The startup says it already has several dozen clients.

A digital credit card designed to help people pay for things by charging a small amount each time they use it.

A startup that pays you in cash or Bitcoin when you take a picture of your receipt.

In October 2014, The Wall Street Journal ranked the Philadelphia area as the top city in America for startups.

A company building a service to help Chinese tourists find the right place to go on vacation.

A cloud service provider for banks that helps them make better decisions on lending.

A new payments company, which provides its own service for quick and easy vendor management, and then allows companies to integrate the service into their own payment processes.

A Facebook-like chat app for gamers

An algorithmic startup that is a marketplace for job board ads, allowing companies to target their job search to a specific demographic. The company’s founders say they’ve raised $1.6 million in a round led by Greycroft Partners.

A platform that helps the 500,000 companies around the world with their live events. It helps them find, book and pay for speaking engagements, build an event calendar, and create a speaker’s profile for their attendees.

A startup that wants to use blockchain to ensure that doctors and patients can be sure that the products they buy, from vitamins to birth control, are the real thing.

Tired of paying hefty overdraft fees, this startup wants to make banks obsolete and hand them over to their customers, who can then pay bills and get cash advances directly from their bank accounts.

A startup that helps people grow their savings faster by personalizing their savings plans with their unique spending habits.

A series of privacy tools that’s meant to help people identify and fix security risks

The product of the Design Accelerator, this startup is building a tool to help people visualize their finances.

A collaboration platform that helps data scientists work together better. This business has more than $1 million in funding in both seed and Series A rounds.

An online marketplace that allows users to auction off their unused stuff on the platform, either as a one-time donation or a recurring monthly subscription.

“a mobile software application that enables users to create, manage and share their virtual avatar, and communicate with others through text, voice and video”.

A more intelligent email client. The startup says it will target the enterprise market with a suite of better email functions.

1794: A British East India Company trading vessel, the "Phoenix"

A library of over 1,700 video lectures for developers on the entire set of AWS services.

A product design company that helps companies create and launch products. The startup has a built-in digital product studio.

The startup helps businesses build mobile apps by hiring a team of in-house Android developers. It is also a marketplace for Android developers.

A startup for real-time bidding on freelance tasks.

The startup wants to turn to-do list apps into more of a “next action” list, replacing the need for a separate todo list app.

A company that enables the comparison of the quality and cost of different, local delivery services.

A data-driven platform for B2B businesses looking to make smarter hiring decisions. The company says they have over 10,000 customers, including YC partner Stripe.

A platform for managing HR tasks like time tracking, attendance, and budgeting.

A startup that provides health insurance by matching employers with employees to help mitigate the financial risk of employees with pre-existing conditions.

An API that helps companies that are not Amazon Prime members see how much they spend on Prime every month.

A startup that has crowdfunded a device that translates the physical world into digital code

Idea: A programmable hardware add-on for Raspberry Pi

This company uses algorithms to predict what things you like based on your online browsing history and then matches you with like-minded people for future purchases.

An online marketplace for local service providers. The startup wants to help small businesses advertise their services and reach new customers.

A startup that aims to make it easier for companies to manage the hiring process. The company’s first product allows companies to post job openings, then when a candidate applies, the company can review the application, send interview offers, and conduct interviews all in one place.

A startup that helps you find the best time to book a flight, and what time of day is the best for planes to be available

The startup will deliver custom-made soundtracks to the home, so you can listen to it in your own car, or at work.

A maker of electric vehicles, battery packs, and software for charging and fueling stations.

A smartphone application for school counselors to help parents enroll their kids in schools and to facilitate communication between parents and school counselors.

There are two ways to get around the city. The first is the conventional private vehicle. The second is a bicycle. EcoBike wants to connect users to their bicycles via apps, and provide a software platform to allow the bikes to talk to each other.

A company that aims to make it easier for businesses to help their customers with their tasks on collaboration platforms.

Azumio is building a device that allows companies to manage employees’ phones with just a few swipes. The startup is currently focused on managing Apple users but is working on expanding to Android and Windows.

A tool for visually describing code. It’s a new way to describe code and help developers figure out what they want to do with their code.

A startup that offers mobile phone repair at its storefronts, with the first location opening in June 2015. The company says that most of its repairs cost $70, but that it can return a phone to a customer for free if it doesn’t work.

A startup that provides a service where parents in China can pay to have someone with a degree in education check their kid’s homework

A company that helps online businesses with online marketing by targeting their customers with specific video ads and other creative content

“A cross between LinkedIn and Twitter”, used by businesses to post job listings and engage with employees.

An AI-powered search engine that learns from your searches to create personalized content. It’s meant to serve as a search engine for all things like local events, weather, news, and sports, with a focus on the “people-centric” aspects of the internet.

A startup for finding and scheduling contractors.

A company that analyzes financial transaction data and helps companies reduce fraud, waste and money-losing deals.

A company that provides global data analysts with insights into consumer trends in real time. The startup is growing its team and expanding globally. It has raised $2 million to date from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and CrunchFund. It will be based in San Francisco.

One of the first companies to offer a loan feature on Facebook.

A startup that helps large companies switch to paperless invoicing and build a digital workflow to track their expenses and expenses of their vendors.

An educational tool to help students with homework. The startup aims to make the process of learning more engaging and fun.

Building a platform that lets users to buy and sell home goods via a marketplace. The startup has already secured a partnership with the Indigo chain of bookstores, and is looking to launch in New York City soon.

A product design studio that helps brands create more appealing products. They’re currently focused on a few brands, but plan to branch out.

A startup aiming to compete with Uber drivers by letting the public order rides the same way they order food.

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A simple app that lets you order a car from a ride-sharing company without ever leaving the app.

Instead of having to buy an expensive hardware device to measure your blood pressure, they’re going to come out with a $10 smartphone app that works off of a few sensors. The startup aims to reduce the cost of healthcare by getting more people to use the device.

A startup building an AI-driven virtual assistant that aims to make hiring and firing employees just as easy as firing a drone.

A startup that’s building out a way to help small businesses get financing, and which is already working with small businesses like a local coffee shop.

Built a mobile app that allows people in India to send money to family across state lines.

A startup focused on designing better medical devices for uteruses, ovaries, and other organs.

puts a centralized home for app developers that helps them store code, manage apps and track their performance, and submit them to app stores.

A startup that helps small businesses with insurance. They’re working on their first product in the US, called “Bundle”.

A platform that helps match patients with doctors who have the same medical conditions. The startup wants to completely automate the process of matching patients with doctors.

A software company that uses AI to predict your monthly credit card payments, based on your current spending.

A “social network for bikers” looking to expand to Brazil.

A platform for selling products on Facebook, with revenue split between the user and the company.

This is an API for food service companies. It allows them to track how much each employee is eating and drinking.

A startup that wants to help retailers work more efficiently and make it easier for customers to browse products online.

A program for non-profits to get funding from investors.

The startup wants to build a kind of digital scrapbook for co-pilots, allowing them to share photos and stories from their flights.

A company hoping to make it easier for companies to own and manage their IP, bringing a digital licensing alternative to the enterprise. The company is based in NYC, has raised $1.5 million, and is looking to use the funding to expand.

A startup that builds a resume-like software that helps people apply to jobs.

The idea is to provide a home base for travelers, since many are uncomfortable with the idea of being fenced in.

This startup aims to make a hiring tool that is “instantly accessible and easy to use” that can “make every hire the right hire”. They have 1,000 happy customers and are profitable.

A platform for connecting people to their favorite foods, which will help people find new foods they might like. The startup’s developers have been known to check out new restaurants and talk to restaurant workers to understand the space.

A startup that helps people get their kids into top schools. The startup connects students with their dream colleges and helps guide them through each step of the application process.

A startup that wants to help people save the cost of a cell phone plan by letting them bring their own phone, and set it up to work on their carrier’s network.

A product that helps households store water, power, and food for a disaster.

The company is building a platform that uses algorithms to make it easier for people to syndicate their content across the web, connecting creators to publishers.

The startup aims to replace the outdated process of manually sending invoices to clients with an automated process that allows clients to request more information to either pay or dispute an invoice.

A platform that monetizes the unused power of Wi-Fi routers, allowing companies to sell it back to the public, or use it to create their own Internet service.

A company that builds the “Airbnb for internships”, connecting students with companies looking for summer interns. It’s a platform that allows both internships to be created and offers a marketplace for applications.

A SaaS app that helps properties manage their energy usage. The company says that their software helps to reduce energy costs by 2%-5% for landlords.

This startup is building AI chat bots, which they say are better at gaining customer data than human customer service reps.

A company providing a free online platform for live music, planning concerts, selling tickets, and collecting royalties.

A new email app that is an email fanfiction generator.

Idea: This startup is building a way to automate your Reddit account, scheduling posts and comments to subreddits to help get your articles shared more widely.

A self-serving AI bot that will learn how to cook its own meal.

A way to help people find and sell good-quality used phones and tablets.

A way to collect feedback from customers in the US, with plans to expand to Canada.

A company that provides a platform for customers to rate and review products on their phones, without having to go to a store.

The startup wants to build a marketplace that connects brands and consumers based on what they want and need. They’re thinking of it as a sort of Amazon for branded products.

A startup that makes a kit for making kombucha at home You can buy a kit with all the supplies you need to make kombucha plus a starter batch of the brew

Fintech company in the Philippines that’s providing a digital payment platform for micro-enterprises and other small businesses.

A social network for people to share and discover what’s new in their city.

A startup that brings financial advisor services to the remote workforce, giving workers access to virtual advisors 24/7.

An online marketplace for e-commerce merchants to sell their products and services in bulk. The startup is currently focused on the US, but has plans to expand internationally.

A startup that creates custom-made and personalized rewards for customers, in this case for employees and customers of a company.

A platform that lets freelancers buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act, then pay monthly premiums that are deducted from their paychecks.

A platform that helps HR managers manage their workday, including scheduling, managing tasks, and social networking.

A tool for helping employees find and buy employees gifts.

A startup that makes car rentals cheaper and more flexible

A “food-delivery-as-a-service” startup that has launched in LA, San Francisco and New York. It’s a Web-based ordering system for restaurant kitchens, letting them order food for pickup or delivery and track delivery times.

A cloud-based platform that allows retailers to create a “bundle” of products that are available for the same price as a single product, offering better margins for buyers on multiple products.

A team of people that builds software for and with the help of the general public (readers, writers and other types of creators). Its first product was a book, "", which won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Best Nonfiction.

A mobile app that allows users to import and track the use of their credit cards across a variety of other apps. The startup will enter a partnership with the Bank of America this year.

A “social network for soccer fans”, with a goal of 1.5 million registered members by the end of 2019. The startup wants to give soccer fans a place to interact, share stories, create and follow clubs, teams, players and other personalities.

The company's app is designed to help consumers monitor the health of their finances, including credit scores, debt and income. The application, which is in beta, is available for Android and Apple iOS smartphones.

Idea: A mobile app for first aid responders, allowing them to better coordinate in the field. The app has a fast search capability, letting responders easily find supplies and guides.

A startup that’s building a platform for independent contractors to receive and pay invoices.

A company that sells an app that helps you make money off of your unused phone storage.

A startup that’s building a new kind of personal assistant for teams. The idea is to provide your team with a single digital assistant that works for all of your teams, rather than having to sign up to your company’s app and having to use apps separately.

A startup that uses machine learning to automatically detect customer problems and provide a solution to companies in the form of automated recommendations.

This is an AI-powered service for finding the cheapest flights online. The startup currently boasts over 1 million users, and has built a complex machine learning model that it says can find you the cheapest flights.

A startup meant to help people find the best rates on apartments, vacation homes, services and more.

Idea: A web app that predicts the next card in a Magic: The Gathering game The startup raised $35 million in venture capital and says they have 120,000 active users

A platform that helps you create a “virtual assistant” to book tickets and manage your schedule.

A web development tool for anyone who works with text, whether in a word processing program like Microsoft Word, or with a code editor. The startup wants to help programmers work faster, and without the headache of formatting text or maintaining multiple code windows.

A company that provides a micro-insurance product for students to cover important expenses.

a company that creates a virtual office environment on demand, and has a reputation system.

A startup that’s building a platform for drug discovery companies to more easily interact with clinical trial sites.

A startup that can be used by anyone to manage their subscriptions to dozens of different services, including places like Netflix and Spotify.

A company that helps people in the US get discounts, gifts, and discounts on their prescriptions. It’s currently for people with high-deductible insurance plans.

Idea: An AI voice assistant that listens to you at work and helps you organize your day, from setting reminders to adding appointments to your calendar.

A startup building a cloud-based platform for businesses to manage their supply chains. The company, based in Tel Aviv, has already built a platform for 14 companies and is now expanding.

This startup wants to build “a new form of healthcare,” specifically for elderly people in the US. The startup has already raised $14 million in funding.

A tool for tracking and sharing the status of social media pages.

A small-business lender that offers flexible loans, designed for individuals with $20,000 to $150,000 in assets.

A biometric authentication system that uses your face, fingerprints, or voice to log into a service.

A startup that asks the question “What does it feel like to be a doctor”. It turns physicians into training robots that can read vitals, progress through patient history, and do the doctor interface.

A company that develops and sells a line of “smart windows”, windows that can monitor and adjust to changing weather and other environmental conditions to maximize comfort and energy efficiency.

The startup wants to give users a way to connect with other users in their personal or professional networks. The company says they’re currently in the early stages of development and looking for partners to help test their platform.

A startup that’s building a platform to allow users to create their own custom-engineered blocks on a 3D printer. Those blocks can be used to construct robot arms, medical devices, and other tools.

This startup wants to bring the idea of a “robo-advisor” to retirement planning.

A startup in the payments space that is building a toolset for merchants to easily accept card payments through mobile and web channels.

The app helps users find the best place to work based on hours, location, and specialized skills.

A startup that wants to make the process of app development faster and easier by providing the tools, materials, and process they use to build apps.

A startup that will take any video and allow its creators to port it to any of the top 30 mobile phone manufacturers, using a digital-rights-management-free model. The company has already built an app that allows anyone to convert any video to any phone.

A software company that makes it easier to train learning machines. The company is building an “AI-powered note taking” system for students.

This is a service for selling cheap tickets to events, it’s a cheaper alternative to Stubhub.

A tool that helps e-commerce businesses connect to their social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, to allow customers to communicate with them via posting comments on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

A company that helps employees get paid even if their company is out of money. A startup called Yieldbot essentially acts as a middle man between companies and their employees.

This startup is building a new kind of network for startups, one that allows them to share their financial data, such as their expenses, with other investors. In the past six months, the startup has raised $3 million from investors.

A platform for managing and tracking your fitness routines, with insights about your progress and goals

A startup that’s building an open-source driver for Android Nougat devices, allowing Android 6.0 users to get the performance benefits of the new chip.

A mobile app that lets you pay for groceries at the cash register using an Android phone, without having to leave the store or wait in line.

A solution for people who don’t have easy access to email, with email as an optional extra. The platform allows people to manage email by using a calendar app.

A blockchain-based peer-to-peer lending platform to help women access micro-lending.

A startup building a fitness tracker for people who want a fitness tracker to use with their existing Fitbit.

A startup that uses machine learning to provide personalized recommendations and content to customers.

With the help of The Next Web, Recruiterbox has raised $3.5 million to date.

A code library that makes it easier to build React Native apps, as opposed to the traditional NativeScript process that requires developers to learn a new framework.

A tool that enables anyone to set up a crowdfunding campaign for their startup or product.

A full stack “platform for the modern home” that allows users to control all of their devices from one dashboard. It connects to Nest, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant.

A tool that streamlines how companies and governments can track and monitor their employees' data and activities through their devices.

A startup where you can buy used tablet computers from big retailers like Best Buy and Staples.

A digital loyalty program for big-box retailers. The startup is building a rewards program for floor-based retailers like BestBuy.

This is a content delivery network for micro-documentaries. The startup is working with the National Science Foundation to create a video library for scientists.

A startup for enterprise SaaS.

A startup that helps companies implement negative pressure ventilation (NVP) systems.

A real estate data platform that helps agents with appraisal and valuation data.

A company that helps companies create software that allows them to sell more online while keeping their costs down.

A platform for sellers to manage their Amazon selling business, helping them to follow the rules of Amazon.com, and get paid on time.

This startup is looking to bring the Uber experience to grocery shopping.

A shopping platform that’s a hybrid between Amazon and Alibaba. The company is looking to expand, with a particular focus on India, South America, and Asia.

A platform for online courses for individual learners (no classes in physical space). Their focus is on a membership-based model, in which users can access a library of content for a fee.

A company that develops web applications for businesses, such as e-commerce platforms or online store builders.

A platform that combines an online store with a membership club

A startup that allows people to make money by selling their used items, such as clothes, furniture, and books, through an online platform.

This startup is building a social network for doctors and patients to share experiences and track how a patient is doing on a particular ailment.

A startup that uses an algorithm to match companies to engineers based on their degree of difficulty.

A platform for building chatbots that is meant to be used for enterprise-level business.

Prim is a content management system for people who want to manage their own, personal website. It’s similar to WordPress and Squarespace, but offers more options for branding, like colors and fonts. The startup has 20K users, but it’s not yet making any revenue.

A new kind of digital currency for the healthcare industry. It’s aimed at allowing treatment plans to be set up for a patient, which can be adjusted at a later date based on their progress.

A startup that sells books about how to perform artsy activities

A startup that is creating a new kind of health plan, one that requires patients to take more responsibility for their health, such as being responsible for increasing their vitamin intake.

This startup is building a tool that helps small businesses create and manage their own marketing campaigns. It’s called “marketing automation” and helps businesses automate the creation of emails, landing pages, and other marketing materials.

A real estate investment trust that owns and develops real estate through its subsidiaries.

A platform that lets freelancers buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act, then pay monthly premiums that are deducted from their paychecks.

A coffee-making company that wants to be the Amazon of coffee. The company is already in the Philippines and the US, and is looking to expand to Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

They are building a website for buying and selling used cars in the US that allows users to create and manage a car listing. They also have an app for users to find cars for sale (which they claim would be the first app of its kind to gain Apple approval.)

A startup that provides real-time feedback to software developers on their work.

A taxi hailing app for the Philippines. The startup hopes to reduce the time it takes for drivers to pick up passengers

A startup that aggregates stories from news outlets and allows users to comment on them.

A startup that allows you to create your own cryptocurrency wallet, taking a portion of the transaction fees to keep the site running.

A startup that helps companies like Redfin, Realtor.com, and Zillow make money by selling their unused space like an online co-working space.

An automated voice tool for salespeople to quickly respond to customer emails.

A company that wants to make the retail supply chain more efficient by using AI to optimize shipping times and routes, and then selling the services of those optimized routes to other retailers.

A micro-investment service that allows users to invest in the stocks of companies they follow, with the startup providing the “platform and tokenized security”.

Employers can access a single dashboard to track their employee’s performance. Performance is measured across different channels, including time spent at work, friend requests, and the effectiveness of their social media presence.

Feeding your dog food that’s nutritionally sound, but it doesn’t look like dog food.

A startup that will buy your old TV sets, build them into solar-powered generators, and then resell them to people in Africa who need power.

A platform that connects businesses with the communities that surround them, allowing them to connect with their local customers, suppliers, and employees.

A tool to help employers and HR teams manage the onboarding and training of new employees.

A tool for helping people with heavy lifting and other manual labor jobs.

Wired Magazine has a list of the top startups to watch in 2016, including three from India (Tango, Farmako, and Minimum) and two from the US (Clew and Zuddl)

A tool that helps users manage and make sense of their data, and act on it more effectively.

A venture that is building a platform for managing insurance claims across the United States.

A startup that goes into the cloud and allows users to connect their social networks to their online books to create a page that helps people find each other.

A platform for people to connect, share and discover the hidden world of hiking, backpacking, and camping.

an online tool that lets you keep track of your credit card, debit card, and bank account charges (and where they go, who they go to)

A home security platform that uses facial recognition to let users see who is at the door, even when the doorbell isn’t ringing.

A company that makes a product for finding people to copycats, who then work for the company as independent contractors.

Aimed at helping remote workers manage their time, work from anywhere, and be paid fairly for it. The startup is currently working with a large telecom company to make it easier for them to manage their time.

A startup that provides a service where people can get a virtual assistant to do anything they want online

Builds on the Chariot ride-hailing app for major cities in North America. The company says it’s adding more and more supply every day.

An advertising platform that works to make ad buying more transparent and transparent, with a focus on helping advertisers make more informed decisions.

A platform for managing and tracking mobile devices, primarily using Python.

The founders of this startup are best known for building the most popular and successful startup accelerator in the world. They’re now moving into a new area, with a new accelerator format that’s aimed at helping teams build products for specific industries.

A company that uses the power of crowdsourcing to provide business owners with quality labor at a fraction of the cost.

A startup that’s building a version of the Oculus Rift for the visually impaired

This startup is building a digital library of German language learning resources for adults.

A 10-person startup that wants to make it easier for people to donate their blood. It’s a startup that has one person working in it full-time and another holding down a full-time job elsewhere.

A startup that’s creating a digital system for the management of health, safety and environmental risks.

An AI-powered chatbot that helps doctors diagnose and treat patients. The company says it is already being used by over 20,000 doctors in the US.

An accelerator that helps women in tech get funded

A SaaS solution for enterprise customers looking to integrate analytics and dashboards into their e-commerce processes. The startup is using the YC model to market its product.

A home-based virtual assistant that takes care of chores for you, using your smartphone to help you keep track of tasks. It’s first product is a voice-activated concierge.

This is a company that makes a way to map the physical world of information. The startup is building a suite of open data products and services that will allow users to visualize and understand the world around them.

A daily email digest that brings a ton of productivity and business tools and tips to your inbox.

In the last two years, the cost of building a nuclear plant in the US has increased seven times, while the cost of building a solar plant has dropped. Upstart Energy is building a solar plant in the desert of California to compete with utility companies that have built nuclear plants. The startup aims to use an asset-light model and build a plant for around $1.5 billion.

idea: This startup is building a service that helps retailers create flash sales with products that are limited to a certain time period. It allows merchants to manage inventory, create exclusive deals for customers, and manage all of the logistics.

A way to allow people to get paid to play games. People earn money by playing games online or via streaming.

A startup for building with wood and other building materials — the product being a new way to buy and sell wood-based furniture, building materials, and home decor.

A software company that wants to help the legal profession connect with attorneys across the country. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up over 2,000 lawyers and are working on a nationwide expansion.

A company that provides a mobile device that allows healthcare workers to connect and communicate with patients in real time via text, video, and audio.

The $1.4 million seed round was led by James Proud, and also included participation from First Round Capital, Village Global and Techstars.

A startup that builds pay-as-you-go mobile phones.

Hoping to “democratize” the process of making art. The startup wants to create a “curatorial” platform that allows artists to crowdsource art, curate it and share in the profits.

A tool for scheduling meetings between employees, allowing them to create schedules on the fly, eliminating the need for email.

A company that helps companies with procurement and procurement managers, by offering a digital channel through which employees can request products and services.

A way to let people invest in the art they love

A platform to help retailers sell their products. The startup recently launched a “marketplace” where it displays products from different retailers that it has teamed up with on a branded storefront.

A startup for digital games, where players can earn money for playing games. Currently in beta. What’s interesting is that they’re trying to make it legal to use virtual currencies, which is a relatively new idea.

A new way to find a doctor, through a website that matches patients and doctors based on their preferences. For instance, if you want a doctor who’s available on nights and weekends, then you can search by location and hours in advance.

A platform for building connected home products with a focus on security and automation. The startup aims to compete with existing standards like Thread and Nest that can manage connected devices.

A tool to help you make music from a series of notes without actually playing them.

A company that tries to get people over the old corporate fence by transforming talent management into a more human experience.

A new technology for making visual recognition systems, which will be a first use case for “cognitive computing” - a bundle of technologies that use a computer’s ability to learn, as opposed to a good ol’ fashioned camera.

An AI that helps companies discover and understand meaning in text and voice. The product is used by companies like Duolingo, and the startup says it’s profitable and growing.

A product that allows companies to create a “futures account” in which the companies has a savings and investment account.

A company that makes it easy for people to stay in touch with their loved ones with videos and messages

A platform that consolidates different shipping companies into one place, using AI to recommend which is the best shipping company for a given shipment.

A tool designed to help restaurant employees track and manage tips. The startup builds a CRM for the restaurant employees that helps them manage and track tips and better understand their customers.

A SaaS platform that uses AI to find the most efficient way to handle enterprise business data.

A network of retail stores that share sales data and support each other, so that they can all make more money.

A mobile payments app that allows you to pay for purchases without setting up a new card, and without needing to check into a physical store.

The startup is a marketplace that connects suppliers and customers, and acts as a middleman for both. The company is also working on a blockchain-based marketplace for car sales.

A startup that is working to use the blockchain for farming. They say their software can help farmers manage their inventory, track the quality of their crops and manage the relationship between farmers and distributors.

This is a startup that wants to help people find creative ways to pay their bills.

A $1 cloud-based platform for sharing your music, where friends can listen to it for free. The app is already on the Apple Store, and the company is looking to expand to Android and Windows.

A way to let people buy gifts for each other with their phones. The startup is building an app that allows you to scan barcodes of items on the internet, then share them with friends to purchase for them with a few taps.

Prim is a content management system for people who want to manage their own, personal website. It’s similar to WordPress and Squarespace, but offers more options for branding, like colors and fonts. The startup has 20K users, but it’s not yet making any revenue.

A list-management app for restaurants. The company is focused on bringing a reasonable price to the market for customers who want to see a list of all the restaurants in their area, and offering a platform to send out reminders to the wait staff.

A software company that builds tools for eCommerce businesses to understand their customers better and increase conversion.

An analytics tool for companies to track a person’s digital footprint and help them make smarter decisions based on that data.

This startup wants to build a platform that makes it easier for companies to scale their customer service department, and has already signed up 20 paying customers.

A tool for building “segmented” email lists, with a focus on helping B2B companies find more customers through email.

A tool for marketers that helps them learn about their customers by making them answer a survey about their habits and preferences.

A startup that provides an in-app chat function for websites, intended to replace contact forms

A project-management tool for small businesses. Users receive messaging and updates when tasks are completed.

A startup that helps business development teams build and maintain their relationships with customers by offering a direct line of communication that is always available.

Dedicated to helping tech companies build more sustainable products, it’s a platform for tracking products’ carbon emissions and life cycle, and helping companies figure out what to do to reduce them.

It’s similar to an Instagram filter app, but instead of changing your appearance, it changes the tone of your photos.

A platform that allows companies to create their own “micro-surveillance” with a pay-as-you-go plan.

A digital place-finding app in Singapore.

A startup that provides a service where people can rent a doctor for a short period of time (IE I am getting my wisdom teeth out and I don’t want to be out of work for a

An education-focused startup that takes a simple approach to teaching kids to code.

A company that helps users create and send virtual gifts to their friends and family, with a promise that it will never expire.

A company that wants to make it easier for companies to access and use artificial intelligence (AI) via a cloud platform.

A product development platform for startups that wants to help them avoid the hassle of developing their own systems.

A “startup for the people, by the people” offering a “new way to travel”. The company’s platform aims to bring together all of the travel options a user has into one dashboard. The idea is that it will be like an UberEATS dashboard for travel, and users will be able to instantly compare prices and options.

A paperless way to order and manage airline tickets.

A mobile-first, chat-based payment platform for the hospitality industry.

A productivity tool that allows anyone to create a personal dashboard of data. The startup wants to help its users track metrics across a variety of areas like energy consumption, sleep, and mood.

A customizable subscription box for people that use the platform.

The startup is working on an AI chatbot that can work as a personal assistant. The startup wants to use the chatbot to power the customer support for a new startup.

A web and mobile app that helps anyone interested in buying a home. Users can search for homes, find listings, and get contract details before making a purchase.

As the problem of health data for consumers becomes more complex, the company is building a tool that can help people view and manipulate their own health data.

A solution to the issue of users who want to send money to people in developing countries, but don’t have access to phones or bank accounts. With PayM, you can send money to a mobile phone number in another country, with no fees or transaction fees.

A company is planning to launch in August 2020, working on a way to better integrate ad tech, which often gets in the way of native advertising.

A system that tracks a person’s location and data for the purpose of health management. The startup wants to make it easy for people to have a better understanding of how their data is used.

Cempra is developing a new type of cancer immunotherapy called CAR T cell therapies.

A tool for mobile, web, and desktop developers to build mobile and desktop apps that can be accessed locally or remotely.

A “personal assistant” that’s meant to help people stay organized, be more productive and make more money.

An online platform for finding a stylist that works with your budget.

Services for working with nonprofits to help them raise more money via crowdsourcing.

An online video learning platform for people to watch other people work on different technologies.

A startup of office supplies for businesses.

A platform that helps groups of people share information about the same thing, like an event, like a protest, like a job opportunity.

idea: This startup is building a service that helps retailers create flash sales with products that are limited to a certain time period. It allows merchants to manage inventory, create exclusive deals for customers, and manage all of the logistics.

A company building a “personal concierge” app that connects people with the professional services they need. The CEO says the app is built with a focus on the “a la carte” experience, not the “the-big-package-of-everything” experience.

A startup that lets users more easily access Airbnb-style rooms in their own home, without having to go through vacation rentals.

A “Social Wallet” that works like Venmo combined with an online bank account. With so many online banking options available, why would a startup want to create a “Social Wallet” Because it’s easy to use and they can get a lot of money from small companies.

A startup that helps people make better use of their smartphones. It’s a powerful tool for people who work on the road but don’t have a laptop.

A health insurance startup that uses data to determine how much health care a person needs.

A social grocery store that allows users to order groceries through a single platform to have them delivered.

A company making products for businesses that help them with their sales and marketing.

A platform for the design and creation of websites. The startup wants to use its tools to make it easier for small businesses to take advantage of WordPress’s features, and create a platform that’s especially well suited for a variety of small businesses.

A platform that lets users vote on ideas, polls and comments from the web, and then lets them vote on the comments.

A software company that helps retailers and brands discover and interact with audiences on social media.

A tool for helping commuters get to their train station on time, called "Trip Planner."

A digital food safety application for importing food. It’s a tool for checking food safety once it’s on the plane, and an app to allow governments to track food in transit.

A startup that helps people to write down their ideas and turn them into a reality

This is an AI/ML startup who wants to help companies automate the process of discovery and discovery-based marketing.

A startup that wants to take the smartphone’s camera functionality and make it better. It’ll create a better camera that can shoot better photos, faster, and in brighter light, and handle low-light situations better.

A startup that promises to “make it easy to integrate your store with your store”. The startup provides a “store-to-store” feature that allows a company to allow a customer to buy a product without a store. The startup tries to optimize a company’s supply chain for this use case, and talks about the idea of a “virtual store”.

A platform for businesses to sell their excess inventory through an auction for buyers. The company has raised $4M.

A job-hunting app targeted at college graduates looking for work.

A “smart security system” that can detect intruders by taking a scan of their faces.

A startup that allows users to track their digital assets and take measures to protect their intellectual property.

Empowering the working poor, with a focus on women of color.

A startup that lets you order a custom-made pizza in 20 minutes or less. The company also sells its own branded gourmet pizzas and sells them to restaurants as well.

A platform to let companies pay for goods and services using gift cards, loyalty programs, and credit cards.

A company that offers a way for your website to be optimized for search engines.

A startup that builds out self-service enterprise-grade analytics for businesses. FastForward provides tools for a profitable, high-volume marketing campaign.

A company that builds software for mobile app developers. The company has worked with companies like Warby Parker, Kobo, and Maker Studios.

A tool for the finance industry to track and report on customer payment history.

A startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to vet candidates. The startup is building a platform that helps employers create a page with relevant writing samples, relevant work experience, and a research summary that can help employers determine if a candidate is the right fit.

A platform for companies to hire, manage, and engage their freelancers. They are looking to introduce a marketplace of sorts that allows companies to post and search for the service of a specific individual. They are also looking to launch a marketplace-style app for freelancers and clients to find each other.

A company that wants to give people a way to track their fitness exercises and their progress in real time.

A startup that helps people manage their mobile phone and internet plans from their Macs and desktops.

An audio platform for artists and labels to sell and distribute music and audio-visual content to customers.

This is a toolset that makes it easy to integrate artificial intelligence into customer service interactions. They’re close to launching and have raised $12k in seed funding.

A startup that helps people make sense of their personal finances, by giving them a dashboard view of their accounts and spending.

The startup offers a single, secure online platform for business to communicate with customers. It allows for quick, real-time communication to be channeled into a customer’s inbox.

A team of developers creating a platform that helps improve the writing quality of news articles

A startup that helps people manage their plastic cards, and make purchases that require plastic.

A platform that helps employers manage employee contracts and automate changes to benefits/pay.

A startup that helps reduce the cost of government forms by automating the process

A credit card for the underbanked. It eschews traditional bank systems and instead relies on direct deposit.

A software company that wants to help people learn Mandarin. It uses online games to make a language accessible to everyone.

A software platform to help brands sell directly to consumers, using various channels including email, text, or social.

A “digital concierge” for shoppers looking for the best deals, currently focused on the UK.

An on-demand marketplace for home healthcare workers. It helps consumers choose a caretaker and book them, and the caretaker gets a cut of the money they make.

A new way of paying for things on the internet that’s supposed to be faster, more secure, and more user-friendly than PayPal. It’s meant to be the next step up from cash.

A startup that allows people to make local videos, and then sell them to advertisers, essentially turning them into a YouTube-style video creator.

An organization focused on supporting women entrepreneurs in Thailand.

A tool for scheduling social media posts, with a marketplace for influencers to buy the posts.

Launching a tool that helps you create and edit sounds for apps in a “real-time” way

A health care startup that creates a doctor-patient relationship before a doctor is ever contacted.

A startup connecting landlords to tenants, by creating a form of insurance for landlords.

A B2B startup that helps retailers manage their supply chains. It gives retailers visibility into their stores, inventory, and shipping. It’s a way for retailers to get real-time information on their inventory, and for suppliers to get a more accurate picture of their supply chain.

A bot that helps you research and discover interesting things on Twitter.

A startup that arranges travel-to-work commuter trips. The company’s main idea is to help people save on gas, and in a press release said it was already saving customers $150 million in gas.

A semiconductor startup called 3ic is building a new type of chip that combines digital and analog components that work together to solve problems in alternate dimensions. For instance, 3ic’s analog-digital chip can channel data through certain dimensions to solve problems in medical imaging, like detecting tumours.

Invites people to organize an event on its platform.

A product developed for the Department of Defense to help soldiers train for their jobs under simulated conditions. The startup wants to connect with both military and civilian facilities, so it can create virtual training environments and simulate real-life scenarios.

This company is constructing a virtual reality gaming platform for users to play games together in a virtual world.

Everyone is doing it: Amazon, eBay, Walmart, then you have Home Depot and Lowe’s. But Meijer, a Midwest-based retailer that operates grocery stores and a number of other retail chains. Meijer is looking to use the e-commerce trend to stay ahead of its rivals and has begun selling products that haven’t been available in stores in the past, like wine and cheese.

A competitor to Amazon Echo that brings the Google Assistant to your home. The company is raising $50 million from investors and has drawn interest from Google and Apple.

A startup for managing all the different types of software for companies. Can provide a single pane of glass for software and services management, and help teams manage all their own software.

A startup that helps companies manage their contacts more efficiently, allowing them to sync up with people they already know in different industries.

A chatbot for HR departments to help workers at companies sign up for benefits.

A VC firm that looks for the next big startup in the South and Latin America

Idea: A startup that helps nonprofits raise money from their supporters. The startup charges a 20% fee of all donations made through its platform, and says it’s using a $500k grant from the Knight Foundation to grow the company.

A startup that helps users save money on daily expenses.

A company that helps customers build and install solar panels on their homes.

A SaaS platform that connects small and medium-sized businesses with freelance workers.

Building a tool to help women navigate the world of work and start their own businesses, with a focus on Africa.

A mobile app that connects you to the best local restaurants based on your search results.

InstaGro is building a tool to help small businesses manage their invoices and payments, and to automate the tedious process of sending out invoices.

A company that helps urban farmers sell fresh produce directly to local consumers via a network of farmers.

A tool that allows you to create and share online “digital scrapbook” pages. The tools allows you to create and edit digital scrapbooks that can be shared with friends.

A startup that wants to capture the beauty and lifestyle of cities through photography.

Idea: This startup is building machine learning software that helps people create smoother panning and zooming in videos. The startup previously sold a product called Flycam that helps camera operators smoothly move from one part of the scene to another.

A startup that specializes in making it easier for customers to do commerce without using the web.

A startup that lets companies recruit and manage full-time and part-time remote workers.

A startup that is building a service that will allow people to use their own credit cards to buy tickets to events.

It’s hard to focus on one thing when you’re in college and have a million responsibilities. Middleman helps you organize your life by letting you create a “bucket list” of things you want to accomplish, and then organizing those around your schedule.

A platform for self-hosting, on-demand virtual reality content, allowing users to access VR worlds without a headset.

This startup helps employees gain access to their employer’s network and resources without logging in. It’s an employee portal that connects to the company’s own servers to provide a unified sign-on.

A startup that lets users create and edit their own digital avatar, and use it to build their online presence.

A tool that helps small e-commerce and SaaS companies find and manage vendors.

A software company that wants to help people with chronic health conditions manage their care and keep on top of their medication.

A startup that provides a way to share rental payments in the UK. The company wants to make it easy for small businesses to pay someone else’s rent rather than their own.

A startup that builds software for Facebook Ads that helps marketers understand how their ads work and how they perform.

A tool to help you navigate and organize your life, and make sure you’re working toward your goals and not getting distracted. The founders say they want the tool to be the “GPS for your life” and they want to make it easy to add things like workouts and to-do lists.

A startup that allows customers to buy groceries with a prepaid Visa card. It’s already in the works with over 16,000 users.

The startup will bring Airbnb-style rentals to the B2B, letting landlords advertise and manage properties all through a centralized site.

A research startup that works with museums, universities, and art galleries to crowdsource the kinds of questions that can be answered by crowdsourcing.

A company that transforms raw materials into finished products. The company is looking to take on big manufacturers like Nike, using 3-D printing to prototype and scale production.

A platform for the “unbanked” in developing economies, this startup is building software to allow people to get loans and make payments without using traditional banks.

A B2B service helping employers find remote workers with “the best fit” for their job.

A web-based service that helps small businesses grow their sales by managing their social media, SEO, and marketing campaigns. The company currently has 1,000 clients and are now hiring in the Philadelphia area.

A ride-hailing company that lets people find a ride based on the route they’re most likely to take.

This remote worker startup is looking to help companies outsource their customer support. The company is building a platform for companies to manage their customer service via AI.

A simple way to put email and messaging in one inbox, and a way to make calls from one platform. Each app is meant to be used alongside the other, and can be combined with other services like Slack and Google Voice.

This startup is creating “predictive messaging” tools that allow people to get notifications, like when they have a doctor’s appointment, before they actually do.

A team of three full stack engineers, two graphics designers, and a marketing lead, Capital’s goal is to disrupt the legal sector of the marketplace by providing a full service legal shop. Capital is a firm that represents individuals and small businesses in a variety of legal matters. The team is currently focusing on the representation of individuals, but also does work for small businesses.

A software company that helps companies build better CRMs. The startup wants to be more like CRM-as-a-service startups, with a focus on collaboration between people and customers.

A software that helps brands and retailers to understand how their products and brand images are perceived.

A startup that helps companies build customer engagement campaigns around campaigns that are already successfully running, using their data to identify the best campaigns to cross-promote.

A search engine for mobile phone numbers with features like call forwarding.

Aimed at helping remote workers manage their time, work from anywhere, and be paid fairly for it. The startup is currently working with a large telecom company to make it easier for them to manage their time.

A company that helps small businesses and companies of all sizes create “lean-forward” websites and apps. The company has a number of products aimed at helping this process, including an earlier app that lets you create templates and prototype a mobile app. This week they launched a new product called Twig, which is a platform that lets you create a prototype of your product in a matter of minutes.

A company that helps TV networks "create and monetize their own exclusive shows, even without a network, by giving advertisers the ability to sponsor and advertise wherever their programming appears."

A platform that enables vendors to manage their inventory by connecting them to a network of marketplaces and selling through them.

A startup that makes a mobile app for vehicle purchase and lease with 1/3 deposit.

A company that provides support for enterprise organizations that want to adopt blockchain tech. The company has more than 2,000 enterprise customers, and recently announced a $1.1 million seed round.

A wearable device that monitors body movements to help fight cancer

An open-source, community-driven distributed ledger system that’s designed to enable companies to cut down on large amounts of paperwork and paperwork fraud.

People are willing to pay up to $30 a month for pet insurance, but insurers are hesitant to offer it. PetPlan is trying to change that.

A ride-hailing app that offers discounts to frequent riders, with the idea being to provide a service that’s cheaper than the existing competition.

A startup for the documentation and sharing of skills.

A seed round was raised in 2015 to fund development of the company. The company is now looking to expand into India.

A startup that is a tutoring platform for people who want to learn how to play a musical

A travel booking app that allows users to book travel on a budget

A podcast manager for users of the popular podcast app Overcast.

A startup that wants to be the company that helps companies create a single record of all of their business information, including financial documents, employee records, etc.

Essentially, a personal dating app with the goal of creating a more systematic, less chaotic way of matching people up. Potential users include people who have a special interest in a specific topic and want to find like-minded people.

The startup has developed a way to bring the flexibility, speed, and cost-efficiency of digital printing to the printing industry. The company is building a digital printing platform for professional print jobs, with the goal of replacing traditional printing services. They’re currently in the YC Winter 2019 batch.

Currently focused on the UK, a B2B company that enables people to borrow money from their employer via a payroll deduction. It charges 1% interest for up to 12 months, and the company keeps 2% of the loan amount.

A platform to simplify and enhance streaming for live music events.

A startup that wants to be the Wikipedia of insurance companies, allowing agents to research coverage on any company, to avoid calling the wrong company before doing business.

A startup that helps users publish photos and videos directly to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

A startup that’s building a platform that can let people pay rent with their phones. The company is focused on the homeless population, which is more mobile than the average person, but their platform could be used across all sectors.

This startup is building a way to make virtual reality more accessible by creating a portable VR headset with a built-in camera.

A startup that makes it easy to manage and track things by using your voice or mobile device.

A collaborative digital design tool for creative entrepreneurs.

A company that sells an app that helps you make money off of your unused phone storage.

An iPhone app that helps people find and reserve concert tickets

A tool that helps companies in France, Germany, and Belgium connect to Chinese suppliers.

A subreddit with 3,000 subscribers that discusses the best and worst of the emerging tech industry, and the companies that they’re working for.

This startup is building AI software that helps people find and rent the best fitting home for their needs. It’s designed to help people find homes, and it’s working with real estate agents and real buyers to launch the product.

A startup that works with publishers and aggregators to help them track and monetize their website traffic.

A cryptocurrency wallet with a brand-new design.

A mobile solution to ensure that restaurant kitchens aren’t overworking staff during busy periods.

A company that lets you find and book the right stylist for your next haircut, without having to leave your desk.

A digital payments platform for the restaurant industry, building tools to help restaurants manage cash flow and optimize sales.

Idea: A platform to bring great coffee to everyone, everywhere The startup is building a barista-grade coffee brewing system using the Nespresso capsule format The company says it has $8,500 in monthly recurring revenue

Idea : A tool for managing relationships between people with similar interests. The company is building a platform to help people share interests with others, and it’s using data science to help people actually find each other.

A startup that creates apps for restaurants, choosing to partner with restaurants that have a “local” feel. The startup is currently focusing on the US and UK, but plans to expand to other countries.

In an interview with TechCrunch, the company said it was building a “mobile first,” “on-demand” fully-distributed video streaming platform.

A platform that allows companies to get more efficient at attending to customer requests.

A really good website that talks about how much you love cats, or any other pet, and the company wants to make it even better.

A startup building an “AI Assistant that helps you throw a dinner party to impress your friends, that also knows when to make a restaurant reservation, and when to call your mom”.

This B2B startup is building a platform to make it easier for companies to collaborate with each other. It uses a cloud-based software that lets companies share data with each other.

A Chicago-based startup that wants to make parking a breeze using an app that allows drivers to pay for parking via their phone.

“A new way for businesses to deal with email marketing. It’s more efficient and automated”

A software company that helps retailers manage their inventory and stock levels. The idea is to create a centralized warehouse management system for retailers.

A B2B company that helps manage software deployments for enterprise companies, which are in turn used to manage the development and deployment of software for multiple startups.

A system that helps dealerships and dealers manage cars. The company says they want to be the company that helps dealers manage cars and insurance.

A way to make your phone’s battery last longer. The startup uses a sensor that tells the phone when it is being charged and when the battery is running low. It then adjusts the phone’s power management settings.

An organization focused on supporting women entrepreneurs in Thailand.

A digital ticker for stock quotes.

A startup that builds custom software for companies that want to use data and analytics to improve their business.

A startup that connects and consolidates all your various fitness tracking devices into a single dashboard.

An online marketplace for digital goods and services, built on the premise that a closed loop market can be established within an existing open market (e.g. Facebook)

"Gizmodo" called the Startup Battlefield and Fast Company’s 2016 “Top 10 Coolest Companies”.

A company that creates a way to track the movement of money and assets across different banks.

A startup that pulls live market data into a dashboard for investment and trading. The startup says it has $1.2 million in funding and has worked with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.

A system that lets companies quickly and easily build their own hardware products, with a goal of making it easier for companies to build hardware at scale.

Working to develop a new personal finance platform that helps users manage their money by providing ‘simple tools and features that save time and money.’ Beyond personal finance, the startup is also interested in the wellness and fitness markets, and wants to provide a platform for people to track their health and nutrition.

A company that makes software to help colleges manage student enrollment and completion of classes via a single online system.

A software company that helps companies visualize financial data to help them make better business decisions.

A startup for “sprinting” through a project, allowing users to create a schedule and track progress

A startup that is building a platform to help book travel in a new way — instead of searching for flights and hotels, you’ll search for experiences. The startup is partnering with hotels, attractions, and others to build a better experience for travelers looking to do something unique.

This is a platform for building out personalized customer service — for instance, a startup called Chum’s can take the clickstream data from the customer’s website and use it to predict what questions the customer might ask and how long the customer will spend on their website.

A digital wallet app that lets you use your phone to pay in stores with your face.

A startup that helps small businesses make sense of their data, and organize it into a visual dashboard.

Customer support software, aimed at wearable tech and health care providers.

A tool for planning events with a group of people in mind, similar to a calendar but for smaller groups. The startup is looking to partner with Indian companies that organize team events.

A startup that wants to be a one-stop shop to help you manage your business expenses

A video-editing tool that lets users assemble clips from their camera roll to create professional-quality videos.

A platform to save money on airline tickets for frequent travelers. The company’s software automatically determines how much you’d pay each way to get to a particular destination, based on your previous travel history.

A messaging app that lets you chat with your friends using GIFs and stickers. Like Kik, the app uses a chatbot to accept your messages and then creates your messages out of existing ones in your phone.

A system that helps companies have conversations with customers via automated SMS messaging.

This startup is building a tool that helps CEOs and CFOs keep up with their financial reports and to help them build a fair compensation system for their employees.

A startup that is building a platform for the wholesale and distribution market. They’re looking to help retailers and store managers sell more and find new customers.

A company that makes it easy to build out e-commerce sites for mom and pop stores

This startup is building a standalone front-end for premium video ads.

The startup is looking to help small businesses grow by connecting them with customers, and bringing them together.

A startup that sells a software-based appliance that helps companies protect their data from

A startup that’s building virtual reality that encourages mindfulness.

A tool that helps businesses and governments keep track of their data in real time.

A company that aims to “make it easy for anyone to deploy software” by providing a platform for developers to collaborate on code, manage their projects, and share codebases

A way to help people share their calendars with family and friends and collaborate on events. The company has already raised $2.5 million in seed funding.

This is an online marketplace for people who want to sell their old stuff. It also wants to be a marketplace for people who want to buy used stuff.

A company that helps people build websites using content management systems.

The app will allow people to search and buy flights at any time of day, choosing from direct flights, travel agencies, or their preferred airlines.

A platform to help retailers sell their products. The startup recently launched a “marketplace” where it displays products from different retailers that it has teamed up with on a branded storefront.

This “Airbnb for Doctors” is letting people rent out their homes and apartments for temporary medical offices.

What’s the future of retail A startup that helps retailers visualize, optimize, and design their stores using the latest AI and machine learning technologies.

In 2015, the foundation of the startup was a brief strategic meeting between a team of people with a shared vision of creating a new and better way to track and support youth development. Today, they’re a nonprofit with a mission to help youth reduce barriers and realize their full potential.

"We are a group of experienced marketers and developers who believe in building companies that are powered by users and not investors. We want to move from a world of transactional businesses to ones that are built on relationships. Our mission is to build a platform that allows people to create and share their own content in the same way that they share links or photos on Facebook."

The company has been working with major banks in the region to help them improve the way they price loans and mortgages. It can also help non-bank lenders do the same.

The company makes Alexa-compatible smart beauty tools.

This startup lets a lawyer write a letter for a client that looks like it was written by the client, but all the essential details are still correct.

A company that claims to have “saved” over $2 billion for businesses and individuals.

A startup building a software platform for retail that automates product returns, credit, and refunds on all e-commerce sites

A startup that helps people with very complicated or long-term projects find a virtual assistant

A startup that helps people learn how to cook, with a focus on recipes that use ingredients they’ve never used before.

Boomware is building a tool to help companies simplify their setup, configuration, and maintenance of their APIs.

A startup that helps people buy and sell digital services online

A company that aims to help consumers find the best and safest health insurance plans, using machine learning to match buyer to plan and find the best value and lowest price for consumers.

A platform that allows doctors to upload and view patient records from their computer.

A startup that offers a mobile app that allows you to find, discover and book professional service providers that you can trust.

A tool that helps small businesses connect with customers. The company’s founders say that the company’s users have saved over $500,000 by using the tool.

A digital HR solution for companies that want to access information about their employees from anywhere. The startup currently has $300,000 in funding.

A company in India that’s working on a new way to bridge the rural-urban divide by using a product called “the farming app”. The app helps farmers manage their crops, including automatic seeding, crop rotation, watering, and planting.

A startup that uses a mobile app and smart watch to help people monitor their health and fitness.

A platform that connects people to community service projects near them, with a web-based platform and mobile app.

A way to protect online organizing tools from hackers, phishing and malware. The startup’s software protects sites from remote access and data theft.

A startup aiming to develop a “smart pill bottle” that monitors and helps consumers better manage their medicine.

A tool that helps contractors get paid on time, as well as allows its users to get paid faster. The startup helps contractors get paid on time, as well as allows its users to get paid faster.

A startup that provides a service where people can order up a marketing consultant to help them with their business

The startup is building a mobile app to help people find and connect with local barbers in their area, including how to book a haircut, and even how to book a haircut online.

A platform for direct-to-consumer health care that allows users to share health data and receive treatment recommendations from a variety of doctors and hospitals. The company says it is the only platform of its kind and has raised $1.2 million to date.

A startup that provides a service where people can order up a marketing consultant to help them with their business

The company’s mission is to “redefine the way people live and work”.

Notion is a platform that aims to simplify the purchase process for small businesses. Rather than buying products online, you can link their local brick-and-mortar store to the website and have the products delivered to you.

A way to automatically send money to a friend in need. If you can’t go to the person who needs the money, you can still give them some of what you have.

A startup that uses AI to help companies visualize their data in new ways, showing them how their data is organized, so they can make better decisions.

A platform that allows users to build apps and games by connecting to the Internet. The startup is backed by investors like TechStars, SV Angel, and 500 Startups.

This is a startup that wants to help companies capture and make money from the data generated on their websites. It’s a software that helps companies gather data about their customers and then deploy a service to make money from that information.

One of the first building tools to be powered by code and designed to last a lifetime. The company builds furniture from wood, metal, and concrete using woodworking robots.

An investment platform that allows users to invest their money in marijuana stocks and related ventures.

A platform for fashion brands to manage their products, with a lean startup that seeks to build a marketplace where brands can sell their products directly to consumers.

A “crowdsourced business intelligence platform”. The startup wants to help businesses predict and manage their growth. It launched in May with 1000 customers.

A mobile app that turns your smart phone into a tiny Internet router and a way to share your phone's connection with others. It’s kind of like and VPN but for your phone.

A startup that’s creating a platform for sharing high-quality, low-cost medical images.

A Singapore-based startup that aims to create a new, more accessible way for companies to collect payments.

A software company trying to solve the problems with digital payments in developing markets, where mobile banking is still a novelty. The startup wants to provide a solution that’s simple, easy, and secure.

A way for people to search for parking spots and valet services with an app.

A software company that helps customers manage the complexities of modern managing a construction project on-time and within budget.

A “social business networking platform” that helps small businesses advertise and connect with each other.

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build websites on the open source Angular platform, including visual design and templates. Atlassian is the startup's first customer.

A way to connect startups with customers that offer more than just a product.

A digital rewards program for customers. Customers earn points for purchases, and then redeem them for prizes ranging from gift cards to gadgets and cash.

A company that wants to help you manage your network of colleagues, friends, and customers. The startup wants to build a smarter network of people to keep up with connections and build a community with. It plans to focus on small companies because they tend to have more existing relationships to build on, and are more likely to use social networks.

A startup for customers to find local, in-person services and booking them online.

A consumer card that can be used at many places where plastic credit cards are accepted. It’s meant for the Indian market to replace a plethora of different forms of payment.

A wave-generated, self-powered electricity generator

A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.

A tool for mobile distribution of content, such as video or photos, to other platforms.

A platform for running and publishing community-driven events, such as hackathons and meetups.

A platform that helps small businesses get access to credit and loans. The startup says it has received a $1.2 million investment and counts Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator as investors.

A mobile app that helps people find local cafes and restaurants. The startup, based in San Francisco, is pitching its app as a Yelp for food.

This app aims to help people find a local bar or restaurant, and lets you order food or drinks through your mobile device.

Expedia is trying to take the mystery out of travel by offering you the ability to book flights and hotels right from your phone.

A startup that wants to help HR/recruitment/HR department leaders in the US to run their businesses more like startups. The founders say the company helps HR departments get more efficient by putting HR processes on rails and sharing best practices.

An HR startup that helps companies hire and manage software engineers. They focus on a unique interview process of tracking answers and listening to the answers and use machine learning to sort candidates, give feedback, and determine how to move forward.

A tool built for the hospitality industry that allows them to better manage the labor they have on-hand. The tool can track labor in real-time, and when it’s time to restock the fridge or refill the coffee machine, the software can alert the staff to take action.

A digital platform for understanding how customers interact with your product in order to drive new products and improvements.

With the help of The Next Web, Recruiterbox has raised $3.5 million to date.

A startup for companies and organizations to manage their internal communications using Facebook Messenger

This startup is building a machine that can scan and reinterpret customers’ DNA to find the most effective treatment for their genetic condition.

A startup that helps children with autism, who often struggle with handwriting, to be able to write more easily.

A startup that’s building a library management software for libraries. The company wants to cater to a market that’s been underserved by libraries and wants to provide them with a product that can manage the collections and the collections management of patrons.

A company that helps companies create, manage, and implement international human resource policies.

SaveUp is a one-stop shop for college savings plans in the US, Canada, and the UK. It works to save people money with a tool that automatically sends pre-tax contributions from employer to student's 529. The company has raised $1.5M in funding.

A startup looking to create an API that helps developers build applications that can help people in need monitor and control their home appliances from a smartphone and a connected thermostat.

A startup that allows you to keep track of your billable hours on every project.

Automating the process of training and vetting employees to better manage employee churn.

A startup for lending to small businesses. The startup makes it easy for banks and investors to lend to small businesses.

A company that automatically matches users with their fitness instructors

A next-generation operating system for your phone.

A micro-insurance company that is beginning to offer healthcare coverage to low-income individuals in the US. Their goal is to reach the uninsured and help them purchase insurance.

A startup that helps customers track their package. The startup’s goal is to build an app that lets people track the status of their packages, so they know when it’s about to be delivered, shipped, or lost.

Amazon Alexa has invaded every household in the US. The company wants to make the device even more useful, by adding a voice-controlled interface for apps.

A way to create and share temporary job openings, then pickup and schedule those jobs.

A new Uber-like platform for on-demand delivery. The company plans to use the same technology that powers the on-demand delivery app to streamline the process of getting food delivered to your home.

A tool to help guide and monitor a company’s sustainability efforts. It hooks into a company’s internal systems to track the amount of water and energy used.

A platform that helps create custom-printed clothing

Everyone has a friend or acquaintance that they’d like to loan money to, but they have no way to do so. MoneyBroker does just that, pairing people with other people in need of cash with those who have funds to give. The startup has already raised $2.5 million and is currently on-boarding more than 2,000 users a month.

A digital concierge for the food industry, providing recommendations for restaurants, and ordering for you.

A platform for managing and tracking social media conversations. The company’s first product is a chatbot that lets people manage their social media conversations.

A platform that makes it quick and easy for anyone to start a crowdfunding campaign.

Idea: Helping event organizers make money by adding a “pay what you want” option to their ticketing.

A new financial technology company that’s building a software platform that allows anyone to invest in a new business.

An SMS-based texting service for users to send and receive emergency alerts.

A company that provides software for the financial services industry that aims to reduce the cost of complying with regulations.

This startup wants to make it easy for small-business owners to sell their products and services through their social media channels.

This startup is looking to bring the Uber experience to grocery shopping.

A clever way of connecting e-commerce orders to the physical goods they are for by using a “touch and pay” system. The startup’s system is built for vending machines, and it works in a similar way to Square or PayPal. The startup says it has closed $5 million in funding.

A platform that helps companies analyze their own data, with a focus on finding ways to make information more actionable.

A tool that helps users track their fitness progress, measure calories burned, and connect with friends.

A startup looking to help small businesses in the Philippines get discounts on their utilities.

A company that helps advertisers try out new ad formats and measure their effectiveness. For a small fee, advertisers can use the startup’s service to generate a report on their campaign's success. The company claims to have a list of over 100 clients, including large fashion brands and big insurance companies.

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

A startup that helps farmers in Latin America find the best deals from local banks on loans, but also helps them avoid scams and fraud.

A group of freelance writers who have agreed to work unpaid on a monthly basis to write content for a startup.

An AI-powered tool for social media marketers, allowing them to increase the reach of their posts, and filling in all of the gaps in the traditional social media marketing process.

A digital platform that helps people save money when they’re shopping online, allowing them to search for sales and coupons, and monitor their spending in real time.

This is a SaaS that provides a platform to help B2B companies with their analytics and sales.

Food delivery and home services in India with no delivery fees. The startup is looking to deliver a wide range of goods, from food to cleaning products, from thousands of businesses that have been vetted by the company.

A solution for the challenges of growing a business in a remote location

A supply chain startup that helps retailers buy in bulk and sell to consumers at a lower price

A hybrid life insurance company that combines traditional life insurance with a private-sector investment arm.

Idea: A startup that helps retail businesses create personalized images and videos for their products. The company’s CEO says that the startup’s technology has already been used to create over 3,000 videos, and the startup has generated $50,000 in revenue so far.

A startup that provides real-time feedback to software developers on their work.

A startup that wants to help the more than 60,000 people who work on Amazon’s warehouses communicate with one another.

Builds a retail website for selling products via Instagram. The startup’s founder says that the website is “the world’s first” to use the social platform to sell physical products online.

A platform that helps retailers and brands use the right technology to get a leg up on the competition.

The startup sells a solution to the problem of poor Wi-Fi connections at airports and hotels. The company’s product is a small device that can be plugged into a wall that has a “hot spot” for high-speed internet.

A social network for healthcare professionals that lets them share a photo of a patient, see a doctor’s response, and collaborate with other professionals.

A company that will replace existing safety tools for self-driving cars, including collision avoidance systems, with a dashboard that overlays cameras, radar, lidar, and other sensors.

A startup that wants to help small businesses grow by providing them with marketing resources, like a library of content, a database of business names, and an email database.

A “car-sharing” platform where users can find a ride

A company that makes software for the oil and gas industry to help it “make price forecasts and manage risks”.

A startup that lets users create a database of their home inventory so they can easily sell their home if they need to move

A San Francisco-based startup that has developed a platform that allows real estate agents to securely and easily access information about clients in their MLS.

A digital platform for artists to sell their work, giving them a chance to get their work in front of a wider audience.

An API that allows developers to integrate location capabilities into their apps, without having to build their own location-based features.

A company that invests in early stage startups that can help tech companies improve their security.

A music streaming service aimed at those who want to pay for an artist’s music, but don’t want to pay for the music service, such as Spotify.

A tool for choosing where to eat in a city.

A startup that allows small businesses to sell their products online, and pay vendors with a digital wallet, and only with verified credit card.

A platform to help insurance adjusters and claims adjusters stay up-to-date with rules and regulations.

A startup that wants to use IoT to help farmers avoid pesticides and decrease their input costs.

A social network for people who run their own businesses. The company wants to help people find like-minded people who can help with tasks like bookkeeping and payroll.

A digital alternative for physical notes and calendars. The startup says it’s a better way to organize and share calendars with family and friends. They charge $5 per month for a calendar with unlimited notes.

A startup that lets you get paid to order and share photos of food, to drive up healthy meal sales

A secure cloud-based email service with end-to-end encryption.

A platform that helps small businesses manage their bank accounts. The company is based in New York, but serves companies in other states and countries around the world.

An AI startup that uses machine learning to help companies manage their customer service requests. Uses AI to automate customer service requests, and can also do things like act as a virtual secretary, book appointments, and handle customer service calls.

Derringer is a company that reduces the risk of email scams by providing a service that verifies authenticity of emails, using domain reputation.

A product that uses a smartphone’s camera to scan the world around it, providing context and data in real time.

A system that lets food trucks and delivery services compare prices and find the best deals.

Handscomb is building a “location-aware” dog collar that lets pet owners know when they leave their dog alone. The startup’s founders say the collar is more humane than a traditional shock collar, letting owners know when their dogs are alone.

A startup that will sell you gear that can help you monitor and control your pets remotely, with a focus on helping pet owners in developing countries.

A startup that aims to connect cities around the world through a virtual trade show.

A cloud-based customer service platform with AI that aims to reduce customer complaints by 80 percent.

This startup is building a platform for teachers to build their own learning resources and organize them on their own. The startup wants to build a set of tools for teachers that make it easy to build, publish and share their own learning materials.

A 3D modeling tool for UI/UX designers, who can create immersive 3D models to help visualize their ideas.

A computer science degree designed for people in the large, growing Indian market for “robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision”, with a built-in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

A platform for companies to get a better handle on their runways of suppliers, factories, and partners.

A digital payments app that allows users to pay merchants by scanning a QR code or scanning their phone at a point of sale.

A tool to help people understand their finances, in the form of an app that takes a person’s income and expenses and tells them how much to spend each month. The startup is also building a tool to help people understand their credit scores, and is working with several credit scoring agencies.

A wearable device that tracks running and biking data and can communicate with a smartphone app. The startup wants to make it easy to get new workouts and track progress without having to purchase a wearable or smartphone apps.

This company helps those in need by paying people a small sum when they take the time to take selfies, record videos, and then share them on social media. It’s a way to collect data on poverty in the digital age, and it’s also a way to raise money for charity.

A startup that wants to create an Uber for the enterprise, connecting businesses with drivers who want to make extra income on their own time.

A tool that helps local governments make policy decisions by letting them track and evaluate the public’s actions.

A Brazilian startup that wants to make it easier for people to share their meals (and with whom) with family and friends.

A startup that builds value-added solutions for the e-commerce industry, helping online retailers optimize customer experience and build better sales.

A bit like Couchsurfing, but for food.

A simple tool that gives people a way to track their finances, with a focus on building a community. It’s just launched in beta and says it’s already gaining traction in the SF Bay Area.

A system for connecting men with men for same-direction relationships

A company that makes it easier for businesses and schools to meet in person for meetings and collaborate.

An intelligence company that works with other companies to solve problems by analyzing data and developing predictive algorithms.

A software platform that helps businesses monitor and manage apps and data. The startup’s software helps companies understand how they’re using their apps to make better decisions.

A platform that helps clients and teams track and manage project plans. The cloud-based platform is used by professional services firms, marketing agencies, and retail companies, with the company’s founders saying they’ve already grown to over $100 million in annual revenue.

A startup where users can create and sell customizable AR apps. The startup is currently working with partners in the Middle East to help them get started.

A tool for freelancers to track how much work they’ve done, pay invoices and manage their projects. The startup is working with YC alumni to grow the team.

A software-as-a-service startup that helps electricians and contractors manage the data and connections of their business and stay organized.

Founded by former Viacom executive and a former Google sales exec, this startup is building a suite of tools that help companies manage their influencer marketing, although their own website says they’re better suited for “large enterprises”.

A startup that helps the software industry get up to speed with the newest trends. The startup provides a platform for companies to build and publish app prototypes, with a focus on business use cases.

A startup that lets you export your Gmail contacts and import them into other services.

We want to let people organize their photos and videos as easily as they organize their text messages. We’re building a photo management app that’s simple and easy to use, and we’ll be selling our own photo storage product through the app.

A retail platform for brands to launch online-only stores.

A startup that helps build and nurture websites or mobile apps

A platform that helps you share and curate content from multiple publishers in real time. The startup's main goal is to help publishers and brands sell more stuff.

A hybrid life insurance company that combines traditional life insurance with a private-sector investment arm.

A way to buy and sell international phone numbers.

A startup that wants to build a smartphone camera that can shoot video in 360 degrees.

A tool for helping people build a personalized fitness plan and stay on track with a fitness coach.

A digital currency for freelancers and small business owners to transact in person, billable software for independent contractors to manage their invoices, and a market for people to buy and sell freelance services.

A business plan for a startup is like a sales pitch. It’s vague. It’s hard to see its potential. And it’s hard to know if it’s worth checking out. So many founders miss out on the chance to grow their business because they don’t have this thing called a business plan that explains how they’ll do it. The goal of this startup is to make it easy for anyone to write that plan. It’s currently only available in the Bay Area.

A company that makes in-app sales in mobile games. Their software makes it easy for game developers to manage in-app sales in their games.

A mobile therapy app for anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.

This startup’s algorithm is designed to find and cancel fraudulent payments, automatically. It’s free for merchants to use, and they’re aiming to partner with processors and banks.

A start-up that is building a platform that will connect homeowners to homeowners insurance companies and save them money.

A startup to help students create and publish online portfolios, and connect to employers and institutions.

A computer vision startup that’s building AI to help monitor and improve plant health. The startup wants to take the burden of plant health monitoring off of the farmers and onto an AI platform.

A startup that partners with CFOs and investment firms to help them better manage their business and growth.

A platform providing an interface for companies to manage and monitor their products, along with building a marketplace for reselling and supporting them. They’ve raised $2.3 million.

A company that helps people find vendors, banks, and other companies that can help with a specific request.

The company wants to help businesses and professionals share their financial information.

A tool that helps organizations create a “permissioned” blockchain.

A startup that wants to be the Uber for bike rentals: a service where you can pick up a bike and drop it off at a central hub and then pay a flat fee to use it.

A platform that enables fans to interact with players and teams to better understand their interests. The startup is currently in a partnership with the NBA; it’s also in a partnership with the A’s to help fans in the Bay Area get better access to the team.

A group of photographers who create a “worldwide portfolio of travel images”, focusing on “underrepresented cultures”.

is a complete digital design and development platform for startups. The platform is expected to make it easy for companies to build and launch products.

A platform that helps homeless people and veterans find jobs

A tool for making fashion and lifestyle designs more accessible to the visually impaired. It’s designed to be a sort of digital notepad, allowing users to record and share their ideas, or “riffs” as they call them.

The summer school is for students interested in learning programming and fundamental knowledge in computer science, with the intent of helping them be successful in college.

A tool for people to manage and share the items they have in their house. The company recently received $2.5 million in Series A funding.

The startup’s goal is to create a “travel agency on steroids”. The idea is to use AI and AI-powered services to plan trips and recommend hotels and activities.

The startup wants to connect brand owners with influencers to create content for online and social media. The startup is currently in a partnership with Universal Pictures and the upcoming movie “The Girl On The Train”.

A startup that wants to make it easier to test out new software—and then provide feedback from customers

A software platform for healthcare companies to manage their prescription costs. Has been used to automate over 40% of the cost of a typical Medicare Part D plan.

A startup that creates webinars for startups that help them “scale” faster.

The startup offers a platform that helps you manage your insurance and healthcare needs from one place, using an “integrated health platform” that breaks down medical costs into categories and lets you quickly compare practitioners and procedures.

A personal finance startup that helps you have money at a higher level of granularity.

A startup developing a machine learning tool for streamlining data collection and analysis.

A startup to help non-tech people get started in blockchain. The startup is looking to use its data and know-how to help people navigate the world of crypto assets.

11. "Forbes"'s 2018 ranking of the most promising companies in 2015:

A startup that wants to make it easy for companies to have a way to keep track of their products’ life cycles. The plan is to sell the idea to the likes of HP, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

A platform for asset managers to streamline the process of setting up and administering 401k plans for their employees.

A startup that wants to give small businesses a platform for hosting and selling their products directly to their customers.

These guys are helping retailers sell tickets for their products in-person and online. They have an active social media presence with over 1,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter.

A company that’s building a tool (currently in beta) that lets you make a personal copy of your credit report and then share it with others.

A software platform that helps businesses monitor and manage apps and data. The startup’s software helps companies understand how they’re using their apps to make better decisions.

You’ll be able to “flip” your car with this startup.

A global insurance company that helps people buy and insures their homes via a mobile app. The startup is looking to operate in 30 countries.

A tool to help companies record and share the most valuable moments of a trip and plan better for the next time.

A startup that connects travelers to locals who want to hang out

A startup that offers a tool to help brands create highly customized email campaigns, integrating with Salesforce and other CRM systems.

A tool for people to manage and share the items they have in their house. The company recently received $2.5 million in Series A funding.

A digital platform for professionals who want to build their own investment portfolios. The idea is to make investing easier for the average person, and the company is working to make investing more accessible across Brazil.

A startup for booking a doctor's appointment for a specific patient in a specific location. Doctors and patients can both create and track appointments online, with the idea being that patients will be able to call in for an appointment from anywhere at any time, and doctors can only book appointments on the site.

An AI-powered dating site for people looking for long-term relationships.

An experimental startup that wants to mine and sell data from the phone in your pocket.

A startup that allows users to request rides from others nearby, for a nominal fee. The company uses a model similar to Uber, charging users a fee for a ride request, and charging the driver a fee for accepting the ride.

A platform for building apps for the iPhone that doesn’t require any coding experience.

A tool for talent acquisition, like LinkedIn, but for startups. Covers things like scheduling, calendar management, etc. and helps startups keep track of their own employees.

A smart lock system for shared buildings, which will be managed and monitored by a single company.

Insight is a “socially conscious marketplace”, with the goal of connecting people to good causes. Platforms include an online donation service, a marketplace where people can buy and sell things that help a cause, and a marketplace where people can communicate with the causes they support.

A social media platform that focuses on live video, rather than posting to a timeline after the fact. Users can watch and interact with other users live.

A network of women who are interested in trading services/products online for fun, personal, or professional use.

A tool that helps companies create software that can be run across multiple devices, using HTML5.

A SaaS tool that enables a user to create a profile of their health, including medical records, insurance, location, and allergies. The startup is trying to make it easier for consumers to get health care.

A payments company that lets companies with a bunch of different bank accounts collect payments on their platform.

A platform for engaging in adventure activities with your friends and family.

A software-as-a-service company that helps B2B companies automate and secure their supply chains, a niche the founders say is worth $50 billion.

A business-to-business marketplace that connects manufacturers and distributors with retailers so they can sell products to consumers directly.

There are two ways to get around the city. The first is the conventional private vehicle. The second is a bicycle. EcoBike wants to connect users to their bicycles via apps, and provide a software platform to allow the bikes to talk to each other.

A tool helping people make an audio track of their life, from a single instrument, so they can share that with their friends and family.

A SaaS platform for helping financial institutions and consumers manage their money.

A startup that helps people learn how to work with their finances, both in one-on-one sessions, and through a “follow-along” plan. They’re launching their beta in mid-May.

A platform that helps teams of small businesses find insurance partners.

This startup is building a mobile payments system that they say is simpler and more secure than Apple Pay.

“A data visualization tool for sales, marketing, and operations teams”, meant to help companies visualize their own data more effectively.

Leveraging AI to automate the process of crunching numbers to optimize an investment portfolio

This company, which was also founded in May, is building an online platform to help renters coordinate with their landlords. The company is looking to unify dozens of platforms that currently don’t talk with one another.

A platform for media creators to make money off their own content, without having to share their work with other sites.

Idea: This startup helps restaurants streamline operations through an app that lets customers order their meals on a tablet and then pick them up at a counter inside the restaurant

A targeted social reach tool for businesses that allows for an insight into their customers.

This company is building software to help the top 1% of salespeople and leadership, which they say is a $3 trillion market.

A platform for companies to manage their supply and demand for software engineers.

The company built a “crowd-sourced” platform to help people with their financial planning.

A platform that connects people to community service projects near them, with a web-based platform and mobile app.

A web app that brings a person’s social media accounts together into a single interface, for use with Slack or email.

LIFX, a light bulb company, raised $20 million in its Series A funding round.

A startup that helps companies control their own brand and messaging through a single interface

A startup that helps small businesses in Latin America integrate their credit cards, bank accounts, and bank transfers into a single mobile app. The company’s goal is to bring the power of tech to small businesses in Latin America.

A company that offers a way for media companies to manage their content pipeline, with the startup saying it’s already working with “a couple hundred” companies.

This startup is building a device for physically and digitally connecting people to each other in real life.

An online service that allows customers to order the same dish from thousands of restaurants.

A tool for people who rent out their homes while they’re away to charge guests for the use of their rooms.

A drone that can follow you around on land and in the air, taking photos and video and providing a 360-degree view of your surroundings.

A tool for tracking the performance of marketing automation tools, allowing users to review how well they’re working.

An API that generates content for entrepreneurs and startups on the subject of marketing, building out a platform for content creators to share their knowledge with the world.

People who have a lot of stuff are often very stressed out. This startup is helping them clean out their homes, one item at a time.

A startup that helps people find the closest taxi service on demand. A company called Taxi Magic will match you up with a cab in under 5 minutes, and if there's not one nearby, you can request a car to come pick you up.

An ML-powered sales and marketing tool that helps companies connect with their customers.

A startup that helps employees quickly spend their travel or expense account funds.

This Boston-based startup wants to make it easier for urbanites to find the perfect park for all of their needs.

A platform for automated trading. The startup’s goal is to bring better tech to the financial markets.

A tool that helps you optimize your website’s performance based on real-time analytics.

A startup that sends flowers to a person's phone. The startup, which launched in May, has partnered with over 50 retailers and plans to expand into more.

This San Francisco-based startup is building a platform for businesses to manage the entire range of legal and regulatory compliance tasks.

This startup is building a “software-as-a-service” platform for enterprise customers that helps them create employee access and review policies.

An AI-powered HR platform that helps companies recruit and manage employees.

A platform to create and distribute high-quality, curated content for marketing and education, including online courses and videos.

A startup that makes an AI-based platform for sales and marketing teams to build and manage leads.

A tool for online learning, similar to LinkedIn Learning or Udacity. The startup helps you integrate, manage, and track your educational programs.

A platform for managing the supply chain for e-commerce, aimed at companies with very little time to spare.

The software lets employers manage the careers of anonymous employees. The startup is using the data to help companies recruit talent from candidates who have the best qualifications.

This company is building a real-time analytics platform for customer support teams. It uses machine learning to help teams prioritize customer issues and spot trends in order to improve response time and user happiness.

A chatbot-based service that helps businesses sell to those in their target markets. Founded by two Interactive Advertising Bureau employees, the company wants to build “your friend in advertising” — a tool that helps you buy a product or service with a personalized conversation.

Software that is designed to make it easier to use the state's Department of Motor Vehicles

A platform which helps people sign up for and manage their subscriptions.

In the spring of 2015, Y Combinator launched a branch in San Francisco as its first outside of Silicon Valley. It also expanded its new branch to Berlin, London, Toronto, and Madrid. By 2017, Y Combinator said it had over 150 active startups on its program.

This company is building an app called “MyBeds” for homeowners to create a “bespoke bedroom” for their home. The app lets you create a “dream room” from a set of customizable, curated items.

A company that helps companies be more efficient and cost-effective

A company that helps restaurants manage their social media presence with their own digital presence.

A startup that brings the power of machine learning to personalized health through an app.

A startup that connects “everything in your life, from your fitness tracker to your fitness coach,” according to the website.

An AI-powered platform to allow businesses to manage social and digital marketing activities from one place.

A startup that helps companies in the world’s fastest growing markets manage, store, and share documents.

We also did a deep dive in an article about the class, including a video from the press conference.

A payment startup with a focus on offering a simpler payment experience for consumers in emerging markets.

In October 2015, an app called "SparkPeople" was released by a team of developers from the University of Cincinnati. The app allows users to track their daily health and fitness goals, as well as providing personal and social health tips.

A company that helps employees share information about their projects. It’s also an app that powers human resources at major companies.

A B2B company that sells cloud-based software that helps companies create and manage online training programs. The startup’s product is already used by the likes of LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Microsoft.

A platform that allows a designer to prototype digital products for brands before the actual design is done

A digital to-do list that syncs across devices.

A startup that intends to help people in rural areas get the same level of internet access that they would in an urban setting.

They want to make personalized recommendations based on the consumer’s “patterns of behavior.” The idea is that you can use this to make better purchasing and service choices, like learning why you always get the same brand of coffee each morning and getting them to send you something else.

The idea is to bring together self-employed people under one roof, enabling them to access services like health insurance, taxes, and retirement planning at a discounted price. A&M currently has 10 people signed up and plans to expand to 40 in the next few months.

A real-time news app that helps users stay informed about the latest news and events related to their favorite sports teams.

A cryptocurrency for peer-to-peer ride-sharing.

A “tame” version of a chatbot, with the goal of making it easier to communicate with the company’s marketing team.

A messaging app for urbanites in India, where the government has banned SMS and WhatsApp, and SMS is often unreliable.

The company was founded by Ramy El Bannaoui and Chris Curtis, who had previously founded the company in 2007 and sold it in 2011.

A solution for small businesses to automate their bookkeeping, invoicing, and accounting. The startup is looking to partner with other companies in exchange for a cut of their profits.

The startup is building an on-demand remote delivery service for restaurant takeout and delivery orders.

A startup that sells phone cases where the back of the case can be customized to show a picture of your child

This startup wants to make Snapchat contacts more useful. Instead of just sending a snap to a contact, you can send them a message and have them view it.

A startup that acts as a broker for the sale of private homes and holiday rentals. Founded in 2016, it has 1,000+ customers in the UK.

A cloud platform that keeps a record of a company’s products and orders, and can even do inventory management.

A startup that helps students get their transcripts online for free.

A company that wants to create a new way to package and ship consumer electronics.

A startup that helps companies automate their customer support, typically by making it easier to collect data and send out automated responses to customers.

A mobile health company that is creating a platform for users to access their medical records from their smartphone, and to find out more about their health.

A medical biller that gives users a way to compare healthcare costs across providers.

Mandrill is an email marketing service. The startup wants to make it easier for companies to send transactional emails.

A startup for creative services that allows for a more efficient use of a person’s time, billing for services performed by the time they’re completed.

Idea: A startup that creates a marketplace for intellectual property. The startup’s pitch is that there’s a whole market for IP like patents and algorithms that’s currently untapped.

A new kind of startup that’s looking to help you find a good roommate through the internet.

"Growth Hack" is the second-most cited book on Amazon.com, after The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

A startup for what the founders call “digital assets”

A startup that is building a portable robot that can help lift heavy objects. The robot is made with a mix of plastic and metal and can lift up to 40 pounds.

A platform that helps fashion brands find emerging designers and helps them take their designs from “somewhere in the world” to “some place in the world”.

A platform for community-based projects that taps into the power of the “sharing economy”.

A platform for engaging in adventure activities with your friends and family.

A tool for “geocaching” that helps hides be found.

A robot that cleans wounds and sores.

A tool for entrepreneurs and business owners to manage their sales pipeline.

A startup that creates a suite of tools to help companies recruit, interview, and hire.

A startup that sells and rents computing power to companies.

A digital health system that connects people with health professionals in their home country. The startup just launched in Brazil in May.

A social network for pet owners, where owners can post photos of their pets, find like-minded people, and post and discuss questions about their choices for pets.

The company is building a way to make it easier for people to donate their time to charitable organizations.

An online marketplace for the sharing of cars. Carpool is already in cities in the US and Europe, but the founders want to expand it to Africa and Asia.

A web-based system that helps charities, non-profits and organizations raise and manage funds.

A tool for producers and directors to create marketing videos, with a focus on how to use a camera and lighting to tell a story.

A “smart wallet” that uses crypto to make purchases and payments. The startup has raised $11.5M to date.

a startup that uses robots to cut and assemble plastics and other materials

A software platform for scheduling interviews that uses AI to reduce the number of times you have to call employers for the same job

Idea: A software company that wants to build project management applications that are smarter and easier to use than what’s available today

A real-time, location-based messaging platform for restaurants, bars, and other businesses.

A product that lets users create their own video games using a minimal amount of code. The startup currently has more than 125,000 games on its platform.

A home rental platform. The startup wants to let people rent out their homes. It’s a very young company, so it’s not clear how they’ll get the number of renters needed to make a dent in the real estate market.

An online-only financial planning service for young professionals. It charges $10 per month, and provides a set of tools to help young people prepare for their first home purchases.

an online showcase of emerging artists, curated by a curatorial team. The site showcases a rotating selection of the best of a given category of art, and promotes the artists on social media and in the press.

"The Definitive Guide to SaaS for CMOs: Understanding the Business Model and Marketing Value of Software as a Service" (2018)

A startup that helps users navigate the legal process when dealing with the government. The startup has been working with regulators in Malaysia to implement a compliance platform for businesses.

Sellout is a collaborative video editing platform that aims to build on the more popular iOS app Procreate. In addition to the apps, the team behind the app has launched a website and a community forum to promote and discuss the project.

A platform for banks to build lending products for small businesses in emerging markets.

A company that creates communication and decision making tools for the digital classroom.

A “do-it-yourself” set of financial tools for people looking to manage their finances.

The startup works with the government of India’s Ministry of Defence to help small businesses in India get their hands on Defense Ministry-related contracts. The startup’s founder, Sumit Goel, is a former officer in the Indian Navy.

A platform for self-service cloud storage that’s available on the web and mobile, and is backed by $8.2 million from investors including Sequoia.

This is a SaaS that provides a platform to help B2B companies with their analytics and sales.

A startup that uses machine learning to make the hiring process more efficient for employers and workers.

A company that provides consultant services to companies in need of help getting their employees trained on topics like cyber security or diversity.

A startup that aggregates offline data on a device and allows it to be accessed by other applications.

A startup for people who care about the environment. The startup is working to create a marketplace for “environmental products” wherein a company can sell their own environmentally-friendly products and make money off of the idea that their customers are willing to pay more to buy products that are eco-friendly.

A startup that makes it easy for organizations to manage a portfolio of digital and physical assets. The startup wants to help companies manage everything from physical files to web assets to partner websites.

This startup is building a toolset for software developers to quickly create more secure apps.

A tool that helps people find the right legal representation, based on their case. The startup is building an AI tool to help people find the right attorney for their situation.

A SaaS platform to help companies quickly build and manage apps using public and private cloud. The company is currently cash-flow positive with over 100 paying customers.

This startup is developing a software platform to help local food producers and farmers grow and distribute their crops and foods.

A platform that lets you grow your own marijuana, and then consume it at your leisure.

This startup uses AI to detect insurance fraud and

A digital marketplace for buying, selling and renting security cameras. The company positions themselves as an eBay for security cameras.

A tool that helps students plan their courses and track their progress, with a focus on younger students.

This San Francisco-based startup is building a platform for businesses to manage the entire range of legal and regulatory compliance tasks.

A platform to help people choose between different jobs, then find the one that’s the best fit for them.

A startup that uses machine learning to identify fraud and money laundering in transactions between banks.

A daily newsletter about startups, with stories and profiles, written by a team that includes 500-hour Y Combinator alum.

A technology company that helps doctors manage and teach medical students and residents.

This startup wants to help organizations get to know their employees better. It works by having employees log in once a day, and review their own and their manager’s performance on a dashboard.

A startup that helps people find and hire people for jobs that are not traditional office jobs, like bartending, dog-walking, or light house-keeping.

Company is building a platform for online retailers to manage inventory.

A platform that helps small businesses manage their online advertising campaigns, with a focus on getting more people to sign up for email marketing lists. They charge $239 per month.

A platform for simple, instant mobile phone payments for businesses. The company is hoping to serve as a payment gateway for developers hoping to make their apps easier to use.

A software development company that wants to fix the “diversity gap” in Silicon Valley. The company’s co-founder says that men make up around 80% of the tech workforce, and women only 4% (and that the industry is even worse in other parts of the world).

A startup that uses real-time video analytics to help law enforcement track criminal activity.

a telemedicine startup that wants to make remote and “high-touch” healthcare services more accessible to the masses.

A company that plans to create a new kind of payments system that is more secure, transparent, and consistent across the globe. It aims to be a way for the entire world to transact in cash.

Made for use by beauty brands, ByNu is a $10 per month subscription service that breaks down your email marketing and social media data into a visual dashboard that shows you which of your social media posts perform the best.

“Best of Philly” Awards by the Philadelphia City Paper:

Want to get your employees to pay attention to their company’s social media presence but don’t want to manage the content yourself

A chatbot that allows you to book meetings directly on the Slack platform.

A platform that allows people to sell their things, whether they’re used or new.

A new way for people to buy and sell goods and services that’s built for the Snapchat generation. Rather than the traditional auction-style marketplaces, the startup is looking to create a “Buy It Now” marketplace.

A startup that helps companies with product development. Their software is meant to help companies manage the workflows for their products, from idea to launch.

Personal assistant software for Android and iOS that helps people keep track of their finances. The startup has raised $1 million in seed funding from investors including 500 Startups.

A startup that helps you find the best local movers and shakers in your city. It’s a bit like Nextdoor, but for moving services.

A startup that is working on an injectable drug that will help heal damaged nerve fibers. They’re working on a treatment for a degenerative disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, which is caused by damage to the peripheral nerves.

A platform for community management built on the Slack platform.

A digital wallet that makes it easy to track spending and get money back.

A startup that finds local businesses listed in Yelp and Zomato, and allows users to connect with them for food orders.

A platform to help you find the right products, services, and people to help you plan your wedding and other special events, while also providing you with access to a network of trusted professionals.

A SaaS platform that connects businesses with a variety of contract workers, such as cleaners, drivers, and more.

A way to keep track of your health insurance, insurance claims, and health care expenses.

Competing with other messaging apps, Tello wants to deliver SMS and MMS messages through the WhatsApp app instead of via a phone carrier.

A wearable sensor that helps detect motion and alert you when someone is approaching your home.

A tool for letting people track the amount of time it takes for their ideas to be converted into action. It’s an interesting concept for a startup, but has already run into problems with privacy.

A way to help consumers create a custom playlist.

A platform that lets retailers choose which products they want to sell, curate them on the Amazon-like site, and then set the pricing, shipping, and other options. The idea is to help retailers manage their supply chain, rather than having to manage every item by hand.

A startup that aims to bring the world of cryptocurrency to the mainstream. The company has already built a mobile wallet and the company is now working on an exchange platform that will make it easy for people to buy and sell their digital currencies.

A text-to-speech app that translates text into any language, then sends the audio to a bank of speakers with deep learning built into the app.

A platform that uses machine learning to find U.S. jobs that are in high demand, like software engineering and truck driving.

This startup is building a platform that allows users to book tattoos online. The platform will allow clients to view their tattoos in 3D and choose designs, colors and sizes.

A tool that allows people to create their own personalized product pages on Etsy by uploading photos and text.

A startup for freelancers, providing a venue where employers and freelancers can use an “open-source” to find and hire each other.

A platform that helps collaborate with content creators and video editors so the team can focus on the video editing, rather than the content creation.

A “hiring engine” for freelance jobs, which bridges the distance between freelancers and businesses.

This startup is building an app that helps creative professionals manage their network, including connecting them with designers and engineers.

This startup wants to create a real-time marketplace for the Indian farmer market. It will use a mobile app to help farmers connect with buyers on their mobile phones. The company wants to help farmers sell their products faster and easier.

A content management system for journalists and other writers, designed to make their writing process more efficient.

The online platform for signing up for U.S. green cards.

A startup that aims to make the act of sending and receiving money as simple and friction-free as possible. Cred is a fully digital, mobile, and online solution that is as easy to use as an ATM.

A payments company that serves high-volume ecommerce merchants. It’s in the process of launching a service that will enable online sellers to offer rewards to buyers.

This startup wants to help small businesses create, manage, and share Google Docs spreadsheets directly from their phone.

a mobile payments system for India. The startup is pitching itself as a cheaper alternative to the likes of Google Wallet and Paytm.

Idea: A startup that is building an end-to-end solution for businesses making hardware to help them get funded and bring their product to market. They want to automate a lot of the backend work needed to launch hardware like creating a company and getting funding.

Measuring the legal and ethical impact of social media.

Breaking down the barriers that keep people from getting to their college of choice.

A financial services startup focusing on the needs of business owners, who often struggle to deal with taxes and other financial demands.

A platform that lets people shop for health insurance without worrying about whether they’ll sign up for the coverage they want.

This B2B company wants to help companies manage suppliers, service providers, and contractors.

A startup that helps you discover, rate, and review places to see live music.

An open source project that offers an infrastructure for building bitcoin-based businesses.

A company that builds and manages software that helps the processing and management of HR, payroll, payroll tax and other human resource information.

Software that helps people set up their online store with Shopify.

A decentralized communications company with a focus on legal and regulatory compliance. The company is building out its technology to allow lawyers to create and manage documents via a chatbot.

A new modern camera made with 3D printing.

A startup building an inventory management system for manufacturers that sifts through the internet and aggregates data from a variety of sources such as warehouses, manufacturers, and shipping companies to provide a more complete view of inventory.

A platform that helps online retailers elevate their brand by creating personalized marketing campaigns and creating a more enjoyable shopping experience.

A consumer-facing product that helps users manage their money by giving them access to their bank account and budget, with the help of an AI.

A digital health startup that is developing a wearable device that can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other degenerative diseases. The startup is looking to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo.

A platform to help people get more out of their money by calculating the cost of their life and retirement. The startup currently has 38,000 users and is growing by 1,000 a month.

The startup is looking to build an app that enables customers to buy pre-made meals (think take-out) within a few minutes.

Spacetrip is building a way to book space on a rocket. The startup is aiming to make a point-to-point orbital spaceflight booking service a reality, with a fully operational rocket by 2020.

A tool that helps customers buy stuff on Amazon using a debit card. It’s also an Amazon marketplace to receive payments.

A company that’s building software to help people find medical care. The startup is building a marketplace so people can buy health care directly from doctors and other medical professionals.

A micro-retailer selling premium coffee beans and selling their brand in retail locations

A platform that offers financial services, with a focus on the unbanked and underserved.

A merchant-focused transaction app for restaurants and bars.

A company that helps companies and organizations raise money from new and existing investors, including Angel investors, venture capitalists, family offices and more.

A company that wants to provide more transparency in the cryptocurrency markets. Its platform allows trading between buyers and sellers to be performed without any middlemen.

This is a marketplace where people can sell their expired Amazon and eBay gift cards, with a small percentage of the proceeds going to charity. The startup takes a cut from each sale.

This startup is building a digital bank account in India. The founders say it’s a simpler, cheaper alternative to the physical ATM cards found in most cities.

A software that helps users track down their stolen or lost smartphones.

A startup that wants to get the word out about great natural beauty products

A startup that makes your car’s dashboard more stylish through software.

An automated phone system for people dealing with anxiety and depression, the idea is to free up employees to work on other things.

A new kind of financial tool for freelancers and people who work on-demand. It’s a way for people to run their finances and see where their money is going.

A platform for employers to share their job listings, allowing them to see which candidates are the right fit for the role.

A platform that matches drivers with loads and routes, and drivers with loads. The startup focuses on drivers who want to earn extra income, and it has been operating for the past three years.

A platform that lets people deposit checks with a smartphone camera, without having to physically write a check.

A startup that curates user-generated content from many of the most popular social networks.

The startup is building a platform for companies to manage a supply chain as a service, which means they’re not tied to one single supplier, but can select from an array of suppliers for any given product.

A credit card that eliminates overdraft fees by using a line of credit, which is funded by a credit card so the user can pay their bills without paying interest.

A startup that is building a way to help consumers find great deals and discounts on their favorite products and services. The startup has built an AI engine that scours the web to find the best deals and sends them to users through email.

A team that says it’s building the “Netflix for video game streaming”. The startup is building a platform that allows game developers to sell their games through smart contracts that can be easily integrated into other platforms.

The startup will deliver custom-made soundtracks to the home, so you can listen to it in your own car, or at work.

A startup that’s building a subscription service for which tech-savvy people share their homes for short periods of time to help make them more affordable for other people. The founders already have over 1,000 customers.

A startup that wants to help “thrive in an era of automation and cheap labor”. It’s a platform that helps businesses pick the right type of machine for the task, whether it’s for a B2B company or a manufacturing facility.

A SaaS business that helps small businesses bring on corporate credit cards.

A 3D printing solution for printing custom parts on demand, or as a service for companies with regular customers.

A platform that helps women get into tech, by launching entrepreneurship bootcamps and mentorship programs.

Idea: A drone startup that's been working with Amazon for the last two years, and is now moving into a larger market It’s currently piloting its service in Peru

A company that builds drone delivery systems, using drones made by 3D Systems, for delivering packages to homes.

A network of “micro-insurance” companies that pool together small sums of money to help cover the costs of things like housing, car repair, or medical bills. The goal is to make sure that people have some sort of coverage, even if it’s just in case they need it.

DesiChat is a messaging app for long-distance friends in India and Pakistan. After setting up a user account, users can message one another via a phone number, email address, or a Facebook account.

A financial wellness platform that is designed to help people take control of their finances, instead of leaving it to a broker.

A company that provides a product that allows customers to share “things” with other members in exchange for money.

A company that is developing a technology that uses blockchain to track and trace a product’s journey from the farm to the home, to protect farmers and consumers from pests and contaminants.

A startup that offers a subscription service for small businesses that comes with a free package of everything you need in order to set up your business.

An online platform to help people find a new dentist, with the goal of saving them time and money.

A chatbot that integrates with your email and helps you manage your inbox. The chatbot is designed to be able to answer questions about email and work.

An employee-owned co-living space in the heart of New York City in which residents can rent private rooms for $1,000 a month with monthly fees of $200.

A tool for corporate recruiters to pitch job candidates to companies directly, cutting down on the time spent managing the process.

A platform that helps people increase their sales by training their reps, providing them with data and tools

A way to bring the B2B world back together in the form of a platform for companies to manage the sales process. Proposer uses a local sales rep to act as a “gatekeeper” who can then go out and talk to customers on behalf of the company.

"This list of startups is a non-exhaustive collection of the best companies funded by YC. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all startups funded by YC. Regardless, we'll be publishing additional startups funded by YC at a later date."

A company that provides a platform for the next generation of online video, allowing users to share video on-demand and across social networks. It’s a place for creators and users to share and interact with content on-demand.

A startup that helps people get to know each other on the internet, in a social media-like way.

A machine learning platform that allows developers to create a predictive model of their own products, testing whether it can predict sales.

A tool for tracking the performance of marketing automation tools, allowing users to review how well they’re working.

A company that wants to make wearable tech more accessible to customers who can’t afford or don’t want to purchase it

A company that builds 3D-printed prosthetic hands and other medical devices that can be 3D-printed at home, with a focus on helping veterans.

A startup that helps small businesses in the US and beyond streamline their sales and HR processes, with a focus on increasing customer engagement and reducing costs.

A web-based tool for marketing automation.

This startup is building a free, secure, and encrypted messaging platform with end-to-end encryption.

A company working to connect “smart cities” around the world, hoping to connect smart devices and smart city infrastructure.

A company that creates communication and decision making tools for the digital classroom.

A product management platform for agencies, developers, and designers that helps companies plan, identify, prioritize, and integrate features for their software applications.

A company that helps small businesses create marketing collateral without using their own design team

A company that wants to help business owners learn how to create a “customer-centric culture.”

A startup that is building a platform for companies to better communicate with their customers

This is a company that helps companies get customer feedback from users as they’re testing new products and services.

A company that uses a personalized approach to help a person change a habit by writing a custom program to help an individual cut down on a certain behavior.

This is a platform for connecting brands and retailers. The company is building their own online marketplace for brands to sell merchandise, and brands can also get list of retailers and products they can sell to. They have over 10 brands on their platform.

A digital library for digital comics.

A platform that allows consumers to pay for products using Bitcoin. The company is not accepting outside funding.

An API for building virtual reality apps, as well as a VR headset, as a way to create a new type of “VR search engine”.

A company that offers pay-as-you-go and monthly subscriptions for internet-connected gadgets.

The engineers behind this startup are using a “data-driven” approach to build a better email marketing platform. The company’s CEO says that email marketing is better than ever.

This startup is building a better way to find local services. The company is taking a data-driven approach to finding services for residents in a given city and helping them find what they are looking for.

A way to track and share the process of finding a new job, which can be time-consuming for employers.

A function that can be applied to any type of email. The goal is to be able to remove and manage spam and reduce email volume.

A startup focused on helping startups scale quickly by providing a forum for other startups to work with.

A startup that is building an employee engagement platform.

A startup for managing student loans, connecting students with lenders and helping them get the best deals.

This startup wants to be the Amazon of the home. The idea is to make a marketplace for house-goods, where sellers can list what they have and buyers can filter options and place orders.

An AI that can ingest photos and identify plants, animals, and other objects in the photos.

This startup is building an AI-powered role playing game, “The Sims” for financial advisors.

A hybrid life insurance company that combines traditional life insurance with a private-sector investment arm.

A startup that lets users search for random words and phrases to get a list of the most popular results.

A video editing tool for creators looking to create their own

A tool for the world’s leading companies to track and measure employee time, with the goal of creating a better, more productive workforce.

A startup that allows users to create a digital portfolio and display work in an online gallery

A marketing tool for crowdfunding platforms that helps founders and project managers track projects and keep track of fundraising progress.

A similar service to Slack for teams working from home

A startup that allows people to track their friends’ social lives and determine if they’re getting enough sleep.

A new company that solves the problem of building and managing data pipelines and data warehouses. Founded in 2014, the company is still based in San Francisco and raising its Series A.

What sounds like a feedback app for designers, but it’s actually an app that helps people manage the paper work involved in starting a business.

A business that connects people with local caretakers and property managers

Idea: A smart wallet that understands how you spend your money

A product recommendation engine that looks at the user's preferences in a typical internet application and recommends other related items.

A startup that is trying to build a platform for real-time user testing. Users browse a website, click on a button, and record their experience. The startup has raised $1.5 million to date.

This startup is building a way to protect the public from fake news, by offering a service that will check and verify which news stories you see on Facebook.

A company that aims to make corporate communications more efficient and less paper-heavy, giving employees the ability to communicate with their teams in a visual, shareable manner in real time.

SaaS business that helps businesses manage their supply chains in a digital fashion.

A platform for the open-source community to share best practices for building software.

A platform for selling online courses and subscriptions, allowing students to take online courses for credit and work towards certifications.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to get the most out of their devices. They want to help people find the apps and tools they need to get work done. Side Note: That’s what we call an original idea.

A way to track parking tickets and fines, and to track meter time for parking tickets.

This startup is building a platform for people who are interested in becoming independent contractors, and for their customers, who like the idea of having a personal assistant without needing to hire one, or without even having to leave the house.

A product for education companies that helps them connect through online training programs. It’s used by companies including Whole Foods, Warner Brothers, and the United Way.

A tool for replacing the IT helpdesk, which has traditionally been a painful process for end users.

A company that launched a Kickstarter campaign to find a team to help companies get better at implementing agile processes. They think they've found a winning formula, and want to hire people to help ten companies to adapt their processes to the lean startup model.

A machine learning company that is working on sophisticated facial recognition software for use in retail.

This startup offers an automated accounting service for small businesses.

A web-based business that helps companies with a range of issues, including risk management, HR, and health and safety. The company uses AI and machine learning to make sense of insurance claims data.

A personalized video strategy for people with diabetes, including training and materials. The company is looking to build a community of users to help them monetize the platform.

On-demand software for human resources (HR) teams. It automates the hiring process, removes the stress of finding the right people, and streamlines data collection and reporting for HR teams.

A startup that provides credit unions with a way to send alerts and build better relationships with members.

A company that builds a software-as-a-service platform that helps people manage their wealth.They provide a way to create a savings plan that’s customizable based on the user’s specific needs. They also provide a digital portfolio that allows people to manage all of their financial accounts in one place.

This is an app for getting around the price and quality problems of a typical cup of coffee.

A software for giving doctors feedback on medical records.

A library of over 1,700 video lectures for developers on the entire set of AWS services.

A company that provides loans for small businesses and for entrepreneurs. The company has built its business on the idea that the best way to connect people with needs to resources is via their own networks.

A platform for professional development to help people learn coding. The startup is focused on the education market, but it’s also looking to help businesses develop their own coding skills.

This is a tool to help people make better decisions about their financial lives. The company wants to help people crunch and visualize financial data in order to make better decisions. Part of that is tracking their spending.

A computer vision startup that wants to use machine learning and image recognition to make product photos more complete. The startup says their technology can improve the accuracy of product photos 40% with claims to be able to identify colors, shapes and other features of products.

Vouched is an online healthcare platform for insurance, where people can find doctors and hospitals, get advice, and pay all in one place.

A platform that’s meant to make it easier for people to manage their health care, by connecting services with each other.

A tool for keeping track of the people who are responsible for delivering a project.

A startup that wants to create an online store that uses artificial intelligence to automatically find and purchase items that match a customer’s taste and preferences.

This “Airbnb for Doctors” is letting people rent out their homes and apartments for temporary medical offices.

A startup that wants to make it possible for people to pay rent with a self-owned credit card. The startup is completely mobile, allowing renters to pay their rent on the go, and send the payment to their landlord through the app.

Web and mobile app for freelancers and small businesses to manage projects and invoicing quickly.

A parking app for drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes a phone app, an app for drivers and a website for drivers to browse available parking spots. The startup has about 3,000 drivers and about 3,000 parking spots.

A startup that provides a service where people can pay a professional to do something for them that they are procrastinating on

A mobile app that helps people find nearby parking as they drive for their carpools, ride-hailing, or public transit.

A startup that helps teachers organize their classroom via a virtual classroom that allows them to share resources, record ideas and chat with other teachers.

Idea: Schedule, organize, and pay for a group vacation

A company that’s building a dashboard for cities to track the impact of their programs and metrics for investors. It’s looking to target dozens of cities, from Portland to Detroit.

A startup that tracks the things you buy, and lets you know when you’re running low on a product

An online tool for managing invoices and bills from other vendors.

A company that sells a subscription app designed to help people control and manage their finances.

A meal-kit delivery service like Blue Apron or Plated, but aimed at people who like to cook and pay for it themselves.

A startup that wants to help secure payments by creating a payments platform that’s easy for small businesses to use.

A technology that helps retailers track customer activity from the moment a customer opens the door to the moment they leave.

The startup provides ridesharing to people who need help moving, but who don’t want it to be a big hassle.

A company that creates and services custom “device-agnostic” software, building on the idea that most organizations don’t just have one, but many devices that need to be managed.

A platform that allows businesses to quickly access data from their own or partner’s existing credit cards.

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A startup that makes it easy for businesses to develop their own line of credit cards and then sell them to other businesses.

A tool that helps companies monitor their employees’ smartphone usage, with the ability to monitor their location, time spent on their device, and screen time for each employee.

A wearable technology company, based in San Francisco, that makes apparel and accessories that measure in real time and track your activity. It has some of the lowest prices in the industry, and is a contender with the other big players.

A new way to pay invoices online by eliminating the need to create and manage invoices. It allows online businesses to set up an account, specify a range of invoice amounts, and enter payment amounts.

A company that provides a platform that allows companies to operate mobile-only stores.

A company that focuses on tracking and sharing what employees are reading. The startup, which gives employers access to a data set of over 30 million books read, wants to make people more productive.

A company that helps providers manage their own dental, vision, and life insurance needs. It doesn’t offer a traditional insurance product, yet covers 100% of a doctor’s out of pocket costs if they’re hospitalized.

A real estate data platform that lets people sell and buy homes directly with one another.

Idea: A virtual reality startup for the e-commerce industry It wants to help online retailers build VR ads and other virtual experiences

A startup that enables people to share their ideas with each other. The platform is in private beta and is looking for users to test it out and share feedback.

The startup is building its own 2-way messaging service for local groups in the U.S., which it says will help groups organize their events and events organizers get in touch with people.

ikitd is a meetup-like community that offers users a place to share ideas, experience, and learn from others. The startup offers a way to organize and share ideas.

A startup based in San Francisco that wants to help people get data on loans.

This startup is building a “decentralized crypto wallet” that allows users to store their crypto on their own device, rather than a centralized cloud.

A tool that allows people to create a professional profile on LinkedIn, complete with a portfolio, cover letter, and any other information they want to include.

A startup that helps people find affordable housing in cities like New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco (and other cities too).

A portfolio website for freelancers, where people can comment on each other's work, hire one another with a single click, and get paid in bitcoin.

A tool that helps small businesses find loan applications and other financial services, including asset-based loans for startups. The startup takes a 20% commission.

An online platform to help people find a new dentist, with the goal of saving them time and money.

This startup is building a universal tool for “real time fraud prevention” for businesses in the UK.

Helping small businesses manage all of their IT needs. The startup has 100 clients already and is looking for $1 million in seed funding.

A real estate broker is building an application that helps people buy, sell, and rent their homes in order to make their lives easier.

A new kind of credit card that people use to pay for things, rather than just for rewards. FollowMyMoney is a full-service card, which includes a payment platform. It’s not a Visa card, but it’s meant to offer the same type of flexibility and rewards.

A company that offers loan products to small businesses at a lower interest rate than banks

A platform that gives you the ability to broadcast live video from your phone. The startup wants to bring a “Facebook Live” like experience to mobile devices, but with better quality.

A company that wants to create a platform that allows people to find, hire, and pay for home cleaners.

A digital bank that’s working with farmers and fisherman to get loans

The Y Combinator-backed startup is building a tool to help people buy affordable healthcare in the US.

A startup that helps people share their experiences with others. It pulls this content from Instagram, Reddit, and Twitter and turns it into a daily newsletter.

A project management platform that allows anyone to set tasks and track progress, even if they don’t have a team.

A startup that works with brands to raise awareness about products that are out of stock, or from niche brands that are hard to find.

A tool that allows you to create and manage your own variety of financial instruments. Think of it as a Pinterest and Facebook for financial funds, with a focus on helping people raise money from friends and family.

This startup is building a “mobile-first” scheduling tool for small to mid-sized businesses.

A healthcare solution for the elderly in developing countries.

A free email app that organizes your inbox without compromising your privacy

A platform to help people with a wealth of relationships manage and close deals.

A startup that allows developers to easily develop apps for blockchain technologies and ICOs.

One of the most significant investments to come out of Y Combinator in 2014 was a $500,000 seed funding round for Linchpin. The company has since been working on a tool that helps small business owners organize and market their brands. The company is looking to raise a $1.5 million seed round to reach the point of paying for itself.

A startup that helps store managers coordinate store store maintenance tasks for larger chains.

A "social entertainment network" – basically a streaming video network, similar to Netflix and Hulu, where users can pay a monthly subscription to access a library of movies and TV shows.

A smartphone app that allows employees to find the nearest cash and card-accepting ATM.

This startup is developing an Android SDK for building applications that can quickly enhance photos with face detection, blurring, or filters. The client-side SDK is for developers who want to build their own apps on top of the iOS app.

A “Smart” lock service that allows users to pay for their own locks.

Employer of choice for the health sector.

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A machine learning platform that helps companies optimize the use of their assets. They’re in private beta.

A company looking to help investors stick to their investment strategies.

A company that builds vehicle tracking devices for businesses like car washes to help them better understand their workers’ locations.

A start-up that wants to replace the messy and outdated process of filling out tax forms with a website that will do the whole job for you. Taxcobo’s CEO says his company can save you 10 hours of work a year, or about $1,000, and its employees are former tax professionals.

A self-driving electric bike that can be rented by the hour that launches in Q4 2019.

A tool that helps businesses track their social media posts to see how they’re doing.

A platform to create and distribute high-quality, curated content for marketing and education, including online courses and videos.

This startup wants to build bots for Slack and Slack’s chat-based messaging app. It’s focused on building bots that can schedule meetings, search for people, and do basic tasks like responding to messages.

A startup that helps you track and locate your pet and provides a platform for fostering and adopting dogs and cats.

A global payments platform for small- and medium-sized businesses. The startup wants to help those with limited credit or banking options get access to global trade finance.

It is a drop-in-a-bucket startup incubator in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. The company was founded in 2017 by former Google executive Brian Wieser. The company's mission is to foster entrepreneurship in the city of Los Angeles.

A dating app that serves to connect people with the same interests through a private group. It is a spinoff of the successful PopSurvey, which was acquired by LinkedIn

This company is building software that helps people go through their saved emails on the fly by quickly scanning them with their phone.

A platform that hosts live-streaming events, allowing users to share the event they’re watching and interact with other viewers.

This startup helps publishers monetize their content through a crowdfunding program.

A company building a programmable, modular “smart” house. The company is currently building a smart-grid home in Portland, Oregon, and designed to be highly energy efficient and modular. The idea is that by building this type of home, the owner can install or upgrade the systems as she sees fit.

A SaaS solution for businesses to take credit card payments from their mobile devices, including ApplePay and Google Pay, and then process that payment through their preferred payment processor.

A data visualization platform that aims to provide the most accurate and complete reports for credit risk. The idea is to provide a dashboard for banks to track risk, allowing them to make better lending decisions and cut down on bad loans.

This startup wants to reduce the cost of purchasing and transporting food, building a hub to connect farmers to buyers via the internet through the use of smart contracts.

A graduate of Y Combinator and Google Brain, a startup spun out of Stanford’s machine learning lab that wants to make machine learning accessible to researchers by making it easy to train models without having to write code.

A mobile app and site that helps people to find places to jog and run, and then connect with other runners and trainers.

A startup for open hardware, allowing businesses to use pre-existing hardware in their own products.

This is a company that makes accountants for freelancers, with a focus on smaller companies that might not have the resources to create their own.

A startup that helps agents build their own website that looks like Instagram

A startup that lets people book restaurants online for days or weeks in advance.

This company wants to build a platform for sharing and trading solar power. It’s an open source alternative to solar exchange markets.

A platform for lenders to offer loans backed by real estate.

A company that says it helps teams collaborate better by combining the project management and collaboration tools found on Slack and Trello into one. They’re currently selling a $50 per month plan.

A streaming video platform that connects employers to candidates who want to be hired.

A new kind of search engine that uses AI to give answers to questions. It also works with an app on your phone to let you get answers without having to search for them.

An e-commerce platform that helps merchants design and promote their own physical stores.

A supply chain management tool for small businesses that manages everything from physical inventory to internal supply chains. The service is aimed at businesses with under 100 employees and is currently in private beta.

An online marketplace for small businesses to collaborate, where they can share resources, receive feedback from customers, and get more business. They charge businesses $5 per month per person to join, and charge businesses $500 a month to become a Vendor.

The startup helps businesses find and vet contractors, either with a mobile app or through an online portal.

A software platform that helps companies create an online presence. It helps businesses manage their websites and online marketing campaigns while making it easier for customers to contact them.

A family-friendly AI chatbot that allows grocery shoppers to chat with the AI through voice or text to help them pick out the best deals. The company says it’s already up and running in grocery chains like Walmart.

A company that helps companies incorporate as S-Corps. In October, the company raised $10 million in funding.

A mobile app that tracks the mileage a person drives on their car, for use in calculating miles per gallon taxes. The startup has signed up more than 300,000 drivers, and has just begun rolling out to more drivers in the UK.

A company that wants to help you make better decisions about what to eat, based on what you read. A differentiator is that it works with only local farmers and eateries.

A way to make it easier for people to take a photo of a receipt and share it with others, so they can get reimbursed.

A system that helps you create compelling presentations by automatically capturing slides, then automatically creating videos for your content.

A startup that delivers food and groceries to people who are at home, not just those who can actually cook.

A platform for helping creative teams organize and track their work.

A startup that allows users to create short video clips that act as virtual “emojis” for text messages.

An online campaign management platform that helps companies monitor and steer the conversation around their products, products that might otherwise get drowned out in the noise of social media.

A startup that connects consumers with their favorite TV shows in a more intuitive way.

This personal finance startup plans to help people make better financial decisions–based on AI and behavioral science. It hopes to use machine learning to help users make better decisions based on data, rather than allowing people to just “use their gut”. The company is based in San Francisco, but is looking to hire a CTO.

A software company that helps other companies find the right people and superfans to help them build their product.

A software developer’s startup is building an online platform that helps developers have greater visibility into their projects. The company’s CEO says it solves the problem of having to constantly check in on progress of each project.

A “community for digital nomads”, focused on sharing experiences and connecting with other digital nomads.

$50 app that connects people with items they’re looking for (think Ikea showroom product search).

A technology that allows companies to drive better pricing for their customers, and thus increase their revenue.

A startup that helps teens take over their parents’ student debt.

The startup sells a subscription-based email inbox that reduces the noise, clutter, and time it takes to respond to email, enabling users to focus on the important stuff.

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A startup that’s building a way for people to pay bills online. The startup is a YC alum and has raised $1.3M from investors.

A startup that wants to make it easy for companies to have a way to keep track of their products’ life cycles. The plan is to sell the idea to the likes of HP, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

A startup that turns Facebook into a universal customer service ticketing system for companies. There are no fees for companies to get their tickets listed on the platform and brands can post customer service conversations on the site.

a startup that wants to help you find an electrician or plumber from a group of local pros. All you have to do is plug in the city and zip code.

The company announced that it was expanding its operations to a new location in the West Loop at 767 W. Randolph, Chicago

Helping employees track their paychecks and see their own data in a clearer way.

A company that wants to bring health insurance to the world’s poorest. The startup is already in talks with the government of the Philippines about expanding the product, and is sending representatives to India to talk about it too.

Team managing the creation of a digital version of a physical game. Started as a team working on video games, it now has a mobile game in production, with the goal of using the startup’s technology to expand into a broader gaming experience.

A startup for finding and booking travel that uses a bank of 5,000 itineraries to provide personal customization. It’s in the phase of becoming a booking site, with a desktop app in development, and a plan to open it up to all users.

A platform that lets you see if you can save money on your next car purchase.

A solution for people who don’t have easy access to email, with email as an optional extra. The platform allows people to manage email by using a calendar app.

A tool that lets employees in a company collaborate on documents and then discuss them in real-time

"A platform for philanthropy," focused on making it easier for individuals to give to causes.

The Summer 2018 batch of startups included 15 companies, including:

A platform to help merchants sell direct to consumers through Facebook.

A community for teachers to connect and share resources.

An email marketing service built to help small businesses, startups and freelancers grow their email lists and boost their sales. It offers a free plan for businesses with up to five contacts.

A startup that wants to make buying gift cards more efficient by allowing gift card holders to sell unused cards online.

A web service that crowdsources customer feedback on products.

A startup that enables employees to build their own private Slack channel. It’s a Slack channel for employees to communicate internally, with features like real-time chat, file sharing, and video conferencing.

Using AI technology, the startup is building a system that lets companies predict software bugs using machine learning.

A startup that has developed a way to transfer data between electronic devices in real-time.

A tool that helps users share their life in a more meaningful way

A startup that helps businesses 'tell their story' in a way that's more useful for their customers.

This app is a replacement for spreadsheets. The app helps users manage every aspect of their finances, including contracts, invoices, and approvals. The startup offers a monthly subscription fee for the software and gives users a free trial period.

This startup is building a tool that lets companies charge their employees for taking time off or for using the company’s own time. The service is meant to make work more flexible while also giving companies a way to track time.

A group of companies that want to make it easier for companies to construct custom products from metal and plastic.

A text-to-speech app that converts text from your email into spoken words, making it easier to communicate through email.

A company that helps Indian startups with low-cost capital

A free stock-photo website that offers a $5 monthly membership, or a $200 monthly membership that allows some extra features, like an Apple News subscription

The B2B software company is a go-to provider of enterprise messaging for utilities.

A company that helps designers create custom-made leather goods for clients.

Google’s self-driving cars aren’t ready for the public yet, but that hasn’t stopped some people from building their own. The startup, which is based in San Francisco, is helping others build their own self-driving car kits in the hopes of creating a viable alternative to the Google car.

An AI system for decision-making, designed to work hand-in-hand with human decision-makers.

A B2B company that helps individuals buy and sell used cars and trucks.

A dating site for people who don’t want to date people of the opposite sex.

A visual collaboration tool for realtors, which allows them to create virtual walk-throughs of homes and homesites.

A startup that provides insights on the health of a company’s workforce, ranging from work-related stress to nutrition and sleep, and converting them into targeted interventions like health coaching, education, and more.

A startup to help brands and marketers who want to promote their products on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

A platform that allows consumers to make payments online for new or used products, and then track their orders.

Other companies accepted into YC include:

A company that’s building a software product that enables people to rent out their spare bedrooms to travelers through a website.

A social networking tool for the fashion industry. The company says the platform will allow the fashion world to make more informed decisions about buying, selling and marketing.

A company that’s building a global marketplace for products and services from freelancers and contractors.

A startup that sends users a box of physical books for every month they sign up for.

A virtual assistant for legal professionals and paralegals. The startup is built to help lawyers navigate complicated legal documents, from contracts to wills.

This startup wants to remove complexity from the process of booking flights by connecting airlines directly to hotels. The startup currently has a pilot with 10 hotels in Philadelphia, and plans for expansion to the whole of the US by the end of 2019.

A toolkit that helps people create their own apps, web sites, and software products.

A startup that uses AI and machine learning to help companies predict their customers’ behavior, and to craft customer experiences better suited to those behaviors.

The following startups have left TechStars Boston since the program’s start in 2011 and are no longer affiliated with the program:

Idea : A mobile app that enables people to quickly book and pay for their parking tickets in the UK.

A social network built for black professionals. It’s a version of Facebook for black professionals that’s designed for different demographics, with features like a photo gallery and a newsfeed that’s tuned for black users.

A credit platform for small businesses in the U.S., with plans to add a debit card option in the future.

A startup that provides a directory of people in your area who are willing to do small tasks for you (IE: I pay $25 and you go get my laundry washed and cleaned at the dry cleaner)

A blockchain-based system for sharing and tracking data about the ocean, from ocean acidification to pollution to tropical fish

A tool for software engineers to track what they’re working on and when, and to take their projects to the next level.

A company that aims to bring remote tech support to the UK. It’s currently in the midst of an $8.5M seed round led by Union Square Ventures.

This startup is building a tool to automatically generate landing pages for your campaign. The startup is a Y Combinator alum, having raised a seed round in 2013.

A system for connecting men with men for same-direction relationships

A startup that aims to be the "Uber of dog walks." The company plans to use the same GPS technology that powers Uber rides for a service that will be more convenient for pet owners.

A home Wi-Fi router with an app to manage it. The startup wants to provide a way to manage home routers with an app instead of the current manual process.

A platform that helps universities and colleges create personalized online learning programs for students and teachers.

A company that lets you tag the notes you take on your computer by voice. It’s a product of a collaboration between the founders of the video editing app Snagit and the note-taking app Evernote.

Helping restaurant chains manage their menus.

A platform that lets users create virtual reality content using HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets.

A startup that helps employees manage their expenses. The startup plans to launch in the first half of 2017.

A mobile payments company that provides a way to pay in-app purchases through Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay.

A personal assistant that helps people save money.

A startup that sells essential oil diffusers

A startup for money transfers in emerging markets that focuses on small businesses and individuals.

A platform for giving customers access to their own credit ratings and scores.

A startup that’s partnering with local restaurant brands to deliver their food via drone.

This startup aims to help employers and employees find each other on LinkedIn. It’s currently in closed beta.

A self-funded, fast-growing accelerator for retail ventures and consumer brands.

A startup that allows you to create your own cryptocurrency wallet, taking a portion of the transaction fees to keep the site running.

A workplace culture survey system. The startup is building a platform that helps recruiters recruit better by pulling together data from a variety of sources, including surveys, transparent reviews from past employers, and social media.

A way for teams to organize and share knowledge.

A company that helps people figure out what action they need to take to save money on their bills.

A startup that helps SMBs (small to medium sized businesses) through their supply chain by tracking products, manufacturing, and shipping.

A product for doctors to use in the exam room to help them understand what their patients need and how to provide it.

A tool for selling and managing retail inventory via a mobile app and website.

A concept business that offers a service that allows people to share experiences via photos and videos.

A startup that provides a service where people can send letters to their children and they’ll write back on their behalf

A company that makes earbuds made with medical-grade silicone with no wires for more sensitive ears and better sound quality.

A company that handles the billing for companies that offer paid subscriptions to their services. They’ve been in business for 5 months.

A company that helps people figure out their credit score and offers a tool to help avoid debt and improve credit.

A product for people who want to use a tablet for the road for some part of their work

A platform for helping consumers shop for and price items

A payroll company for Amazon and other online retail businesses. It’s a SaaS service that helps Amazon sellers manage their workers and payments.

This company is building the next generation of the internet of things device. The startup can send notifications to sensors, over Bluetooth, on smartphones, and even on laptops with a gesture.

A company that makes it cheaper to travel to Europe, the UK, and the US. It’s based in London and is looking to grow with the help of a $250,000 series A round.

A platform that brings together all of the services that a company needs to attract and retain talent, like career counseling, HR, and employee benefits.

A startup that helps you plan your trip to the beach, from finding the cheapest flight, to finding the best hotel.

A tool for mobile developers that lets you build custom keyboards for certain devices.

A platform for artists to create videos of their paintings and sell them to people who can’t make it to their home.

A web-based platform for financial planning, with an AI that helps users make better financial decisions through behavioral psychology.

A new tool for food entrepreneurs to make their delivery services more efficient, with a focus on making it easier for them to share their locations with customers.

A startup that makes your car more intelligent. It’s a dashboard to help you monitor your car’s health and make driving safer and more efficient.

A tool that helps people find and engage with influencers on Instagram with different metrics to measure campaign performance.

A startup that helps students get their transcripts online for free.

Thinking of building the most advanced and simple way to get customers to pay for their stuff. The company has already sold $1 million worth of credit cards, and they plan to expand to other countries.

The idea behind this startup is that there are 100s of millions of people who don’t use their car’s navigation system, but do know how to use their cellphones. The startup wants to solve the problem by building a service for people to use their phone’s GPS to give them directions.

A high-tech way to enable people to communicate with their doctors remotely. The company hopes to make that easier for everyone: patients, doctors, and caretakers.

This startup aims to help customers of the public transit network in Brazil. In order to provide a better experience, users will be able to use their phone to pay for tickets, track their transit schedule, and request rides.

A company that makes a smartphone app that is essentially a robo-advisor. The startup will use data from the app to make recommendations for the user.

A SaaS product that helps businesses optimize their in-store POS systems. The company currently has 12 employees and is based in San Francisco.

A company trying to get the price of medicines down with a direct-to-consumer sales channel. The company has partnered with big pharmaceutical companies to help them reduce their costs.

A platform for restaurant review sites to share data about their users.

A startup that helps people get the most out of the 1.5 million items they have stored in their kitchen and pantry with a web-based software that allows them to create shopping lists, organize items, and track purchases. They’re also developing a separate mobile app.

An AI-powered matching tool that connects employers with job seekers.

An ecommerce platform for food that’s grown organically and locally with a focus on freshness and sustainability.

A startup that creates low-cost, programmable electronics for the Internet of Things.

A startup that lets people shop for flights in bulk, then get free shipping on them.

A software company that provides a visual tool to visualize and understand communication flows.

OpenPlans is a software company that helps people find a new home to buy, using data from real estate brokers and public records. They’ve raised over $5 million to date, and are now focused on building a platform for other developers to build on.

A chatbot that helps personal financial management. The startup is looking to build a platform that aggregates data from a variety of online and offline sources to provide financial guidance and advice to its users.

A startup that lets people easily find nearby parking garages.

A platform for making and editing 3D models and rendering them in real-time, with a cloud-based service for sharing and collaboration.

A startup that makes it easy to get the right healthcare services, without the hassle of traveling to a separate clinic every time.

A platform for healthcare startups to grow their partnerships, build scale, and get investors. It aims to help sales efforts by making salespeople more efficient and giving them access to sales data in real time, which can help them close deals.

An open source online IDE for building mobile apps, spanning mobile platforms (iOS/Android/web) and programming languages (Java/C/C++).

An AI-powered text editor that helps you write more consistently

A freelance marketplace for coders, where developers and entrepreneurs can find each other to work on projects.

The startup aims to help brands make better use of their digital footprint by helping them determine what content is reaching their audience, and track changes. That’s the job of a social media analytics company, and Current uses data points from social media to help companies alert them when people in their audience are jumping from Facebook to Twitter for example.

A company that wants to “create the next generation of architecture” with “sustainable, sustainable” buildings. The company uses the idea of “architecture as a verb” to help people think about their buildings as the sum of the parts, not just the whole.

A genealogy app, marrying family trees and genealogy.

A startup that is building a tool that helps companies map out employees' preferred work hours and locations so they can more easily schedule work from home.

A “mobile app of the future”. The startup is building a platform that syncs with a person’s phone and card transactions, allowing them to make purchases and see their transactions on a cohesive dashboard. The company is looking to integrate with banks, credit card companies, and retailers.

This company is building a new way for people to get access to fresh, locally grown produce. The startup wants to make it easier for consumers to connect to local farmers and get them to market their products.

A platform that connects companies with designers and agencies to find and hire freelance designers.

This startup is building a marketplace for “sales-ready” websites and the themes they would be built around. The company provides their own hosting & domain names, but it’s up to the seller if they want to use them and with what.

An influencer marketing platform for advertisers, designed to help them work with social media stars to influence the purchase decisions of millions of consumers

A company building a tool for e-commerce companies to find the best possible locations to open new stores.

An on-demand concierge for other types of professional services, like accounting and business coaching.

This startup is building a way to connect merchants and consumers to their products and services through a deeper understanding of their personal needs and habits.

We’re seeing a trend of companies coming out with new ways to provide physical services, from ZzzZoom to I Am a Door, so it’s not exactly surprising to see a company that builds physical toys.

A voice-controlled messaging app that wants to use the power of AI to get people to talk to each other more.

"Crisp is a startup that makes it easy for online shoppers to access and buy the latest designer looks at a fraction of the price, with a guaranteed delivery date, within the UK"

Instead of having to manually create and manage your own social media pages, this startup is building a single platform for all your different social media accounts.

Big Data maps the world’s food. The startup analyzes agricultural data in real time to help farmers make more informed decisions about which crops to grow, where to plant them, and when to sell them.

A startup that wants to make live video marketing as simple as possible for brands. The company’s founders say they’ve already helped over 1,000 brands, and are having success with brands like Best Buy.

Idea: A mobile app trying to solve the ‘rejection’ problem that young students face when applying for jobs and internships A person can apply for jobs via the app and be notified if they’re not qualified, but it’s aimed at helping young people get over the shame of being rejected

A digital dashboard platform that helps small businesses and nonprofits track their monthly spending and optimize their finances.

A startup that makes a shared, portable USB charger that’s small enough to fit in a wallet, but can still power smartphones and tablets.

A local delivery business that can pick up your groceries from your local grocer, or your mail order from Amazon, and bring them to your doorstep. The service is geared towards people who are too busy to make their own shopping trips.

A startup that helps companies like Redfin, Realtor.com, and Zillow make money by selling their unused space like an online co-working space.

This company is building a chat-based social network for enthusiasts that aims to allow users to share their experiences and advice with each other, like Reddit or Quora. It’s a spin on the social media platform idea: instead of frequent posts from celebrities, the goal is to get your friends to post about their experiences and thoughts.

A set of cloud-based tools for optimizing websites, including a web-based editor, to help web developers find bugs.

A review platform for restaurants. Users can rate restaurants on their service, experience, and food quality.

A carpooling app for commuters looking to get to work or meet up with friends.

This is a one-stop shop for help with software installation, configuration, and troubleshooting. The company’s network of software experts can help people with “anything from the basics to the not-so-basics.”

A home security company that uses sensors to monitor the security of a home or building, paying users a fee for each intrusion detected.

A London-based startup that helps businesses optimize their operations with artificial intelligence.

A startup that helps small businesses build their own custom calendars from a free, online template

A company that tracks your phone’s location in real-time so you can get notifications if you are getting close to dangerous areas.

A home-sharing platform for students on the move. It allows students to rent out rooms in their homes for short periods.

An AI that can create infographics from text.

A business that wants to build a comprehensive toolkit to help companies source and track the intellectual property they’ve created. The goal is to give companies a way to better manage the patented content their employees create.

A tool for helping entrepreneurs find funding for their businesses, based out of the Silicon Valley area.

A tool that lets you buy “shop” at potteries and other retailers. The startup is working with individual retailers to integrate the app into their e-commerce experience.

A product that uses a smartphone’s camera to scan the world around it, providing context and data in real time.

A helpdesk platform for developers and startups that can be accessed from any web browser. Users can call, chat, and file tickets.

An online shopping marketplace that uses mobile payment technology to allow customers to buy and sell items from their smartphones.

A digital assistant for the wine industry, helping professionals like sommeliers and winemakers learn from the data they have without having to manually track it.

A social network for the self-employed, allowing freelancers to connect with each other, share tips and services, and engage on projects.

A $1 cloud-based platform for sharing your music, where friends can listen to it for free. The app is already on the Apple Store, and the company is looking to expand to Android and Windows.

A credit card that offers financial products to its users for purchases made on the card.

A way to help businesses quickly and easily create and manage a simple “digital wallet” and connect it to their e-commerce platform.

A startup that enables employees to build their own private Slack channel. It’s a Slack channel for employees to communicate internally, with features like real-time chat, file sharing, and video conferencing.

A company that says it’s helping people get paid faster by taking on the “pain points” of legacy payment methods and automating them. The startup is building a payment platform that connects to any existing bank account and can be integrated with existing systems.

A startup that provides a software platform for tracking the progress of a diverse team of contributors working on a single project

A tool to help nonprofits create their own call-to-action campaigns, by turning their event pages into a call-to-action page.

This startup has a platform that empowers people to create their own social media profiles, with a focus on privacy and security.

A hospitality company that provides standardized guest rooms in a hotel, either customized to the needs of a customer or a group of customers.

A cloud storage product that will allow mobile developers to continue building apps and distribute them for free. All of the data will be stored in the cloud and accessed via an iOS and Android app.

Two entrepreneurs are trying to build a real-time language translator, meaning they aren’t just building an AI tool.

A virtual reality performance studio. The company is building a virtual reality-based studio that provides training to help companies bring their ideas to life.

A global online marketplace for reselling used products from other people.

A project management platform for freelancers and small teams, asking people to “realize their potential”.

A chatbot that’s meant to help people with social anxiety, and help them practice conversations they want to have in real life.

A startup that wants to make sure that every part of your company is on the same page.

A platform that aims to help businesses organize the chaotic nature of the way they manage their employee data.

An email marketing service that shows customers from a company what products from that company they have already bought, and what they might like to buy next.

A new way of doing customer service that can cut costs.

A set of services for companies and individuals to “easily and securely” import their financial data from different sources, such as banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions, into a single account.

A B2B company, which is building a platform that helps small and medium sized businesses, including restaurants, hotels, and retailers like Costco, Amazon, or Walmart, manage their inventory.

This startup is working on a way to make it easier for people to run their own mobile apps, by allowing them to build them using a drag-and-drop interface.

A way to create and manage microtask-based workflows.

A startup co-founded by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, this is a social network where you can make friends with the people you meet through the app. Users pay for memberships and can then message and chat with others on the platform.

A social network for people that work in the creative industries. The startup is building a platform for people to upload, share, and showcase their work.

A publicly traded company for building and selling airline loyalty programs.

A company that’s building a global marketplace for products and services from freelancers and contractors.

The startup offers a platform for students to share data on their college essays with professors.

In September 2014, Y Combinator announced a second batch of companies it funded, including the following:

A software company that works on “automated customer service.” They’re building a platform that will allow companies to automate many of the tedious tasks of customer service.

A map that can help you meet up with friends who are stuck in traffic.

A startup that wants to help alleviate the anxiety and uncertainty of buying a car.

A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

A platform for selling products on Facebook, with revenue split between the user and the company.

A company that’s building a toolset to help companies with medical training, which could reduce the amount of time it takes to train people with medical backgrounds.

A platform for letting people work remotely from anywhere. Currently working with three companies, including one in New York City.

A startup building an AI system to track food expenses at restaurants.

For the past five years, the startup has been building a suite of services and software for companies that want to grow their data science teams.

A startup that offers a curated selection of tech-related content and builds a library of learning materials for employees. The idea is to make it easy for learning professionals to build on their skills and also help them to stay abreast of the latest developments.

A platform that helps businesses with a global reach, from small companies to multinationals, to grow their brand in a country where they have no footprint. It charges a small monthly subscription fee and allows you to add your business to a pool of companies to bid on.

A startup that allows freelance tutors to teach online, and is building a platform that will allow them to monetize their services.

A student loan application that’s easier and less expensive to use

A marketing platform that helps B2B companies get product and service marketing done seamlessly.

A startup that wants to help you manage your money by automating your investing and investing in index funds.

A startup that wants to build a real-time streaming video platform for the news industry. It wants to help news organizations deal with the trend of short attention spans and a shortened news cycle.

A company that helps companies manage their email marketing and provide a way for users to unsubscribe from marketing messages.

China’s internet giants are increasingly dominating the global digital advertising market. A recent report from Digiday says: “Chinese social media and news platforms have commanded the lion’s share of ad revenue as global digital ad spend in the country has grown at a staggering compound annual growth rate of around 40% over the last five years.” How are these companies making money They’re using the vast audience of consumers on social media for traditional advertising.

In-house consulting that helps commercial and residential properties improve their energy efficiency.

A company that helps companies connect people who want to move to a new location with people who want to live there.

A brand-new music industry startup that wants to help unpaid musicians get paid through royalties and stream their music live.

A home services marketplace that helps users coordinate with contractors and service providers to make repairs and renovations. The startup also offers a concierge service that lets users put the app on a desk, and it works with home services companies to help them grow.

A startup that aims to help people who travel by air and face long delays. It’s a platform for travelers to stay connected and informed during delays.

A startup that lets users create a “hotel”, a place where they can post items to rent and others can offer to help them out.

A computer vision startup that wants to help computer vision researchers get access to more data by making it cheaper and easier for them to process images. The startup currently has a small team of 7, but they’re looking to grow that to 15 by the end of the year.

A startup building a platform for tracking and accessing “big data” from people’s homes, including their thermostat, lighting, blinds, and more.

This startup is building a technology platform that allows customers to connect, share, and sell products from all industries, from apparel to cars to furniture.

A platform for the visually impaired. The app translates text into an audio reading of that text, with the readout played on a phone’s loudspeaker. While the smartphone app is free to download, the smartphone’s loudspeaker is not.

A company selling custom t-shirts that can be printed with QR codes that then link to other apps on select platforms.

A startup that helps the elderly stay in their homes longer by connecting them with caregivers.

Bringing good food to your kitchen and your home.

A product designed to make it easier for small businesses to buy products online. It’s currently a free product, with plans starting at $10 per month.

A grocery delivery service that integrates with grocery stores and delivers groceries to customers, who then pay them via credit card at the store.

A startup that helps companies in the financial services industry integrate data from multiple systems through one API.

A company that’s building a platform to help organizations manage, analyze, and visualize their data. It’s a competitor to other startups like Tempo and LiveRamp.

A B2B platform for women to find and book professional services for their homes.

A way to leverage AI to perform custom formulas on data sources

A startup that uses sensors and a cloud service to track car usage, and then charges people for the fuel they use.

A platform to help users organize and find their files and folders across their phones, computers and cloud platforms.

A community of people who are building and selling 3D printers.

A company that helps you convert your files from one file type to another. The startup is focused on working with large companies, with customers like T-Mobile, Telefonica, and Sony.

A platform for online shoppers to compare prices from different stores. The company’s CEO says they have a large database of IP addresses from all over the world. The startup helps people find the lowest prices on products they’re looking for.

A music streaming service that focuses on music discovery. Co-founded by former Rdio and Spotify engineers, the startup will offer a curated “radio” experience, as well as a social experience where users can follow artists and share what they’re listening to.

A startup that helps you track and manage your expenses and also offer tips for lowering them.

A web-based platform that allows users to rent out their space. It’s meant to help alleviate rental costs for tenants, and allows them to earn extra money.

A software company that works with nonprofits to help them attract more donors.

A startup that wants to create a hub for job seekers to improve their chances of landing a job, allowing companies to focus on hiring.

This startup is building a platform that connects the global real estate market. The company, which was started in 2009, wants to bring the global real estate market together and improve their efficiency.

Some people like to own a car, which is usually a pretty big financial investment. Zendrive aims to be the Uber of cars, providing a way for people to get around without having to deal with insurance or renting or buying a car.

A startup that wants to make hotels a little more like Facebook, where you can see what friends are staying at the same hotel.

A company that wants to help you grow your business by giving you the tools to make smart decisions.

A startup that helps doctors and patients find common ground, reducing the stress involved in insurance and billing questions.

A high-tech incubator that helps companies raise money and build their businesses in Silicon Valley.

A startup for users to share their photos, with the goal of creating social media content that can be a source of revenue for them.

A medical device to help with back pain

A collaboration and messaging app for the music industry. The startup has built a service where musicians can share edits and production notes with each other.

A “pre-purchase” platform that helps people make decisions on whether or not they should buy a particular item. The goal is to help people save for the future without having to waste time or money on unnecessary purchases.

A messaging platform to facilitate in-person meetings between people who never actually met before. It’s designed to streamline the matchmaking process by connecting people with similar interests, and to make it more efficient for those who like meeting in-person.

An API to help people track a shipment in real-time.

A platform for people to register for events and discover events as they are happening

An economic development tool to help cities build their own workers’ comp laws and make it easier for employers to comply.

Idea: A startup that is building an end-to-end solution for businesses making hardware to help them get funded and bring their product to market. They want to automate a lot of the backend work needed to launch hardware like creating a company and getting funding.

A startup that provides a service to help people design their home

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A startup that provides a service where they visit your house and help you plan meals that will last a week

A startup that allows you to document your personal finances, and sync it between multiple platforms.

A new breed of chauffeur services for the Over-50 set.

A way to share and store health-related data, accessible via an app, so people can both contribute and access it.

A web and mobile app that helps consumers and businesses collaborate on price and availability.

A payment processing startup for ecommerce.

A platform that helps lower the barrier for students and schools to create and share their own content.

Plant-based protein startup that uses aquaponic systems to grow its products. The startup is looking to raise $750,000 to enter into a big box store like Walmart.

A platform that allows businesses to streamline the design, procurement, and delivery of their supplies.

A startup that wants to put a common API between many banks and start to allow consumers to take debit card payments anywhere.

A startup that helps you make sense of your finances and get new clients.

A visual search engine for photos. The startup is trying to build a search engine that boils down huge amounts of data into a vector-based visualization that can be manipulated with a computer.

A financial software company that builds tools that lenders can use to manage cash flow and loan payments.

The startup touts its software as a “robust suite for manufacturing operations”. The company offers real-time risk analysis, as well as mobile apps for managing business operations.

A startup aimed at teaching people how to code, taking a different approach than the usual “watch a video, then start coding” method. The idea is to have the app do a lot of the work for you, by offering a series of “interactive exercises” to get you coding.

A way to protect your privacy by using data from social media to “unmask the real, anonymous person behind a fake account”.

A startup that builds sensor-based lights and other devices that can be controlled by a smartphone.

A way for people to pay and get paid for their freelance work.

A startup to help people who have been scammed or ripped off, such as getting an unauthorized charge on their card.

A platform that helps non-profits measure their impact and reach donors. The startup also offers a service for nonprofits of all sizes to produce impact reports, generally a 6-month to 1-year undertaking for a nonprofit.

A real estate platform that tracks home values, market activity, and more, helping owners sell their homes.

A software-as-a-service tool for automating product support in ecommerce stores.

A tool for companies to manage their business finances in one place, which is accessible from anywhere.

A startup that wants to make it easier for companies to purchase goods from China. It wants to make it easier for companies to purchase goods from China.

A startup that aims to turn any website into a social network, using a customizable experience to foster invite-only groups that can be shared with friends and family.

A podcast manager for users of the popular podcast app Overcast.

A company that wants to create a “new and improved” credit score that takes into account a person’s income and employment history.

A startup that allows users to quickly and easily create, edit and publish content, currently focused on travel.

An educational startup that wants to help people learn how to build websites. “It’s like Codecademy, but for web development”.

A digital exchange that matches buyers and sellers of digital products.

A startup for users to text in a short sentence and have it translated into a dozen languages in real time. The startup currently has 25 beta testers.

A company that provides developers with a platform to build third-party apps to interact with other apps and devices, and a platform for developers to build apps to interact with other apps and devices.

A “one-stop shop for all-in-one accounting and tax management”, with a web app and mobile app for self-employed individuals and small businesses.

A tool for managing digital assets

A “B2B marketplace for contract manufacturing” that connects manufacturing orders to suppliers.

A startup that’s built a tool for companies to learn about their customers in order to optimize their experience. It’s currently being used by a particular customer, and the company says it has data from around 50 other clients.

A SaaS product that helps hotels and other hospitality businesses create a concierge service for their customers

A startup that wants to be the company that helps companies create a single record of all of their business information, including financial documents, employee records, etc.

A startup that makes asset management software for landlords, streamlining their workflows, saving time and giving landlords more control.

A startup that wants to connect buyers with people who have what they need, from spare parts to rare books.

A graduate of Y Combinator and Google Brain, a startup spun out of Stanford’s machine learning lab that wants to make machine learning accessible to researchers by making it easy to train models without having to write code.

Paylocity is building a tool that will help companies automate payments between companies. Their tool works with multiple companies, with plans starting at $10/month.

A fintech startup that is building a platform that will let users import financial data from different platforms and create a financial dashboard that can be integrated with other platforms.

CoSchedule is an online tool for event organizers that allows for better time management for the organization. The site offers an online calendar and a social network for the organizer.

A company that connects users with restaurants and bars in their area via a single app. The startup is looking to take on Yelp’s dominance in the food and drink category.

A platform that converts digital media into physical objects, like posters or t-shirts, to increase sales.

A platform to help people discover new entertainment content in their area.

A startup that aims to help keep track of all the activity happening in a company’s Slack.

A startup that helps people with diabetes receive better quality health care by monitoring the service they receive from their doctors and hospitals

A startup that lets shoppers bid on items to help them save money, and that charges a small fee for the service. The startup is mobile-first and only takes a small cut of profits.

A way to help real estate agents get the right buyer into the right property.

A social-media platform for contractors, designed for organizations with a small project or need.

A platform for recruiting and managing sales reps in a B2B sales process.

A startup that lets you do your holiday shopping automatically.

A platform that helps users find and buy clothes that suit their style, based on data about their taste, body type, and more. The app is meant to complement existing fashion data from the likes of Google and Yummly.

A startup to help companies communicate with employees, customers, and partners.

This startup is building a collaborative platform for people to share their ideas and collaboratively create, share, and consume content.

A new kind of search engine that gets results from dozens of sources and instantly returns more relevant results to users. Its search engine can also be connected to digital assistants like Alexa or Google Home

A startup that partners with the National League of Cities to help cities use technology to manage their public safety functions.

A company that’s building an app that helps people negotiate better deals with their employers.

A company that aims to make office-sharing easier and cheaper for its users. It’s a peer-to-peer office-sharing service that allows people who share an office to save money on their utilities and rent.

A note-taking app that has a tab for the pen you’re using, making it easier to switch from pen to pen, and to save lists and sticky notes.

A DIY platform for home repairs, from painting to drywall installation to building a deck. The company wants to make it as simple as possible to have something built and out the door.

The startup, which launched in December, is building an API that allows companies to design their own “gunmetal” color palettes for their apps. The startup wants to deliver a service that allows designers to create color palettes through a set of “gunmetal” swatches.

A social network for home improvement contractors to compare and rate each other’s work.

A tool for managing a company’s fleet of self-driving cars. The startup is building a system for letting a driver take control of a car during a traffic jam, or for when a driver wants to take a longer break.

This New York City startup is building a subscription service for the restaurant industry. The founders behind the company believe that the industry is plagued by high costs and a lack of execution.

A platform for small businesses to create a custom email address for their customers. A customer can choose from a range of options, including custom logos, backgrounds, and colors.

A company that builds software for the insurance industry that allows agents to provide quotes and capture policy details.

A healthcare startup that aims to address the issue of prescription drug waste by allowing doctors to write prescriptions

Helping companies review, rank and purchase equipment such as tickets, office supplies and food. They have raised $35 million to date and have a database of 15,000 to 20,000 clients.

A tool that helps you find free Wi-Fi hotspots.

A platform with a web-based portal for doctors to access patient information, allowing them to talk to patients or patients’ families remotely through video conferencing, or call them into their office.

A food delivery startup that wants to take on Uber Eats. The company is currently only available in Seattle and has $3 million in funding.

A platform that helps users who are moving apartments share information with their friends and family, to make the process less stressful.

This startup focuses on the monetary value of freelance work.

A venture-backed SaaS company that’s trying to get retailers to accept mobile payments at a physical store.

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

A startup that “connects healthcare providers with patients with different needs,” according to the founders.

A cryptocurrency wallet with a brand-new design.

A startup that makes it easy to send money abroad to friends and family. The startup is looking to partner with banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions to help small businesses and families send money abroad.

A platform that helps small business owners book affordable group reservations, cutting their cost from 25% to 10%.

A SaaS company that helps companies with online payment solutions. The company was acquired by PayPal in 2012.

A digital health startup that provides a dashboard for users to track their daily health and fitness habits

A digital agency that helps clients optimize their customer acquisition and retention through a combination of data, analytics, and behavioral science.

A startup that aims to bring the transparency of online voting to the world of online retail, where many retailers don’t always do their best to represent their products to their customers.

A simple tool for managing your online reputation.

A startup that helps users get discounts on items by tracking the price at multiple retailers, then figuring out the best price for each item.

This healthcare startup is working on a new way for patients to store and manage their medical records, using a 3D printer.

A company that aims to be the Uber of freelance services by connecting service providers with customers.

An online platform that helps find and manage projects, services and talent for non-profits.

A startup that makes it easier for people to manage their finances, offering a suite of tools that are free for personal finance and budgeting.

This startup lets you record and share interviews with others on the go.

A mobile app that allows you to track the health of your dog with a smartphone, using information from your vet.

A program that helps veterans and others with PTSD to access their medical records without leaving the comfort of home. The startup is providing a web-based platform to access electronic health records in a manner that is secure and private.

A way to pay taxes in the Philippines. Tenpay became the first company to launch a digital tax payment system in the country.

A startup building a computer vision platform to help businesses more efficiently identify and track the performance of their products.

A platform that helps the medical community make more informed decisions through data. HealthLoop cofounders are former Apple engineers who say they’ve built a prototype.

An AI-powered chatbot that helps with financial planning. The startup wants to bring AI to the financial planning industry, which has historically been dominated by humans, who can be biased and inefficient.

A content recommendation platform that partners with influencers to help them get more followers and more engagement. They say they’re already working with a number of celebrities.

A company that helps small businesses by giving them a platform to get their products in front of large-scale advertisers.

A messaging app for farmers in India to share information and coordinate with other farmers.

A startup that’s looking to build a new type of digital currency that’s backed by an asset instead of by a bank or government.

A platform for businesses to help their employees track hours and pay for independent contractors. The startup has already been used by companies like Hewlett Packard, CVS, and DMCI.

A tool that aims to “bridge the gap between talent and technology” by connecting talent with people who can help them develop their skills.

A tool that helps businesses monitor their spending for compliance purposes.

A visual data visualization tool that makes it simple to create interactive stories and marketing campaigns.

A company that helps freelance and on-call workers find jobs. It’s currently working with 10,000 companies including Uber, GoDaddy, and Microsoft.

A company that builds tools for companies to track employee satisfaction and make changes to improve it.

A company that helps companies get insurance coverage and benefits for their freelance workers. The startup has built out a marketplace and a compliance platform.

A startup called “SendGrid for recruiters” that helps recruiters send out personalized, relevant e-mails to job seekers.

A company that helps companies map out how their products are made, helping them ensure their supply chain is as efficient as possible.

A group of friends who are building a kind of alternative to LinkedIn, with more emphasis on connections and less emphasis on the algorithm.

A real estate company that aims to use software to automate the process of buying and selling property, streamlining the process and making it accessible to the average Joe.

A platform to help employers find and hire remote workers. The startup has launched in the UK, and is looking to expand to other countries.

A company that wants to make it easier for people to access healthcare, through telemedicine.

The Delhi-based startup is building a platform that helps users book flights, hotels, and car rentals with a single app. The company claims it can slash travel costs by as much as 80 percent.

A workplace application that automatically analyzes emails to determine which emails are the most important and should be answered immediately. It’s trying to replace the traditional “email triage” process with a more targeted process that says, for instance, “take care of these 10 emails first, then this one”.

A tool for curating an email inbox, the Startup is pitching as “email 2.0”.

A startup that helps people who are traveling overseas to have a way to find safe places to sleep

A platform that allows international travelers to register, book, and pay onboard the same platform. It’s like a hybrid of Expedia and Kayak, and has been used by more than 100,000 travelers so far.

A money transfer business that works through WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. They also offer a QR scanner and a QR code generator.

Clari is hiring a "blockchain engineer" and wants to help companies build their own blockchain networks.

A tool that helps identify the people that need to be at a meeting, and the people who are already there.

A startup for home services, featuring local contractors and service providers.

A new way to get ahold of a new hire. The company offers a service to get your new hires onboarded and trained, and was founded in August

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

A digital product management platform that helps enterprise software vendors manage the development of their products. Its pitch is that it’s more cost effective for customers to make changes on the fly, rather than make and test changes to an entire CRM system.

A startup that wants to build a platform that lets people buy and sell debt on the blockchain.

Idea: Fixing the security holes in the smart home

A platform that allows users to create personal profiles for their connections on LinkedIn, then use that information to suggest connections who may be a good fit for them.

“Surveillance” is a startup that wants to use data to help law enforcement fight crime. The startup has already secured $1.5M in funding.

A startup that makes it easier for people to manage their finances, offering a suite of tools that are free for personal finance and budgeting.

A new startup that aims to bring the popular online chats of Twitch, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter together into a single video-based chat platform. They’ve built a Chrome extension that lets you embed Twitch, Reddit, or Twitter into a video chat.

A new way to book a car, with a carpool mode that will help find rides for people who live far from where they want to go.

This startup is building a mobile payment solution in India that’s optimized for lower-income users. It provides a way for merchants to accept the main payment methods in the country.

A new way to manage and share information on software development. Envato is building a common development platform that allows teams to share and collaborate with ease.

A social media marketing tool that lets you create posts, and then suggests the best time to post them.

This startup is building an AI-powered customer service chatbot that can help companies do customer service work without a human. Right now it works for customer support, but the company is planning to expand into other areas.

A millennial-focused startup that wants to create a locally-sourced and craft beer-friendly alternative to “traditional” craft beers. LocalBev will work directly with a brewer to create a unique beer style, with each batch brewed on an on-site system.

A business that wants to connect with the 1.2 billion people without bank accounts and offer them the ability to get an account and receive loans.

A startup where people can find jobs.

A software-as-a-service startup that works with retailers to take physical inventory and give it a digital facelift, allowing the retailer to track inventory and perform analytics on its data.

A company that helps recruiters find candidates by tracking their activity on platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook.

A platform that helps people connect with people who can help them with their career

A business that combines health and financial wellness, with plans to launch in the US in the fall of 2016.

A startup that creates tools for fans to track their favorite teams, including live streaming to Facebook.

The startup is building a marketplace for social and environmental benefits that companies can offer to their customers. The idea is that companies can leverage these “social benefits” to boost the loyalty of customers who want to do the right thing.

A digital marketplace for anyone to buy and sell stuff. The platform connects sellers with buyers and owners with renters, providing on-demand services. The startup is looking to grow into a software as a service offering.

This one is a bit of a stretch to be sure, but the idea is that when you need a car for a day or a week, you can borrow one from a company in your area. The company then acts as a rental broker and rents the car to you at a set rate.

A startup that creates webinars for startups that help them “scale” faster.

A secure, easy to use cryptocurrency wallet

A software startup that aims to make it easier for "anyone from a small business to a large enterprise" to create and manage training programs. "We've had some success so far with the enterprise space, but we're mostly focused on education at the moment," the team writes.

A company that helps big companies and brands create branded content for their YouTube videos, using a system of “buzzwords” and keywords to make sure the content is relevant and engaging.

The online platform makes it easy for people to make and share their own videos and photos. The startup is building a system that lets users access the platform from different devices and create content quickly and easily.

A mobile therapy app for anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.

A startup that wants to build an app that helps you save money on your insurance and financing. Customers would be able to compare cars, get quotes and pay for car insurance all in one platform.

A startup that’s working to bring mobile-first design to the web. The company’s founder says that on desktop, responsive websites are too complex and hard to work with. On mobile, the opposite is true: sites are too simple and often hard to use. Sway is working to change that with a product that uses all the same features on mobile as it does on desktop.

An auto-replacement tool for software developers.

This startup is building a service for individuals to control the music they listen to and set their own personalized playlists.

A portfolio of services that helps people get the best possible price for their home. The startup brings together agents and home inspectors to help you get the best price for your home.

A startup for buying and selling tickets to events. The startup is focused on events in the UK and Europe. They were formerly known as Ticket Vending.

This company wants to build an app that can help consumers find childcare that’s appropriate for their needs.

A company that helps determine if a loan is worth making. Fundera’s technology is based on smart contacts, which match up borrowers and lenders and run predictive analytics to determine if a loan is worth making.

A startup that’s building a video chat app for people on the go. The startup is building a chat app that works on both Android and iOS.

A platform that lets you save photos and videos, both online and on your phone, in a single place. The startup is currently working with other startups to build out a similar, but more robust, app.

Feed the Pig is a vending machine that serves only one dish

A way to allow people to make money off their old clothes or other items they no longer use. They take these items to local companies that refurbish them.

A customer service employee, or “helper,” who’s also a part of the support team. The startup uses video chat to bring the experienced help desk agent to the customer’s side.

A platform to help consumers get the best return on their money in their financial accounts. The startup wants to take on a large part of the financial industry and make it more transparent to consumers.

A tool for sending payments from a person’s bank account to a merchant’s bank account instantly.

A startup for freelance designers that takes sticker prices and eliminates the middleman.

A personal finance tool for students, which helps them manage their loans and expenses.

A startup that helps freelancers manage expenses and work their clients into one centralized place.

A tool for sharing stories of strength and courage, in the form of an app. All the stories are crowdsourced, but the company says they have a team of over 100 reporters and editors who ensure the stories are in good taste.

A startup that aims to give businesses a tool that allows them to turn their smartphones into an in-store point of sale

Spectra is a startup that provides a platform for building better experiences for “heads-up displays” which are basically the tiny screens that are mounted on modern vehicles to display speed, navigation, and other information. It’s available on Android and iOS.

A startup that wants to help you be the best you possible, by providing the tools you need to lose weight and exercise for optimal health, with the app linking to your doctor and other providers, to make sure you’re in the best health possible.

A tool for large companies who want to take a more strategic approach to their marketing spend.

A startup that’s developing a computer vision API that helps businesses analyze and refine their photos.

This is a company that is teaming up with a local restaurant to help you order food from a menu directly online. The idea is that you can then order a meal to be ready in the same spot that you want to pick it up from.

The startup is a social platform for people to share and watch videos about the uses of things like vacuum cleaners, scissors, and extension cords.

A web-based dashboard for financial advisors to access real-time data and get instant notifications when something is wrong.

This app is built to make it easy for business leaders to stay in touch with the people who make their businesses work, allowing executives to communicate with their teams via text.

A tool that helps businesses monitor their spending for compliance purposes.

A tool for developers to build, manage, and distribute digital applications. The company also offers a developer platform that lets users build, test, and deploy digital applications.

A piece of software that helps employers in the US and abroad hire and manage their teams in an efficient and cost-effective way.

A digital banking startup for the developing world.

A loyalty program platform for loyalty programs.

A self-driving electric bike that can be rented by the hour that launches in Q4 2019.

A startup working to make it possible for everyone to consume a beef jerky product from the comfort of their own home.

In-home health care is a $100 billion industry in the US and $5 trillion worldwide. Startups like Health2Go and TeleCare are trying to make it easier for health care workers to provide medical services at home.

A company that helps people manage their health and wellness through a digital platform

A platform that lets you buy and sell luxury real estate, with inventory sourced from Realtor.com

A platform for rehabbing houses, allowing customers to access a network of experienced contractors, and easily book them.

A data platform for the music industry. The company, which was founded in 2014, is building out a platform that connects artists and labels with data about their fans and allows them to create customized playlists, from which they can then sell song downloads.

The startup is building a platform for event organizers to build their own branded events. It’s aiming to help organizers build a “social network of events” that start conversations.

A platform for managing and tracking employee benefits. The startup offers a suite of employee benefits management tools that help people manage their benefits and comply with regulations.

SaaS business that helps people create websites and handle their content, which they say is “not enough”.

An enterprise social network and HR software company in the Philippines. The startup hopes to help small and medium businesses get access to the kind of services large corporations have.

A personal assistant that helps people figure out which of their friends is most likely to be on Twitter and Instagram.

The startup is building an app for employers to create a job and track its progress. The startup charges employers to host the app, and uses it to help employers track the progress of their job postings and manage employee communication.

A GPS-based ride-sharing app that allows users to call a car directly from their phone.

A tool for managing the costs of projects, like equipment and travel. The company is building a global network of people who will manage a project for you

A cloud platform for companies handling high-volume data including financial services, utilities, manufacturing and media.

A social network that pays people to share their lives with others.

A workplace chatbot that helps employees collaborate, stay motivated, and handle workplace crises. It’s currently working with 1,500 companies.

A software company that helps companies with their landing page optimization, helping them do things like better target their ads to different customer segments and track their content performance.

Motion-tracking device that can be used with any smartphone.

A startup called Finser is building a type of bank account that lets you make payments between accounts of different banks.

A decentralized supply chain platform that helps suppliers and manufacturers create a better supply chain and to get paid faster.

A cloud-based compliance platform for law firms and other legal entities.

A company that maps the world’s urban areas using satellite imagery. It’s currently working with six cities: London, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong.

A tiny computer that can be implanted into the brain, offering a way to treat chronic pain, mental illness, and even Alzheimer’s.

A maker of subscription boxes to help customers discover, purchase, and ship products from retailers across the country. Each month, the service helps subscribers pick each month’s “box” based on their interests, which is hand-curated by the company’s team.

After 10 years at Microsoft, where she was on the engineering side of the company's Azure cloud computing platform, and launching and running teams, Nadella helped build up the company's IoT and AI platforms, and then transitioned to the CEO role.

A tool to help build and publish documentation and documentation in a web-based application.

A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is building an AI that can accurately diagnose diseases and make predictions based on a reference set of data. It's the MIT team's latest bid to bring the power of AI to the masses.

Apple’s iOS operating system lacks a centralized directory to find and open files. Filefactory has built a solution that will let you “find files and get notifications for files that are important to you—in any app”.

A tool that makes it easy to make videos with simple software. The startup is built on the Huddle video hosting platform.

A digital tool that helps users visualize their finances in terms of debt, retirement, and savings.

A social network for people in the legal industry that lets them discover and connect with each other, build profiles, and share information. The startup’s founders say it’s the “LinkedIn for the legal industry”.

Two entrepreneurs are trying to build a real-time language translator, meaning they aren’t just building an AI tool.

A startup in the process of launching a $1 billion new venture fund called the FinTech Fund that will invest in the future of money, especially in the FinTech sector. They’re looking for “unicorns” (startups valued at over $1 billion) in the financial technology sector.

A startup that provides merchants with tools to manage their cash flow, including an online platform to make payments. It has over $100 million in transactions, and processes about a million dollars in payments per month.

A mobile app for mobile marketers and companies to easily manage their ad campaigns.

A mobile app that helps you build up your savings to reach a goal, like a new car or a down payment on a house. It’s currently UK-based, with expansion to the US planned for 2020.

This is an app that allows users to create and deploy content without the need for coding. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to create a website and get it live quickly.

A SaaS sales app that helps salespeople and managers track sales pipeline, resources and pipeline capacity.

A startup that wants to build a platform that lets people buy and sell debt on the blockchain.

A startup with a patent-pending invention that allows you to change the color of your eyes.

A system for companies to track and manage their repair/replace parts inventory

A software platform that helps people shop for second-hand furniture and home decor

This company is building an HR solution for remote companies, allowing them to track employee movements and see how their work is being performed.

A startup that helps find and book essential medical appointments anywhere.

A fintech platform, helping companies with their transactions.

A company that tracks fashion trends and provides a service to help consumers know which styles will be popular in a given season.

A platform that specializes in “insurance for the uninsurable”, or people who aren’t in major risk pools but can still get coverage.

A SaaS-based platform aimed at simplifying the process for creating and managing an automated recurring revenue (ARC) program.

This startup is building a free, secure, and encrypted messaging platform with end-to-end encryption.

A way to streamline the process of getting a loan for a startup (or other company in need of financing). The company provides a marketplace for financing and a loan application, with providers ranging from big banks to crowdlending sites. They’re currently in the process of raising Series A funding.

The company aims to become the “Amazon of corporate travel”. They currently have 2,000 users.

A startup that is building a website that allows users to look at the world like an architect.

Cybersecurity startup. A hacker could turn off the security controls on a machine, causing it to create a backdoor for someone else to use.

A startup to help people sell their used clothing and get a fair price. The company has a partnership with a charity that helps needy people in India.

A way for the user to design and customize his or her own Lego creation.

A place for all the comedians and comedy fans to come together and talk about comedy.

A company that helps companies process credit card transactions using an API. It uses a machine learning technology called Credly to integrate the data into their system.

A startup designed for salespeople to sync sales calls with their sales history, history of sales calls with their customer, and push out daily reports.

Building a tool that helps employees manage their work and personal time. It’s free to join and free to use.

The digital version of a pest control service. The startup’s team is small but they’re growing fast. They’ve raised $1.2 million and are looking to expand into the Northeast and Midwest.

Delivering a “rewards-coupon” platform for online retailers.

A company that lets consumers sell pre-owned goods. The company is currently in an early stage of fundraising.

The startup is launching an app to allow people to build their own personal websites, with various themes and templates.

This startup wants to help educators and parents quickly communicate what's going on with their kids, making it safer for them to do things like go to school or play in the park.

A B2B startup that wants to make a “common operating system” for workflows. It wants to make tasks like HR administration and invoicing simple and easy.

The company helps athletes and teams figure out what to do next after winning a major sporting event.

A digital library for insurance claims denials that allows users to search by claims date, policy number, and treatment. The app also provides a log of all denials by date and saves a copy of the denial letter for each policy.

iau is building a tool to make it easier for marketers to track their digital campaigns, helping them get more data on their marketing efforts. The startup says it’s already working with over 50 marketing agencies.

A startup that helps local businesses communicate with their customers by providing a shared inbox and contact list. A startup for small businesses that wants to bring in new customers.

A startup for visually tracking cooking, with a chat tool for a community of food lovers. The app aims to help users cook more efficiently, with features like measuring and recipe creation.

This startup wants to create a real-time marketplace for the Indian farmer market. It will use a mobile app to help farmers connect with buyers on their mobile phones. The company wants to help farmers sell their products faster and easier.

A startup to help users find the best docs, products, and services to meet their needs. It’s a tool for sales and marketing teams to help them make the most of their marketing dollars.

A company that helps you find a new or used car based on your driving history or preferred car type.

A startup that uses AI and machine learning to help companies predict their customers’ behavior, and to craft customer experiences better suited to those behaviors.

An employee scheduling tool that lets companies see all their employees at once with their schedule, location, availability and more.

This is a company that makes a “dance-forward” bra for women who move.

A tool that helps students get internships, and provide a way for companies to find employees.

A web-based P2P lending platform that uses the blockchain to ensure the cashflow of the loan, using AI to predict default rates.

A way for restaurants to track how much customers spend on food, and how satisfied they are with the experience.

A startup that acts as a digital wallet for frequent flyers.

Meet-up-based social networks for people interested in a topic.

A company that links employers with unemployed workers, helping the unemployed find jobs and employers get a reliable pool of workers.

A tool for restaurant managers to book their staff, and track their performance.

An economic, privacy-centric decentralized messaging platform that uses a “protocol layer,” or messaging layer, based on IPFS. A messaging protocol could be used in a variety of ways, but the company’s focus is to create a decentralized, secure messaging protocol that can be used by internet users.

Voice-activated home and car security devices that run in the background and alert you if there is an issue.

A startup that sends flowers to a person's phone. The startup, which launched in May, has partnered with over 50 retailers and plans to expand into more.

A system to help people get their driver’s license in 15 minutes

A company that aims to make it easy for you to create your own version of Dropbox or Google Drive.

A startup that’s meant to help people with ADHD focus better on tasks and avoid distractions.

A tool for creating ads for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It allows you to create an ad from scratch and customize it.

Kamal is building a chat-based service where people can trade in-game items for cash (or other in-game items) and sell them in a marketplace. The company already has $1 million in funding from Y Combinator’s Paul Buchheit, 500 Startups and Play Ventures, and is looking for $3 million to $5 million in Series A funding.

A health data startup that aims to make it easier for patients to research and manage their own health. The company’s built a mobile app to help with things like managing symptoms, tracking health conditions, and diagnosing illnesses.

A platform that helps individuals and companies to buy, sell and transfer digital assets using the blockchain. It’s a bit like OpenBazaar, but for the cryptocurrency market.

A seed-stage seed fund that invests in startups in Latin America. The fund is building a $300 million fund with the goal of underwriting $100 million in deals over the next three years.

A platform for employers to manage benefits and payroll. The company has $13.6 million in funding and 1,000 employers on board.

A digital agency for large brands that wants to help them become more agile.

Idea: The first hardware investment platform that allows investors and inventors to reach each other

A startup that offers video conferencing for people who don’t have a lot of time to meet face-to-face.

A startup that helps veterans with mental health issues and PTSD.

An artificial intelligence startup that wants to tackle the problem of inefficiency on the supply chain, using AI to identify problems and then using those insights to improve efficiency.

A software company that allows people to find the best healthcare provider to treat a specific condition.

An all-in-one option for health insurance for small businesses.

A non-profit that’s using a platform for urban farmers to sell their produce to nearby restaurants, making the product accessible to low income communities in cities like Philadelphia.

In 2018, the United States has the largest number of startup founders in the world, and has been for the past few years.

A tool aimed at helping restaurant owners and managers perform their jobs more effectively.

A payment service for freelance work that will make it a lot easier for people to pay their taxes.

A platform for student loans, with no upfront fees. They’re currently in talks with over 100 banks to make it available to their customers.

A software that uses a data-driven approach to help identify potential drivers of consumer sentiment.

A startup that provides employees of car dealerships with software to make their job easier

Portable Wi-Fi that can be used to power routers for internet.

A Facebook-like app that lets anyone build and sell a mobile website. It’s a way for people who don’t build websites to earn money rather than create their own, and has a profitable model.

A tool that helps contractors get paid on time, as well as allows its users to get paid faster. The startup helps contractors get paid on time, as well as allows its users to get paid faster.

It’s a subscription based service that sends users a new piece of content every week.

A virtual assistant that works with your phone’s GPS and data to help you find and reserve a place to stay while in a new city.

A security startup with a free app that lets users report any mobile phone that isn’t secure.

AI-based automated email marketing that helps people manage their email marketing.

A way to track the progress of project management and billing from the end user, helping them work out exactly how much time is being spent on their projects. It’s free for everyone to use.

A money management app for the underbanked that allows them to perform all their regular banking tasks in one app.

Helping companies find and hire female engineers with a tool that uses data and algorithms to assess a candidate’s potential. The idea is that the startup can predict how women will respond to certain interview questions, and the more data it can crunch, the better.

A social platform that helps people connect to each other based on their shared interest in science, space, and technology. Curricula, which was founded in October, is an educational platform that lets people who share the same interests build a community and “seek, share and teach knowledge” in their area.

A tool for travel that uses machine learning to find cheap flights and hotels and book them on your behalf.

A solution for the $4 trillion global oil market where producers don’t have reliable inventories and retailers don’t have a clear picture of demand or low prices. Oil can be stored in underground tanks and is more valuable if it’s in the right place. Oil Tracker aims to connect all the different stakeholders in the oil market.

This startup is building an app that allows people to find people to meet up with in real life, like at a coffee shop or party.

Woven is a marketplace for people who want to hire local contractors, but don’t know how to find them.

A software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform which allows banks and securities exchanges to use machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation to make their markets more efficient.

A crypto exchange that’s meant to serve people in the developing world. The startup’s founders say they only charge a small fee of 0.6% per transaction, compared to their competitors that charge 10% or more.

A company called SmartPay that claims to be building a service that allows merchants to accept digital currency payments without having to install a terminal.

A real estate startup that provides software to help agents and landlords manage the processes of the mortgage and real estate industries.

This startup is building artificial intelligence for organizing and maintaining personal information in the cloud.

A startup that makes it easier to manage social media accounts, and also gives users the ability to create their own custom hashtags.

A startup that helps customers book appointments with physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

This is a service that helps you train one of your employees, so they can learn on their own and become a valuable asset to your business.

A broker for commercial real estate deals.

A marketing software service for small and medium-sized companies. The company’s founders say they’re seeing a huge demand for the service from companies after a number of competitors have fallen by the wayside.

A startup that sells an airlock to keep pets from getting into the garbage compactor.

A startup that lets people create a website from a photo of their business card, which they can then share on social networks.

A startup that helps people build virtual reality experiences and help create immersive experiences for brands. Notable for its location-based VR hardware for gaming and entertainment, the company is building a virtual reality platform for malls and shopping centers.

A startup that claims to offer a more affordable version of some of the DNA sequencing services that are available in the US.

Startups that made the list last year but haven't expanded to the US yet

A decentralized social network for food lovers and entrepreneurs, which lets restaurants and culinary businesses “employ” community members to help out at each location. Customers can also share their favorite dishes, and restaurants can advertise their products to people who like the same cuisine.

“A safe investment wrapper for cryptocurrency savings accounts”. The company is building an account that lets people invest cryptocurrency, while also automatically tracking the value of the investment and sending out monthly statements.

A startup making it easier to build a visitor management system for work-from-home companies.

A startup that uses a “digital designer” to help small businesses build websites. The startup’s model is to wake up early in the morning and design a website for a small business owner and have it ready to go by that evening.

A startup that helps mobile users find the best place to eat around them, with recommendations from other users and from the restaurants themselves.

A digital platform that helps small businesses create anonymous, low-cost loans to customers in developing countries.

A startup that helps small businesses manage their inventory and sales, and the sales and inventory of the stores they sell to. The business has $2.2M in funding.

A video platform that helps small businesses create slick video content without hiring a video specialist.

A web-based platform for teachers to create interactive learning materials by providing lesson plans and feedback to students.

A startup that allows people to track their friends’ social lives and determine if they’re getting enough sleep.

A startup that provides a service where people can have a “taste” of a product before they buy it

A tool for independent artists to scale their business, connecting them directly with consumers.

This startup makes a machine that allows users to draw on the screen using air pressure.

The startup is looking to help small businesses in India follow up with customers who have requested a price quote. They want to offer a program that lets companies send out quotes, track responses, and follow up with customers on their own.

A tool to help people get around parking on campus, and to help them find parking as easily as they can book a hotel room.

A way to build video games with a minimalist interface, aiming to give designers and programmers a more productive way to develop games.

A startup that lets people order and pay for rides by scanning a QR code, with a $2 million seed round.

A seed-stage seed fund that invests in startups in Latin America. The fund is building a $300 million fund with the goal of underwriting $100 million in deals over the next three years.

This startup is developing an online platform for community members to receive and manage community and event information.

This startup is building an app that helps people learn languages by playing games and quizzes. Think of it as a mix between Duolingo and Candy Crush.

A company that lets workers manage their expenses and save for retirement.

A startup for a variety of creative professionals, including photographers, graphic designers, videographers, animators, and other creative types.

A startup that wants to make live video marketing as simple as possible for brands. The company’s founders say they’ve already helped over 1,000 brands, and are having success with brands like Best Buy.

A more affordable alternative to the Fitbit fitness tracker.

A SaaS platform that allows users to create videos for their businesses. The platform makes it easy for businesses to design, edit, and publish their videos.

According to a report by TechCrunch, the San Francisco based coworking space, WeWork, is looking to raise another round of investments at a valuation of $8 billion. WeWork has been growing rapidly, and has been a major success in the US. However, the multi-billion-dollar valuation has not been met by the pace of growth, and many question how sustainable it will be.

A piece of software that turns any iOS or Android device into a mobile 3D scanner.

Unisex clothing brand that envisions a future in which energy consumption is decentralized, and you can just charge up your clothes.

Social networking for farmers. Farmline’s pitch is that as farmers grow and share more info about their crops, they’ll be able to reap more benefits from the same share.

A digital health startup that is building a system to help people monitor their health and wellness from the comfort of their sofa.

This startup is building a new way to work that allows you to quickly create a virtual meeting room for your team (with audio, video, and other features) and then broadcast it to whoever is interested.

A startup looking to create an AI that helps companies manage their social media accounts.

Best of both worlds, an online marketplace for teachers and a separate classroom management platform. The startup wants to help schools streamline their administrative tasks, ending the need for multiple platforms.

A platform that allows merchants and brands to focus on their core products and services over general marketing efforts. The startup’s co-founder is the co-founder of the company that created Yo, the first social network for mobile devices.

A startup and subscription service that brings the best deals on flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to any phone.

A system for managing voter registration and voter engagement for political campaigns.

A platform that enables users to buy and sell tickets for events. The startup wants to make it easy to sell tickets for acts like musicians, DJs, comedians, etc.

A tool for online videos that allows users to embed their videos on their websites and share them with friends.

A company that wants to move the world away from screen-based learning to more hands-on learning. Whether it be through a LEGO kit or the latest augmented reality app, they’re making the physical world easier to understand.

A “mobile app development team”

This startup wants to help companies manage a growing number of integrations. It’s an API marketplace that allows companies to connect to other apps without building their own.

A company building a browser extension that adds web-based editing to Microsoft Word, enabling users to do everything from adding images to creating tables and charts.

A platform for employees to organize themselves. It’s designed to be a personal space for workers, like Yammer. It’s free for teams of up to 10 employees, and starts at $10 per month per user.

A startup that wants to help patients monitor the side effects and success of their drugs.

A SaaS platform for restaurants that helps restaurant teams manage their ordering, delivery, and payroll operations. The startup was recently acquired by Groupon.

A startup that provides personalized content to people on their mobile devices, including software and device updates.

This company wants to help retail and e-commerce businesses in China with logistics and shipping.

This is a software company that helps companies send payments in the form of cryptocurrency.

A platform that makes it easy for people to find new jobs and internships, connecting employers and job seekers through the use of social networks.

A platform that allows users to control lights, music and other home entertainment systems via their smartphones and computers.

This startup is building a more accessible interface for data scientists to get more out of the data they have.

A product that teaches people how to pair wine with food and make cocktails.

A startup that lets employers access their employees’ social media profiles to see what they’re doing at work.

Startup building software for farmers to help them understand weather patterns and predict crop yields. It also plans to create a bank for farmers, and expand into a larger platform for farmers to exchange information.

A health insurance company for under-insured individuals. The startup is building an income-based health insurance plan to cover people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty line.

A B2B startup that connects businesses who want to sell their existing products online with businesses that are looking to buy products.

A streaming music service for LGBTQ listeners that aims to provide a safe space to listen to music without being judged.

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A way to get on-demand services from your friends, like a concierge service that can help you with things like laundry or groceries.

A video-editing app that’s built to work with iPads and Macs

A startup that helps employees take a break from work and get paid.

An AI-powered marketing tool for content publishers. The startup says it helps publishers manage their social media marketing efforts and track marketing ROI.

This is an alternative to the standard subscription model for software. Instead of buying software and only using it, it allows companies to buy access to the software for a set number of uses over a year, and then the software is deactivated once the period is up.

A startup that wants to help companies hire data scientists and focus on building out their AI teams.

A startup-based system to create, share, and discover content, letting people license their creations for commercial use. Based on the use of the open-source Creative Commons licenses.

A startup that helps software companies manage their security by providing a mobile application that allows people to connect to their accounts, sending them alerts when they log on from other places in the world, or when their account is accessed from a location that they didn’t specify. The company is currently working with 4 enterprise customers.

A startup that helps people explore the world to learn new things

An automated system for testing web application performance.

A cloud-hosted chat platform with built-in support for text, voice and video, and an API to build custom integrations.

A quick and easy way to build live video apps

A platform for creating and distributing podcasts. The company is currently in private beta, and has already sold $2 million worth of ad-free podcasts, which are spread across categories like health, finance, travel, and parenting.

A social network designed to help people make friends with those from different cultures, which works as a matchmaking service for travelers.

A web-based platform for executing and checking off tasks from a single dashboard, built for project managers.

A startup that aims to help companies manage the risks involved with hiring an EU migrant.

A startup that combines the power of a CRM and a service-level management tool to help companies manage their IT infrastructure.

A startup that lets people easily find nearby parking garages.

A startup that is working to build a feedback loop between brands, consumers, and studios. The startup is looking to create a new kind of “collective” that works to pull in creators, viewers, and brands while also establishing a new model for how creators are paid.

A startup that wants to create an online store that uses artificial intelligence to automatically find and purchase items that match a customer’s taste and preferences.

Fostr is a marketplace where people sell their unused clothes. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding and says they’ve sold over 30,000 items in the last two years.

A fitness tracking and coaching app and website

An investment platform for retail investors.

This company is building a platform for hospitals to upload their electronic records to a cloud, creating a virtual medical record for all doctors and patients to use.

A startup that makes a “smart ring” that will read your body’s temperature and send it to your phone.

A platform that allows businesses to identify and hire the best talent for any job they’re hiring for.

A startup that provides a service that helps people with brain injuries and other cognitive conditions take care of themselves and feel better

A startup that provides a digital assistant to help with the everyday tasks on your to-do list. It helps you organize your schedule, pay bills, plan your meals, and even get personalized recommendations for restaurants.

A platform that will let you export your LinkedIn contacts to Slack.

A startup that connects people who are looking to hire a nanny to people looking for work as a nanny

Has launched in the past year in the US, in areas in which cannabis has been legalized in the past year in states like Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, and California. The company’s founders say they can apply their technology to any state/state-regulated cannabis industry, and are already in business in the US.

A web-based sales person tracking system that helps employees get paid. The company is building features to make it easier to manage employees, who can share tasks and get rewards.

A digital security management platform that helps companies reduce the risk of a cyberattack.

A startup that helps people get a better price on furniture, car rentals, and other purchases.

A startup that is building a platform for chatbots that lets people build chatbots using any programming language

A startup that helps companies manage their inventory across multiple warehouses and retail locations The company says they have $82,000 in monthly recurring revenue with 60% gross margins

The Parisian startup is building a digital version of a tour guide. The app will help people feel more connected to a place and know more about it than they currently do. The company has already raised €4.1 million and is currently on track to close a €5 million round.

The Yield Lab is a business accelerator focused on agriculture and food. The startup provides capital, office space, and mentorship to help early stage companies launch and grow.

This startup wants to use machine learning to identify the different uses of a product and then provide recommendations based on that data. For example, a smartphone app may recommend different camera apps to users based on their photos.

A startup helping real estate agents sell homes by providing a marketplace for their clients to find a buyer.

A wearable that helps you find the best places to park during a trip to the grocery store.

A financial services firm that helps companies get the most out of their employees.

A platform to help artists and artisans sell their goods directly to customers, via a website that helps them manage inventory and track sales.

A SaaS-based service for retailers that helps them manage their shipping.

A tool for competing in the stock market, helping people build portfolios without the stress of managing it all themselves.

A platform to help users organize and find their files and folders across their phones, computers and cloud platforms.

The startup is building a platform for developers to create tools that help identify and prevent fraud for both consumers and businesses.

"Tiny Bot" is a service that allows chatbots on any messaging service to speak to one another, with the goal of allowing businesses to create global chatbots. The company says it can scale up to chat with 1 billion users.

The startup’s first product is a subscription service that sends out a box of books each month to clients. It’s meant to be a “Netflix for books”

A startup that takes on the work of the human team, like digital marketing, and hires a bot to do it for them.

A startup that helps grow Instagram influencers by giving them access to a community of other social media influencers and brands.

A team management app for the engineering and design teams at a SaaS company.

An AI platform for investing in stocks and managing portfolios with a focus on behavioral finance. The platform is built around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI-powered algorithms, and it’s focused on finding out how people really invest.

A company that claims to offer on-demand, personalized health coaching.

A chatbot that helps people learn how to kickstart conversations and build rapport quickly. The startup is working on a demo with YC.

A contact management app for people who want intuitive, easy-to-use tools to manage and keep track of contacts.

This company is building a platform that aims to help small companies communicate and collaborate with each other via a virtual conference room.

The company’s site claims that it is “one of the world’s largest network of independent, self-employed freelance professionals”, and that they’ve built a platform to “connect professionals to customers via a global marketplace”.

A company that wants to help schools with the upkeep of their buildings, by using an army of drones to clean up after them.

A product that helps customers compare different financial products to understand which is best for them.

A startup for local service providers to offer their services to customers in online or offline formats through a combination of chat and text messaging

A company that provides a way for small businesses to get loans, at lower interest rates and with some value-added perks. The company has $1 million in funding.

A hotel app that allows travelers to reserve and book rooms in advance to save money on hotels.

A startup that sends personalized emails to people based on their data, and the content of those emails is based on what the person is interested in.

A startup that provides remote workers with the tools to efficiently monitor, report, and communicate their team’s progress, with the goal of giving managers the ability to manage teams, with less need for face time. The company has raised $1.2 million in funding, and has customers in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

A startup that helps users get discounts on items by tracking the price at multiple retailers, then figuring out the best price for each item.

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A tool for small businesses to manage and track their inventory and orders.

A group messaging app that uses artificial intelligence to make group calls more efficient, offering suggestions on topics to discuss. It’s currently available in beta.

A startup that builds an e-commerce platform for the cannabis industry. The team has been operating in the Asian market for the past three years.

A startup that asks the question “What does it feel like to be a doctor”. It turns physicians into training robots that can read vitals, progress through patient history, and do the doctor interface.

This is a startup that’s giving companies a way to manage their own data centers and improve the security and reliability of their IT networks by managing their power and cooling infrastructure. The company charges $1 per user per month for the service.

A tool for hiring professional photographers and videographers.

A digital assistant for doctors, who can pull information in from their computer and phone and give their patients a real-time response.

A startup that allows consumers to merchandise their own photos and videos to sell on social media.

A startup that helps people check their credit score, see how it has changed, and find out new credit options.

A platform that helps people manage their food and nutrition habits. The startup has a product that supports diabetes and weight loss.

Clink is a marketplace app designed to help people find a ride from destination to destination in a more efficient, inexpensive manner.

A tool to help people manage their healthcare data. It integrates with EMRs, EHRs, and other medical records to allow patients to access their data in a single place.

A startup that wants to build AI-powered chatbots that can automatically generate chat transcripts, allowing companies to save time and money by using automated chat systems.

A startup for buying and selling used cars, part of a larger company that also offers car-sharing services. Their customers can use the company’s vehicle for their work, then turn it back in when they’re done.

Making it easier for big companies to manage their supply chains by making all of their suppliers’ data, payment systems, and invoicing work together.

A company that organizes and supports marketplaces for medical devices and other medical supplies.

A startup that’s building hardware that enables and tracks connected objects to collect statistics automatically. The company wants to make the world more “smart”.

The startup wants to be the first to bring a product to market that helps prevent boil water advisories by automatically alerting people about problems in their water supply.

A startup that helps users track their fitness goals, connecting with others and offering feedback.

A startup that wants to build software that helps companies manage their customer service. It offers software that helps companies run automated phone trees and provide a customer service helpline.

The startup is looking to help independent restaurants compete with the larger chains. It’s currently in closed beta and is looking for a round of funding.

This is a startup that wants to help journalists get more out of their data, so they can produce better results and get a more accurate picture of what their audience wants to read.

A live chat audio software for call centers.

A social network for the connected car. It aims to make car ownership more accessible by providing access to smartphone-based services that include vehicle diagnostics, maintenance, and selling services.

A startup that makes it easy for people to turn their phone screens into videos for Instagram Stories and Twitter videos.

A CRM for HR that’s focused on millennials and uses gamification to keep them engaged.

A chat service where merchants and buyers can connect to find each other, with a chatbot serving as the go-between

A company that builds a virtual assistant for call center agents, to help them deal with the high volume of calls they deal with.

This company is building a platform that helps people manage and grow their wealth for retirement. It’s a robo-advisor that works with both individual investors and large investment funds.

A solution for managing hotel bookings in China.

A tool to help people get their doctor to prescribe cheaper medications by checking Medicare cost data and comparing it to what a doctor’s office would charge for that medication.

A startup that helps small businesses market to homebuyers. Their product is a “premier content marketing platform” that utilizes detailed data about a dozen variables, including income, credit score, and the type of property they’re looking for.

A model that takes care of a company’s employees and their families as they wait for serious medical treatment

A startup that helps you manage the logistics of your home-owning life. For instance, it helps you plan for holiday guests, help with shopping lists, discover new places to eat, and more.

A tool for the hospitality industry to manage attendee profiles. One of the founders previously worked at Airbnb.

A startup that aims to be a kind of Airbnb for salespeople, connecting salespeople to sales leads and helping them find new clients.

A startup that’s meant to help people with ADHD focus better on tasks and avoid distractions.

A startup that lets you instantly rent an apartment with a few taps.

A startup that aims to create a “digital wallet for the home”, allowing you to pay for products and services using apps on your phone.

A startup that wants to “revolutionize” the way healthcare is paid for. It’s another startup that’s just about to launch, with a few clients including Harvard, Yale, and Tulane.

This startup is building a way to keep track of all the stuff you need to sell online, then selling it. The company says it has over 10,000 users.

A blockchain-based solution for streaming Chinese TV to the world

A mobile app that helps people track, report, and take action against street harassment.

A startup that wants to make it easier for restaurants to find chefs. It says that 10,000 chefs are searching for jobs online every day.

A network of “hackers” that help companies detect and prevent data breaches.

A real-time, on-demand adtech platform for brands.

A social network for people who want to broker deals online, offering a place to advertise, find buyers, and find sellers on the platform.

A data science company that uses machine learning to help brands better understand the number of people who’ve seen their ads.

“A self-service machine learning tool”

A ride-hailing app for the elderly that wants to reduce the number of older people who are dependent on caregivers.

WayUp wants to combine job listings with social recruiting to help connect job seekers with employers.

A secure, encrypted platform for file sharing in the workplace and outside of it.

A tool that helps designers and agencies collaborate remotely, building it into an all-in-one app for managing tasks and assets, helping them build cohesive teams.

A tool that helps people find specific flights, using data from travel agent websites. It’s a fairly simple concept but it will be interesting to see how they implement it as they try to become the Yelp for flights.

A digital marketplace where businesses can trade services with each other. Dutch startup has already built one app for this.

A mobile payment platform that allows businesses to accept payments in one of over 200 currencies and in local currencies. The startup is focused on working with small businesses around the world, but has signed up thousands of merchants in the last year.

The idea of the startup is to create a sort of "one stop shop" for all the different tools and products needed by a citizen journalist.

A task scheduler that enables users to create “micro-tasks” that can be scheduled and completed at a time of their choosing.

This startup is building a white label SaaS platform and mobile app that lets any company send a text message to let people know where they can park their cars.

A way for people to build their own low-cost homes using 3D printing, with a focus on the poor.

A platform for the “ultimate workout” in a virtual 3D environment. Its goal is to connect people to top fitness trainers who can offer the latest training techniques and advice.

A Singapore-based startup that aims to create a new, more accessible way for companies to collect payments.

A tool that helps developers create better apps by reducing the need to log into a bunch of different sites and apps to track their users. The startup is currently building out a product to help the Philadelphia Eagles build a better fan app.

A startup that helps restaurants manage their suppliers, with a mobile app that helps restaurants work with their suppliers easier. It has customers in the US, the UK, and Australia.

A data analytics platform that helps customers find the best places to run ads on Instagram.

A startup that makes it easy for people to find and hire freelancers to do tasks like build websites, edit and proofread documents, and more.

A startup that generates and sells CSV files for generating spreadsheets.

This is an app that uses AI to help people be more productive during their commute.

A startup that lets you put your phone number on a business card and connect with friends, family, and colleagues. The founders of this startup say they’re selling a lot of business cards, with over 1,200 cards shipped in 24 hours and a $1,500 monthly recurring revenue.

A tool for recruiters and hiring managers to put together a headshot portfolio of their candidates in their own style and feel.

A platform to let people buy and sell spare parts to each other, with an app that lets users do it.

Taking the speed and agility of the mobile web and developing a platform that can be used on any device, including desktops. The startup, which was started in 2013, is one of the few startups creating a truly mobile web application.

A digital storefront for physical objects, similar to Etsy but focused on travel and experiences.

A tool for tracking and managing travel expenses. They’re targeting the B2B space, where travel expenses can get expensive and difficult to track.

A startup that enables people to schedule errand runs in advance, so they don’t run around frantically at the last minute.

A software company that aims to provide a suite of tools to help people avoid missing payments. It handles a lot of the back end for consumer finance companies, including student loans and credit cards.

A program that would connect classrooms to the Internet and provide resources such as curriculums, tests, and other learning materials. The startup is looking to grow a large number of schools that connect classrooms and offer educational services.

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

A collaboration platform based on Slack and messaging, but with real-time polls and tasks, and the ability to set deadlines and budgets.

A SaaS for freelancers where employers can buy, track, and manage the work of freelance workers.

Helping companies avoid hiring unqualified contractors, this startup is a tool that helps companies quickly review a contractor’s experience and qualifications before entering into a contract.

BitMoon is building a platform for companies to run their own “digital currency ATMs” for cryptocurrency.

A startup that tracks how much time people spend on various things, and then automatically pays them. Aimed at product managers who want to make sure people aren’t getting distracted.

The startup aims to help brokers and sellers of used vehicles and vehicles for sale deal directly with each other.

A platform where people can get paid for vlogging, drawing, or creating content.

A startup that worked with a university to develop new materials for 3D printing that are conductive and conductive-free.

A company building software to help users find and book restaurants with the best deals in the area. The startup builds its own software by visiting each restaurant and taking photos of the menu.

The idea is to create a platform that allows companies to manage large expense accounts and seamlessly track whether they are being used for legitimate business purposes.

A studio based in Australia that wants to use its expertise in motion design to help brands create new products, both physical and digital.

A company that makes a tool that helps small businesses hire full-time help, with help in categories like marketing, communications, sales, and design.

, a financial-services startup that helps people borrow money against their house or car using their existing credit.

Companies today have huge backlogs of social and community management needs that are “outside the scope of their core competencies”

A software company that helps institutions like banks, retirement funds or 401(k) plans manage and track their investments, as well as settle trades. Think of it as Uber for your financial life.

A social platform that allows users to express themselves and create their own emojis

A company that helps companies build apps that understand the context of their users. The company has raised $2.5 million.

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A startup that wants to make it easier for people with respiratory diseases like COPD and asthma to breathe more easily.

This startup is building a real-time platform for banks to coordinate lending and investment by investors.

A web-based tool that helps you fight fraud in your insurance policy.

Software that helps users extract additional value from images like Instagram’s new “Stories” format.

A cloud-based platform for financial services, looking to help set up payment plans, make payments, and more.

An AI tool that aims to make it easier for users to research and buy travel, hotel and vacation packages

A startup that sells Android phones in bulk to the developing world

The startup is building an app that helps people find the best deals on home services from painters to plumbers.

A company that helps big companies and brands create branded content for their YouTube videos, using a system of “buzzwords” and keywords to make sure the content is relevant and engaging.

A startup that helps small businesses track repairs, maintenance, and replacements rather than having to rely on spreadsheets and stops receiving Ubers and other ride-share services.

An online platform that helps small business owners get access to capital, and which has an SBA loan program. It takes 5% off the top and has 2 customers so far.

An online marketplace that connects businesses to freelance designers and developers to create custom designs and then deliver them through a marketplace.

A startup that allows users to “shop” for a new car and track the progress of the purchase with a dashboard of all relevant information.

A startup that wants to create an online-only community for teachers, and eventually other professionals.

A startup that helps companies find and pay contractors and service providers across the world. The company will use the P2Pool tech popularized by bitcoin to help larger companies find and pay out thousands of contractors more efficiently.

This is a shop that’s trying to bring the best of a physical bookstore to the digital world. The startup is currently working with a handful of brick-and-mortar stores and wants to use partnerships with retailers like Barnes and Noble’s and Amazon to bring their digital storefront to those physical stores.

A platform for connecting people to their favorite foods, which will help people find new foods they might like. The startup’s developers have been known to check out new restaurants and talk to restaurant workers to understand the space.

A machine learning software that analyzes users’ shopping cart contents, suggesting other items to buy.

A platform that helps people get a computer for under $200. The startup has developed a tool that allows people to ask a computer what its components are, and then use its own parts database to compare prices at various online retailers.

A social network for subscribers of the New York Times to share content and engage with one another.

An AI that predicts stock performance based on the news it hears.

A tool for helping people manage their tax filings by seeing who’s owed what and for what. The company tracks nontaxable income and credits, and helps you fill out your tax returns.

This startup is creating a mobile app and website to help low-income families get home loans.

A company that currently offers three different pitches for selling your business, including a video pitch and a one-page plan.

A startup that is building a marketplace for real estate agents in India. The startup wants to prove that since agents can create more leads for potential sellers, they should be able to charge more for their services.

A small business software company that helps businesses grow by providing analytics on sales, expenses, and customer acquisition.

A platform that helps companies use the internet of things to monitor their buildings

The company wants to create a “next-gen” version of a CRM that integrates with your email inbox and calendar.

A startup that helps people with disabilities to communicate more easily

A startup that provides insights into competitors’ markets, products and pricing.

A company that works like a freelancer for the insurance industry, with a focus on claims and claims handling.

A platform that allows outside contractors to get references from employers and contractors, and better manage their own work history.

This company is building a software platform that connects manufacturers with small and medium-sized businesses that need digital printing solutions, including direct mail, invitations, catalogs, posters, and more.

A startup that helps people manage their money by mapping out their goals and their savings. People can then use the tool to “plug in” their goals and see how much their savings go towards them.

A startup that wants to collaborate on a shared games platform and community.

A software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform which allows banks and securities exchanges to use machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation to make their markets more efficient.

An economic, privacy-centric decentralized messaging platform that uses a “protocol layer,” or messaging layer, based on IPFS. A messaging protocol could be used in a variety of ways, but the company’s focus is to create a decentralized, secure messaging protocol that can be used by internet users.

A payment architecture for micro-businesses in India, which allows a business to instantly have a customer pay their invoice.

A company that helps people create a digital record of their identities, including birth certificates and passports.

This startup helps users find and repair faulty appliances.

A developer platform for building and managing software applications. The company is launching with one product, but plans to scale across several verticals.

This is a social platform where users can post their own stories in order to inspire others.

This startup is building an app to help people with mental illness manage their health. The app aims to make mental health care more accessible and affordable.

The company is building a health and wellness platform for fitness instructors that helps them manage their clients’ progress and create video content for them.

A startup that uses AI to help streams of data such as customer feedback, sales, and more, be used to help a company make better decisions and get a better sense of the future.

This real estate startup helps buyers and Sellers negotiate properties with a series of automated videos and text messages. It also takes a commission for each sale.

A learning platform that helps people learn how to do certain things through a variety of different means.

A startup that wants to grow in the middle east and eventually offer a hub for those looking to find a doctor, dentist, or other healthcare professional in their area.

An online platform for secondary market transactions, where you can buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments.

A startup focused on helping Indigenous communities in Canada. The startup aims to build a platform to help Indigenous people unite, and use technology to help them create their own economic independence.

This company is working to reduce the environmental impact of transit and bikes.

A mobile application that helps companies create new products. The app helps companies create new products without any coding knowledge.

The startup wants to help you track and control your expenses by allowing you to record expenses in one place and then automatically create reports that show how much you’re spending on certain items.

A home care service that helps seniors find caregivers to stay in their homes.

A startup that’s trying to solve the problem of companies not having a marketing platform that’s not just search engine optimized.

A startup that’s building a marketplace where companies can offer to do tasks on demand. The startup wants to replace the process of asking people to perform menial tasks with tasks that can be automated.

A collaboration platform that helps data scientists work together better. This business has more than $1 million in funding in both seed and Series A rounds.

A tool for creative teams to collaborate on video production, enabling teams to collaborate in real-time and make better decisions in a faster and more efficient way.

A new tool for booking and promoting artists and live shows, currently in private beta.

A tool that helps people manage their investments and savings, using an app and online interface.

A data conversion app that brings the search experience of Google to Facebook (similar to how Twitter brought the search experience to Facebook.)

A startup that wants to empower employees to make their own technology decisions, rather than giving them a limited set of options.

A way to organize the “real-time” data that’s coming out of sensors on your phone. The startup has raised $850,000 to date.

VaynerMedia is an advertising agency that has pivoted its business into a platform for influencer marketing, with the goal of creating “a financial engine” for influencers, allowing them to monetize their content.

A startup that’s building a decentralized system for digital advertising, which they say is able to reach nearly a billion users without paying any fees.

A Chrome extension that makes it easier for brands to create Facebook Live videos.

A restaurant that allows customers to order food on their phones. The app is meant to be a more human interface to the kitchen and to reduce wait times at the restaurant.

A startup that aims to bring on-demand services like Uber to the B2B travel sector with a new service called Travia that will allow travel managers to hire drivers for their clients on-demand.

A tool for visualizing and sharing people’s potential

A tool for keeping track of the people who are responsible for delivering a project.

A startup that helps users manage their "digital assets" including photos, music, text, and documents. The company says they already offer the ability to manage tasks, or "chores" in their app, which allows users to specify a daily or weekly routine, and the app tracks their progress. The company also offers a service that allows users to build "to-do lists" out of their digital assets.

Idea: A simple, powerful, and intuitive tool for creating smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain

An API for funding startups from the world’s largest banks.

A company that helps companies build mobile apps for different markets, including developing nations.

A coworking space that hosts entrepreneurs for meetings. They are hosting a series of events and are looking for members.

A startup that provides a service for people who are interested in learning how to do their own home repairs

A B2B company that helps businesses automate the process of collecting customer data, verifying customer identities, and providing customers with a credit score.

A new way for businesses to access a global pool of labor, with the startup saying its product is the first that works without a recruiting agency.

A new blockchain platform that allows companies to digitize and track intellectual property from idea to final product.

This startup is building a software platform for companies to manage customer support in their apps, helping them to answer incoming support requests, negotiate with agents to resolve problems in real-time, and chat with customers.

A startup that uses a sensor and a mobile app to monitor heart rate and push the data to a doctor’s smartphone. This ensures the doctor has a real-time read on the patient’s health.

A new blockchain platform that allows companies to digitize and track intellectual property from idea to final product.

A platform for independent musicians to sell their music and share revenue with the people that buy it.

A platform for investing in a hedge fund, which will make use of the equity in your portfolio.

Wix wants to be the “Facebook for small business owners”, connecting small businesses with a network of experts and allowing them to build their own custom pages and use Facebook’s advertising platform.

College employment data is hard to get, and many prospective students are unaware of job-seeking opportunities in their region.

A messaging app for the enterprise, aimed at the “creative” market. The company wants to use the app for project management, chat, and productivity.

A startup that helps your car know that you’re driving it, and save you money on gas.

A new technology that enables a 3D printed object to be “printed” onto a different object without the need for assembly.

This app is designed for people with mobility issues to schedule and manage their indoor activities. The startup wants to bring technology to a new market of people with mobility issues.

A startup that builds apps for the home to help consumers track their energy usage.

A company that helps employees set up an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) at their company

A tool that lets anyone create a site on the web.

A new startup that wants to create a platform for the sharing of knowledge, data, and expertise in the global marketplace. The startup is also planning a crowdfunding campaign to help build out their platform.

A “Trump-proof” tax reform calculator that’s pre-populated with the latest tax brackets and deductions to give individuals a better understanding of the proposed tax changes.

A digital payments startup that offers a way for customers to pay for goods at restaurants, bars, and stores without cash. Payfirma users have transacted $15 million in the United States and Europe since launching in early 2019.

A startup that connects tooling companies and manufacturers to help them integrate with their companies’ manufacturing processes.

A startup that calls itself the Amazon of homeopathic products. The company sells and ships over a hundred products to consumers, including aromatherapy oils that help people relax. It’s the leading homeopathic e-commerce site in the UK.

A freelance marketplace that connects with all the best freelance marketplaces and applies its own fraud protection.

A startup that helps people make better use of their smartphones. It’s a powerful tool for people who work on the road but don’t have a laptop.

The startup is building an app that will enable people to find out the best time to take their medication.

A tool for creating and managing user accounts in a company’s infrastructure.

A platform that lets businesses sell directly to their customers – similar to services like Shopify or Stripe.

In-home health care is a $100 billion industry in the US and $5 trillion worldwide. Startups like Health2Go and TeleCare are trying to make it easier for health care workers to provide medical services at home.

This startup wants to make the world’s most durable tablet, one that can withstand a drop from a boat in the ocean, or a puddle of coffee.

A social media tool that allows users to upload selfies and then tag them with certain details. The startup wants to make it easier for people to tag a photo with information, whether it be the date or a description.

This startup is building a “self-driving” robotic delivery system that drives around a city and drops off packages at people’s houses

A platform for small businesses that want to sell their products online without a website. It’s like Etsy, but it doesn’t require a website.

This startup is building an AI-driven assistant for doctors. It uses machine learning to identify symptoms, then recommends treatment based on a doctors’ knowledge of patients. The startup hopes the system will lead to more affordable, personalized care.

The company wants to avoid the mistakes that surround the establishment of a new startup in India.

A maker of smartphones and tablets, the startup wants to sell its own operating system and make its own hardware.

A startup that’s building an app that will help users to change their appearance in real time, combining the optically-corrective benefits of makeup and the photorealistic capabilities of CGI.

A tool for building and selling websites. The startup is focused on making it easier for developers to create websites on the web. The company has just launched its beta version, which is limited to 500 people, and offering an invite-only experience in exchange for a $40 monthly subscription.

A social club, which lets women meet up for activities like yoga, running, and brunch with other women who also enjoy these things.

This startup wants to build a “marketplace” for the millions of small businesses that are currently operating outside of the US. They support businesses in multiple countries, and would like to expand into the US.

A company that provides the top digital marketing agency in the world with a digital presence outside of their clients’ websites.

A B2B company that allows companies to build a custom supply chain network for their products

Takes the hassle out of managing your business’s digital presence with a single platform, with tools for editing and sharing your website, e-mail and social media posts.

A B2B company that helps organizations with purchasing power analyze their supply chains.

A startup that helps real estate agents research and collect leads for potential tenants.

A platform that helps businesses and job seekers find and connect with remote teams. Currently, they're working with a company in Brooklyn called Crave that hires people remotely through a third-party site.

A “complete” e-commerce solution for a one-stop-shopping experience for customers. The startup is currently adding free shipping to customers, and plans to add paid shipping options.

A productivity startup that wants to make office Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel much more efficient. Available on Windows/Mac.

A credit card company that lets you borrow from your credit card to pay for things and roll it over for up to a year if you can’t pay it back.

A company that’s building machine-learning technology to help train and manage AI-powered chatbots.

A loyalty program that helps brands manage their customers, enabling them to deliver loyalty programs via web and mobile.

A startup that plans to help high-net-worth families invest more in their offspring early on, by offering a way to invest in children’s college savings while they’re still in high school.

The company is building a tool for makers to test their products, with the goal of making failure less painful and more predictable.

A mobile app that helps people donate blood when they’re within a certain distance of a blood donation center.

A wearable device that alerts you when your oven is on, or when a door or window is opened or closed. The company, which was founded in May, also lets parents monitor children’s activities.

A startup so people can get their next oil change, tune up, or tire rotation delivered to their home via the internet.

A platform for overseeing autonomous vehicles, which are seen as the next big thing for ride-hailing companies.

A startup that uses AI to create images of everything from mountains to people's faces

A tool for automating the process of diagnosing and fixing problems in cars.

A tool that brings together the many different systems a small business needs to run smoothly and help them keep track of that information.

A new way of sharing and viewing live video. The app integrates with Facebook Live and Periscope, allowing you to watch your friends and family broadcast live.

A digital farm management solution which gives farmers a way to manage their farms on their smartphones.

An all-in-one accounting and invoicing solution for small businesses. The company is focusing on K-12 schools and universities.

A program for giving tips to Uber drivers. It’s a mobile phone app that facilitates the sharing of tips and information with drivers.

A startup that helps designers and developers build custom plugins for their sites.

A video content platform that gives advertisers a way to test their messaging on real people. Users share short videos from their lives, and brands can see how their ad performs in that context.

This company helps consumers compare credit cards, and also helps retailers understand the costs of credit cards on their in-store cards. The company charges an annual fee, but it’s so far been able to build a strong network of merchants and credit card issuers.

A tool to make it easier for investors to manage their cryptocurrency portfolios.

The 2017 batch was selected based on their work in the field, their potential to drive positive social impact, and their fit with Y Combinator’s mission. The following companies were selected:

A mobile app that helps people donate blood when they’re within a certain distance of a blood donation center.

An online learning platform that uses computer vision to teach people how to code

A directory of the world’s best remote job sites, curated by the founders of Remote Year.

A social platform for people to connect with local businesses. The app works as a “local discovery app” that helps people discover places to eat and shop, and connects them with local businesses.

E-learning platform that’s focused on helping new parents learn how to take care of their baby.

A platform that allows users to make their own websites and then connect them to Facebook and other social networks.

A company that provides a platform for artists to share their work and connect with fans. They currently have over 400 artists, and plan to announce a partnership with a major US publisher in the coming weeks.

A “first-of-its-kind” brand that focuses on selling to people who are new to buying into the internet.

A game a la “Whack-a-mole” that’s designed to help people get out of their own way. It’s designed to help people get past their own limitations to help them focus on the things that matter most in their lives.

Blockchain capital management for SMBs, designed to help them access capital from banks.

A desktop-based tool for making mockups of websites and apps.

A software company that helps with better management of digital marketing for B2B companies in China. The startup helps companies with data management, social media management, and use of AI.

An AI that uses machine learning to assess a job candidate’s personality and identify the appropriate job for them.

A startup looking to solve the problem of managing customer data in the healthcare ecosystem.

A startup that helps you pay your bills online and via text message.

A startup that wants to use its platform to help people who’ve lost their jobs to network with new jobs and improve their chances of getting one.

A startup that lets you move money between your bank accounts anywhere in the world, including in real time

A way to help people file tax returns for free.

Growth hacking tool for app developers.

A SaaS app that helps anyone create a custom cable channel for Slack, built on top of the existing Slack API.

A startup that helps businesses become more efficient by keeping track of what they spend money on in terms of time and labor.

A digital platform that enables brands to create and manage campaigns for their customers.

A SaaS service that helps retail companies better understand what their customers are doing online, and engage with them in real-time. It’s an extension of the company’s existing analytics offering, which helps retailers understand what their customers are buying, and then use that information to sell to them.

A startup that aims to give you a better way to pay for a home’s mortgage. It’s a mobile app that lets you see, manage, and pay for your home’s mortgage from your phone.

A health startup that was part of the Techstars accelerator.

A platform that lets you buy and sell luxury real estate, with inventory sourced from Realtor.com

A B2B startup that uses artificial intelligence to train machine learning models to help companies predict demand for their products.

This startup aims to transform the face of venture capital by making it more accessible, more transparent, and with more fairness to investors. The startup aims to provide investors with a better way to manage their portfolio, and better tools to manage their investments.

Slack is a chat system for teams that uses a chatbot-like interface. The startup’s bot is called “Dalai,” whose goal is to make the process of building a Slack team a smooth experience.

A startup for people who have accumulated a lot of debt and can’t pay it off. The startup aims to help people in more than 20 countries pay down the principal on their debts.

A tool to help create video magic effects like fire effects and text on images. The startup wants to enable content creators to create better results with more limited tools.

A startup that tries to get people to take more time off from work to pursue personal interests, such as by creating a way to track a user’s vacation days.

A wearable device that allows people to control their smart home devices with their movements without having to go hands-on.

A company that offers financial training to people around the world.

A way for all your email accounts to be in one place.

A digital platform for managing and organizing the PTO requests at many places. The platform uses artificial intelligence to help employees make requests and track which ones get completed.

An online service for finding and recommending top quality, value for money restaurants.

A machine learning platform that uses machine learning to predict which products will sell well.

A company that wants to take the hassle out of hiring at startups.

The company is pairing the digital technology used by banks to process payments to the physical elements of a cash machine, such as a keypad and a printer, to create an end-to-end solution.

A small business accounting software that offers a free trial, then bumps up prices based on number of users.

A startup that allows companies to create “virtual” websites that provide marketing solutions to potential customers.

A startup that helps users connect and collaborate on documents, without the overhead of a traditional email list.

A tool to help companies bring their products to market faster. The startup’s founders believe that the traditional development process of building a product from scratch can often be too long and slow.

A tool to help writers set their own rates for the use of their work.

A SaaS company that helps employers manage their employee benefits in a simple, easy-to-use platform.

An investment platform for angel investors, allowing them to find and screen startups for investment opportunities.

A startup that wants to build a smartphone camera that can shoot video in 360 degrees.

"It’s in the works," said Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist who has invested in the company. "We’re thinking about a lot of things that I can’t talk about today."

Some of these startups are still in Y Combinator, but most have graduated and launched.

A cloud-based platform for nonprofits and charities to manage their donor interaction and communications.

A company that helps people quickly book flights by way of a flashcard-like app

A bank account for small business owners that builds off of the popular social network Huddle. The startup is building a way for small businesses to connect with each other and build relationships with banks, suppliers, and other businesses with which they do business.

A tool that helps people manage their investments and track their returns, with a team of professional investors ready to help answer questions.

A user-generated marketplace for project management tools, allowing companies to sell them to the public

A home care startup helping families with elder care and adult day care. They plan to use a network to match older adults with families that need care.

A startup that helps people explore the world around them by allowing them to connect with those who live near them and share their local knowledge

A startup for small businesses to access payment processing services.

The company is developing a software platform that connects freelancers, agencies or employers with service providers such as plumbers, electricians, acupuncturists, etc. It’s meant to make the process of hiring a service easier, with a marketplace for the service providers.

A Chrome extension that turns any website into a mobile app shop. Employs a “re-imagined” version of Google’s well-known design language.

A tool that helps people achieve their “unrealized potential,” with a focus on improving education.

A customer relationship management (CRM) tool for doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in the US

A startup that helps amateur photographers and amateurs take better photos. The startup is building a photo editing app that makes it easier for people to improve their photography by adding in the most important shutter speed and aperture settings.

A platform that pairs people who have a spare room in their home with those who need a place to stay.

Devolution’s job is to help clients like restaurants and hotels find individual employees to fill vacancies. The company uses a combination of algorithms and human-rating to match candidates to specific jobs.

A hardware wallet for bitcoin. A recent redesign has brought in some features that were previously only available for the Ledger.

A startup for brands to sell their unused ad space, which the startup says is worth $6 billion.

The event took place on Friday, November 16th at 9:00 am at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Apple’s iOS operating system lacks a centralized directory to find and open files. Filefactory has built a solution that will let you “find files and get notifications for files that are important to you—in any app”.

This startup’s mission is to make helping out in-person with home repairs as easy as booking a ride on Uber

A startup that provides a service to help people learn how to fix things around the house

A tool for small businesses to document processes and create charts and graphs to help them make the right decisions.

A SaaS for finding and researching freelance remote workers.

This company is building a platform that helps make it easier for people to move their money out of banks and into digital wallets like Google Pay and AliPay.

A travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.

A platform for managing HR tasks like time tracking, attendance, and budgeting.

A tech-enabled market for finding and hiring high-quality freelancers. The company’s aim is to help small businesses expand their reach and have access to a more comprehensive pool of talent.

A machine learning startup that builds innovative software to help people learn and save money on everyday purchases.

A platform that connects lenders to people who have bad credit to pay loans back on time. The company’s cofounder, David Leon, says the company is profitable, has more than $1.3 million in loans, and has been servicing loans for over a year.

A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.

This startup from Stanford is building a social network for software engineers to share work references, solve problems, and collaborate.

Tribute functions as a shared custody platform for various family members, allowing them to track spending and keep track of things like medical records. The startup is currently only focused on family members, but is looking to expand to other kinds of multi-family sharing.

This startup is building a portable bio-sensor that can measure drugs in the body through non-invasive blood tests. The sensors are worn like a necklace and are powered by a single AAA battery.

The startup has raised a total of $1.6M so far, with current customers including Yardi Systems, Tesla, and Amazon.

A startup that will tell a person a story about their life and put it online for free so it can become a “memoir-on-demand” by a company that pays you for it.

A developer and designer for building web apps for the smart home market.

A startup that builds software to help the people of Puerto Rico rebuild after Hurricane Maria.

The startup aims to create a more reliable way to check on the accuracy of data from polls and surveys. Right now, the polling industry is rife with inaccuracies: misreported data, false positives, and false negatives.

A platform that allows multiple users to create a single item, then share it with a single shipping address.

A platform for building mobile applications for small businesses, with an easy-to-use dashboard. The startup is looking to compete with popular platforms like Square and Stripe.

This startup builds an AI-powered bot that can help your team collaborate more effectively.

A startup that is building a mobile app to help drivers avoid parking tickets. They’re also looking to partner with local governments.

This startup starts with a mobile app that can take payments for rent.

An online tool for finding homes for sale in the U.S.

A P2P service that lets you borrow money from your friends to fix your car, fix your leaky roof, or do whatever you need to do.

This is a tool for helping restaurants manage employees, including payroll and schedules.

A way to help people share and sell their assets, from furniture to cars, with a dedicated app.

A digital tool to help the UN to create non-geographic identifiers for refugees, to protect them from cyber-harassment and improve their access to services.

This startup is building a way to take a picture of your face, and then the computer will tell you what emotion you are feeling.

A cloud-based accounting and financial management platform for startups.

A travel site for teens and young adults.

An ecommerce platform for food that’s grown organically and locally with a focus on freshness and sustainability.

This is an app that helps people practice the piano through video lessons and games. The company is part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 batch.

A way for brands to get their products in front of potential customers. The startup was founded in January, and has already partnered with companies like Warby Parker and Patagonia to get their products in front of customers.

A medical device company that wants to make it easier for people to order medical supplies through their cellphones. The startup is already shipping its devices to doctors and hospitals.

A platform that simplifies and speeds up the process of applying for a mortgage.

This app wants to help you find a good plumber for your house, and helps you book them before the job, so you’re not standing in the rain for three hours waiting for a plumber to show up.

A “marketplace for helping people sell their used fitness gear”.

A company that helps non-profits and foundations streamline their operations by using software to connect their various databases and systems.

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to leverage social media and e-mail marketing to build their brand and drive ROI.

A startup that is building a marketplace for real estate agents in India. The startup wants to prove that since agents can create more leads for potential sellers, they should be able to charge more for their services.

Fintech company that offers investors a way to borrow against their crypto holdings.

This is an ongoing list of startups that have raised funding. This list is compiled from Crunchbase and other news sources.

A platform that helps you make never-ending, premium video content for your YouTube channel. It allows creators to generate content and not worry about the ad revenue.

A company that’s building a mobile app that gives users a way to get feedback on their businesses.

This is a tool that helps you find a product’s best price and most popular reviews, based on a variety of factors.

Maps.me is a mapping service that works offline

A company that helps people save money on insurance by using a comparison engine (think Amazon Prime) to help find the best rates.

A software company for managing health insurance. The startup wants to simplify the process of registering for health insurance so that the process is fast and hassle-free.

An artificial intelligence powered platform that connects merchants and consumers to automate and simplify the payment process.

This company wants to help you “make your own damn cheese”, with a 3D printer that will create your own cheese.

A tool for creating personalized videos for social media. The startup says they have 20 employees and are profitable and growing in the US, with a 10% conversion rate.

This startup is building a software suite that integrates field data with information and insights that can be used to make better business decisions.

A company that allows people to sell their used cars without having to sell them themselves, instead allowing some sort of intermediary to do it for them.

A startup that helps real estate agents and their clients connect and update each others’ calendars.

A startup that helps people optimize their email lists with personalized emails and messages

A web platform for the government to share information about drugs for prescription.

A startup that wants to use AI to help corporations figure out how to fix their workforce’s hiring problems.

A startup that wants to make facial recognition technology more accessible. The startup has a software to allow anyone to use the technology to identify faces, and a device to allow anyone to control a webcam and detect faces themselves.

A company that helps you better understand your social media habits, so you can better market yourself and your business.

This startup makes it easy for businesses to find a contractor to handle a job.

The startup's goal is to help build an open platform for publishing and sharing data between developers and scientists. They want to build a new experience for scientists to learn about the data they have, so they can get it into the hands of a broader developer community.

This is an app that helps people practice the piano through video lessons and games. The company is part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 batch.

This startup asks the question: “What if you could make your kitchen more efficient” If you want to save money on electricity, the company says, you could make your kitchen more efficient, cut down on your food waste, save time, and eat healthier.

A platform for organizing campaigns, parties, and conferences.

A tool for shifting content from one social media to another. The platform connects to the various social networks that a business has, allowing them to monitor and shift their content between them.

A tool for loan officers to get a quote on a loan before they sign a client.

A B2B app for corporations that helps them better manage the costs of their business and their employees.

A SaaS-base app that helps buyers of home services find the best deal on a service.

A digital, mobile payment solution for women’s clinics.

A web-based productivity tool for freelancers that lets them create and collaborate on projects, track their progress, and manage their projects with a shared calendar and task management.

Providing 360-degree video for drone companies, including Dji, and has developed an app for flight planning.

A web-based tool meant to help teachers connect with parents of their students. The startup has $1.8 million in funding and a $5 million valuation.

A way to track and analyze the performance of a salesperson

A “data mining tool for healthcare companies” that aims to reduce the time it takes to build predictive models for their customers, and to help them make better decisions on who to target for their products.

A travel app for the budget conscious, which wants to be the Uber for bus tickets in the US.

The startup is building an open source custom-built hardware for internet of things devices.

A platform that aims to be the Uber of errand work. The idea is that an employee can tap into the service using a smartphone, and then an app will ping them for errands that will help them get stuff done.

A company that connects buyers with sellers of used cars via a mobile app.

A platform that lets people sell their unused gadgets; the startup is targeting consumers and entrepreneurs in need of cash for their tech.

A tool for finding student housing.

A robotics company building a machine to help build and repair houses. The company wants to make construction faster, more efficient, and more affordable.

A medical record-tracking app for doctors. The startup is currently being used to track 3,000 patients in the US.

A video-sharing site focused on sharing original content with the goal of earning revenue through ads and paid subscriptions

A tool that promises to automatically create a shortlist of candidates and automate the process of collecting feedback on them. It uses crowdsourcing to make an AI-based list, and provides coaching to the candidate to see if the feedback is accurate.

A web-based platform that allows users to take pictures of their items and then automatically price them against other markets. The startup plans on using the data to build a price engine to help consumers compare prices on items they may not be able to find locally.

This is a platform that helps companies create digital storybooks for their brand as a way to digitally age product.

A DIY website builder that allows users to drag and drop website elements such as videos, images, and widgets to build websites quickly.

A startup that is building a data engine to help workers manage their health insurance.

Idea: A startup that wants to help hotels automate their check-in and check-out process, using a self-check-in mobile app. They’re taking on competitors like Vogue and Rezidor.

A platform for finding healthcare and life insurance for people with pre-existing conditions.

A platform that aims to help make the process of managing insurance claims easier.

A company that makes mobile games for kids. The startup is best known for its games for preschoolers and its games are made in partnership with a number of companies, including Disney and Nickelodeon.

A digital platform for buying and selling things to other people.

A platform for finding chefs that can cook for you, for a fee, across a variety of restaurants. Peers who want to hire a chef post what they’re looking for, and chefs can bid on each request.

A company that helps teams organize their work by creating a virtual office space.

A contact lens that can fool your eye into believing you’re seeing a TV.

A startup that aims to help brands create a "more human" social media presence.

A startup that wants to help organizations cost-effectively learn, measure, and deploy AI.

This startup wants to make it easier for developers to build and run apps, by building a cloud-based platform that makes it easier to manage, deploy and manage apps, with a focus on security.

A smart earphone that syncs with your phone and tracks your health habits, goals, and progress.

This company is building a social system for social media influencers to pitch products to their followers.

A startup that provides remote control boats for kids who live in apartments

A startup to find and buy used furniture, which makes the process easier for both buyers and sellers. The company is currently in beta, with the site having been live on a small scale for just over a year.

A startup that allows users to keep track of their car insurance payments, then automatically pays the insurance company.

The first NFC app to let users order food directly on their phones, in advance, and pay using just a tap. It’s currently being used in Paris to order ahead at restaurants, hotels, and cafes.

A platform that provides data-driven analytics to help guide companies in making the right decisions. They’re currently in early seed, with the founders describing their value as helping companies “make better decisions with less data”.

A startup that wants to replace the static, static-y nature of HTML with a dynamic, collaborative interface that allows you to write web pages with a visual dynamic editor that also enables you to work collaboratively with others. The startup is using the same tech they’re using to build the editor to create a mobile app that’s also dynamic and collaborative.

A startup that offers an online subscription service to pay for parking in downtown San Francisco. The startup also offers a mobile app that allows customers to pay for parking without going into an office.

A map that can help you meet up with friends who are stuck in traffic.

An online lending platform that lowers the costs of borrowing for micro-finance companies.

An AI-powered assistant that helps build websites. The startup is looking to help people build high-quality websites in short cycles of time.

The startup is meant to help people with colds breathe easier by creating a way to track their symptoms and home-remedies. The startup plans to launch in the UK this winter.

A digital platform for journalists to gather information from sources and then turn it into a story.

A medical device that can detect breast cancer, in a more affordable and less invasive way than current tools. It’s not FDA approved yet, but the founders say they have been talking to a number of medical companies that have expressed interest.

A startup that provides a service where people can have a personal assistant who is an expert at daily activities (laundry, cooking, cleaning)

It’s a basic accounting app for small businesses, geared towards non-accountants. It allows users to connect their bank accounts and get a basic accounting system for their company.

This company is building a toolkit for managing and monitoring your content marketing campaigns. The goal is to make it easy for companies to build and manage their content marketing programs.

It’s a company that offers a way for people to buy and sell used parts, like alternators, spark plugs, or fuel pumps, using the same FBA business model that Amazon uses to sell used items.

The startup is building a platform for DIY networked storage, which it says is about “unlocking the power and potential of the cloud”.

A venture-backed company that is creating a new, cloud-based platform that helps manufacturers manage and track inventory.

an app that lets people record and upload short videos for free

A startup that’s built a network of independent developers who are building software for the enterprise.

A “digital arm” inside of other companies that can help businesses deal with regulatory compliance and customer data issues, including GDPR.

A tool to make it easier for small businesses to find creative professionals in their neighborhood.

A B2B company that manages third-party contractors.

This startup is building an automated sales tool that helps you find your most profitable deals, track their progress and communicate with vendors. The startup has two customers so far, but plans to launch in the San Francisco Bay Area in Q3.

A user-friendly mobile app for small businesses that helps them manage their marketing campaigns, and includes analytics on the performance of campaigns.

A startup developing a platform for employees to be notified of their schedule, get a link to the correct file, and set up auto-expiring files. The startup is mainly focused on the logistics of building out their system and should have a better idea of when they’ll launch by the end of the year.

A company that helps employees and businesses connect their payroll systems through a common API.

A company that makes business software for small businesses. In February 2017, Infusionsoft closed a Series B funding round led by Greylock Partners that raises the company’s valuation to $200 million.

A Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to make it easier for small entrepreneurs to start a business by allowing them to get investment by crowdsourcing investors’ ideas.

An online bank that focuses on serving lower and middle income customers.

A startup that wants to make it easy for developers to build and host websites of their own Think of it like WordPresscom, but for developers

A company that’s building a “Netflix for fitness”. The company wants to be able to provide “instant-on, personalized, scalable, and effective fitness programs”.

A portfolio app for young entrepreneurs, giving them a place to showcase their work by way of a digital portfolio.

A team of researchers is working on a product to help deaf people communicate better.

A startup that wants to make social media more fun, enabling people to share their stories in a more immersive way.

Newfund is building a platform that uses big data to make it easier for companies to raise capital from investors.

A platform that provides an online whiteboard for teams to brainstorm ideas, build prototypes and collaborate.

A bike-sharing startup that has raised $5 million and launched in Seattle. The company bills itself as the Uber of bikes, and promises bikes that arrive within five minutes of being requested.

A hot air balloon tour company that uses an app on your phone to track time, location, and food intake on the ride.

This healthcare startup wants to help employees avoid the cycle of health insurance premiums and high deductibles. They send a monthly debit card to employees, and can be customized to cover a certain amount of money per month for a certain service, ranging from life insurance to primary care to dental. They’re profitable and growing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A company that sells a series of “smart” tables, with a companion app that lets you create and manage schedules, while allowing you to send out notifications to everyone in your group.

A startup that raises money for startups that are already viable, but can’t get seed funding because of their stage. The company does this by selling “Seed Equity” to customers pledging to invest in startups with certain characteristics.

The startup is building a platform that helps companies connect with a workforce of industrial roboticists. It has 4 customers signed up, including a commercial drone company and a company that makes industrial robots.

A B2C online platform that helps people look up the prices of products and services without having to use a phone or computer. It uses the Apple Wallet API to pull up prices from thousands of retailers and automatically applies a coupon.

A startup that helps guide companies through the often confusing world of employee equity.

A company that helps people manage and record the items they use in their “digital lives”.

A startup that’s building a “self-service digital environment” for legal firms and law students with a heavy focus on helping them find the right law firm for them.

Job advice apps that can respond to questions from users, sometimes even prior to them typing them.

A music app that lets you share a playlist with other people in real time, rather than sending them a link to a Dropbox or Google Drive copy.

A way to for people to track their water consumption and saving goals in real-time.

A digital assistant for your phone in India, to help you pay bills, book cabs, and get real-time info on fares.

This app helps content creators sell their products on Amazon, using a digital storefront.

A platform that connects people looking to go back to school with students willing to help each other out with things like homework, tutoring, and test prep. The founders say they’ve already helped more than 6,000 students fill out their applications and get into the class of their dreams.

A startup that lets consumers get recommendations on travel options based on the interest they already have in a destination.

This is a tool for creating and managing custom e-commerce solutions on the Shopify platform.

A digital assistant for travel planning, to help you find the cheapest flights, hotels, and car rentals. The startup has raised $2.5 million.

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A device that turns a smartphone into a large screen monitor. It’s an inexpensive way to stream content on a big screen.

A task management tool that helps teams track projects, assign tasks, and discuss their progress.

We’ve covered many e-commerce startups in the past year, but this one is different. An e-commerce startup that is focused on helping people find the right products for their needs.

A startup that helps entrepreneurs in the UK build and scale their startup quickly.

This startup is building a tool to make building custom software easier for non-coders. It's similar to tools like Kaleidoscope or CodeRunner.

A chatbot that helps people decide which insurance plan to select.

A “tapping service” for restaurants that allows them to tap-in the orders that come in over their phone line. The startup is targeting restaurants and catering companies that don’t have a phone line.

A cloud-based phone system for companies. It’s designed to be a suite of tools that works with the other tools the company already has in place, including a phone, PBX and computer system.

A startup that provides a service for helping people with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

A way to track and share the process of finding a new job, which can be time-consuming for employers.

A tool for hiring contractors and interior designers

A startup for buying and selling home appliances. Their current focus is on selling used appliances, which they want to make a one-touch online purchase process.

A startup that offers unique white label savings, that lets users use a single card for all their purchases and save them money. The company says it has $15 million in annual recurring revenue.

Idea: A company that makes a home security camera that only records when it detects a loud noise.

A B2B company that helps companies oversee employees who are abroad, allowing them to keep tabs on how employees are using their tools, and providing them with detailed and localized customer service.

A startup that wants to make your money work for you, without having to do the work yourself. The company’s first product is a small device that makes it easier for people to open their credit card accounts, and has plans to expand to other financial products like insurance.

A platform that uses machine learning to help people manage their finances. It currently has a team of 28 people.

An alternative to credit cards for startups, based out of Spain.

This startup is building a network of rooms for individuals with specific needs, like for aging parents or recovering addicts.

A B2B company helping companies manage global security risk.

Telematic is an online distribution platform that turns any online-based seller into an actual physical retail store. It’s a bit like Overstock or Ebay or Amazon, but instead of buying an item through an online-based website, you can actually buy the item in a physical store. The company was founded in 2016.

An online tool for assessing the health of a business’s sales pipeline.

A new kind of medical imaging device that can detect early-stage cancers.

A company that takes your design, draws it on a screen, and then 3D prints it.

A company that helps people easily find local, personal tax preparers. It’s a bit like TaxJar, which helps make tax season less painful.

A platform where users can build and sell their own apps, getting paid in cryptocurrency.

A startup that provides a service for people who want to lose a few pounds (they find a meal plan for them and help them stick to it)

A way for all your email accounts to be in one place.

A startup that connects artists with consumers for music licensing.

A startup that aims to make a better, cheaper, faster and more accurate way to calculate the radiation dose you receive from the sun and other sources of radiation.

A mobile app that allows users to easily send and receive money. The startup was founded in July and is focused on working with local banks in the US. It aims to get users to use the app to send money directly to their local bank accounts or other people’s bank accounts.

A small-business website that’s a “one-stop shop for all things small business — from marketing to accounting.”

The startup has a suite of products, including a digital assistant that helps manage marketing. It’s aimed at large companies that want to tell their stories in a way that’s more likely to get attention.

A startup that provides a service for helping people record their life story so that they can leave a historical account for their family

The company is building a platform for managing citizen dialog on local issues. The cofounders say that more than $6 billion is spent on lobbying each year, and the platform would make it easier for citizens to have their voices heard in government.

A product that allows you to request a ride on Uber without having to download an app. Users just have to link their phone number to their account.

A company that helps coaches and athletes turn their personal exercise routines into business opportunities.

A financial tool that helps SMBs manage cash flow.

This personal finance startup wants to help people build a complete and accurate picture of their finances. The startup itself is based on a DIY personal finance blog.

Transact is a platform that connects brands with fans via social media, allowing brands to target fans and offer rewards.

We’re at a point where almost all of the world’s population is using mobile phones. But most of the world’s adults and teens don’t own a credit score. Vaya wants to help them get one, and also helps lenders target them for loans.

A startup that’s trying to expand the AdSense network so publishers have access to more ad inventory. As an advertiser, you’d be able to select from a variety of ad sizes and formats to maximize your campaigns.

The startup has developed a way to help employers manage their employee recruiting process and streamline subsequent onboarding. The platform allows organizations to put together a recruiter roster, create a template for their job description, and see who’s interested in the job.

A startup that helps retailers market to specific sections of their client base.

This company started as an internal tool to help small businesses manage their social media accounts, but has now launched its own social media app that helps small businesses manage their social media accounts. The startup says they have $250,000 in monthly active users.

A “disruptive” startup that uses artificial intelligence to teach robots how to sort and adopt new behaviors.

A platform designed for the non-technical employee to communicate with their managers.

A high-tech, custom-built vending machine for businesses. The company has been in the business of selling vending machines to businesses since 1923.

A platform for sellers of various goods to sell their goods with the right buyer and at the right time. The startup is currently in beta with one of its partners, which has an e-commerce app for a large US based retailer.

A chatbot that helps people decide which insurance plan to select.

A software platform for hospitals to manage patient data, allowing patients to store their medical records online, view them, share them with doctors and nurses, and access their records for wellness purposes.

A startup that wants to process the world’s raw materials into finished products. The startup currently has $8.5M in funding.

This startup is looking to help companies find and hire the best team, whether they’re a startup or an established enterprise. The platform is built around identifying and assembling the right people for the job, helping employers quickly find and hire the right employees.

A startup that helps you navigate insurance and legal contracts online, making the process easier and less expensive.

A startup that aims to allow users to add content and offers to their Facebook posts and other social media platforms.

A software platform meant to help power the next generation of digital signage.

This startup is creating a chatbot that will help users find the best deal on airline tickets, and provide recommendations based on personal preferences.

A company that wants to help small businesses find products that fit their needs.

A B2B startup working on a solution for managing the health and safety of people working in construction, building materials, and heavy industry.

A company that uses AI to connect patients to the most competent doctors in the country. The company wants to ensure that people are getting the best possible care from the most qualified doctors.

A startup that will let you see real-time data on the weather for the day in your city, in order to get ready faster.

A SaaS platform that helps companies manage their marketing efforts. The company helps businesses find and manage their marketing campaigns and deploy them at scale.

A platform for building mobile apps for existing e-commerce sites, including Shopify and Magento.

A B2B marketplace for food products.

A company that provides automated systems to finance investors in startups

Measuring the legal and ethical impact of social media.

A startup that helps merchants manage the process of returning items. This startup is run by CFOs for major retailers.

Helping safety regulators and emergency responders communicate with each other.

A startup that connects retailers to the right supplier by monitoring the daily cost of raw materials, and then helping the retailer to negotiate a better deal.

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A platform for users to share their software ideas and receive a small amount of money for doing so. The startup wants to help people get better at what they do.

A platform that allows users to rent out their cars by the hour for between $5 and $12.

A startup that wants to make it easier for nonprofits to build and manage a digital presence. It helps them get on digital platforms like Facebook, Google, and Instagram.

A company that helps small businesses make sense of their financial data, and offers a monthly subscription service to help them do so.

A platform for building your own smart contracts, powered by Ethereum and the ERC20 token standard.

A productivity startup that wants to make office Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel much more efficient. Available on Windows/Mac.

A data science startup that provides tools and services to detect and prevent fraud.

A startup for 1099 independent contractors to automatically file their taxes.

A tool for search and discovery of technical talent

A tool for managing digital assets

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

The startup wants to democratize the hiring process for college graduates, using Facebook to find job candidates.

The company wants to build a platform to help small businesses get paid faster. The company has raised $1 million from Lerer Ventures and other investors.

This is an app that helps companies process all their financial data for tax time. It allows companies to import data from one finance system to another.

A startup that creates a tool to track how well a company is using its logistics network.

A startup that helps businesses manage their supply chain by providing a database that connects them with manufacturers and suppliers. The startup has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.

A startup that wants to help you get the most out of your eyes and vision.

The startup is a sort of hybrid between a healthcare concierge and a personal shopper. It’s meant to help people who want help with the nuts and bolts of healthcare, like understanding their insurance or talking to doctors.

A student loan refinancing startup looking to help people consolidate their student loans by consolidating into a single loan from their bank

A platform for managing and tracking social media conversations. The company’s first product is a chatbot that lets people manage their social media conversations.

The company that makes the Tiny Guide app is building an app that will help the blind navigate the streets of cities. The app uses a combination of technology and human volunteer navigators to point out street names, traffic lights and other landmarks. It also is likely to be the first app to integrate with the Apple Watch.

A platform to help people order takeout or food from their favorite restaurants

A simple, flexible, and scalable platform to help companies manage operations and communicate with customers.

A web-based system for managing and scheduling your restaurant’s service time and labor.

A platform for e-commerce in Southeast Asia. Helps merchants sell online in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. The startup has raised $1 million and has 12 employees.

A mobile app that helps you find your closest available dentist or schedule an appointment.

The founders of this company started it to help people in the US and UK keep track of their medication. It’s currently available for iOS.

A machine-learning platform that helps companies find people qualified for their job.

A platform for developing and sharing learning and development programs and tools.

An effort to make the internet a more open and inclusive place for people of color, especially women. Sizabot is a virtual assistant, and the company built Sizabot to work with a wide range of languages to help people of color find better deals on services via chat.

An online publisher for local news, Newburgh Free Press has been around since 2014.

A platform designed to allow small businesses to have more control over their data, allowing them to better manage their brand, and better target their customers.

A tool for users to create and manage unique, customizable, animated GIFs by picking from a set of templates. The GIFs are then published to social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

A software company that creates a platform for companies to build and manage their own version of a “freelancer marketplace”.

A company that makes it easier for businesses to adopt and use technology. They’re currently working with 10 customers, including two large enterprise customers, and offer solutions in computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning.

A company that makes a high-end smartwatch, the Guess Connect, which it says is the first smartwatch that enables users to “live a more connected life.”

Idea: Tushycom is a subscription service that sends you a fresh toilet seat every month

A startup that offers one of the few ways to sell tickets to online conferences, and tickets to events in the past year, with a 2.8% take rate.

A joint project between an artist and an engineer, this startup is building an AI-powered bot that can help artists create music.

Idea: A startup for hand-made products. The startup is looking to disrupt the marketplace business by focusing on a niche of handmade goods. The startup claims it can make handmade goods more profitable for producers and more affordable for consumers.

A company that develops and sells a line of “smart windows”, windows that can monitor and adjust to changing weather and other environmental conditions to maximize comfort and energy efficiency.

A toolkit for educators that enables anyone to create their own virtual classroom.

A startup that helps users find a route to get from one place to another. The startup wants to help people find the shortest and cheapest route for their commute.

Data is the new oil, and the oil of the future is data. And with the rise of AI, the data is becoming more valuable. The startup is meant to help companies extract value from all that data.

A platform that helps find the best rooms at a hotel for a certain guest based on their profile. The company says it’s a “nudged recommendation” system using AI and machine learning.

A mobile app that helps colleges and universities stay connected and in touch with alumni.

An AI-based platform that helps businesses understand how they’re being paid, where they’re being paid, and which invoices are being paid first.

A startup that invests in podcasts and offers them hosting to help them grow.

The startup is in the process of building a network of personal chefs. Its current focus is on the restaurant industry.

A B2B company that helps global enterprises track and manage expenses and cash flows.

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A digital audio recorder and mixer that lets you record and mix music for your video project.

A startup that helps startups in the US save money when they need to send a large amount of product to consumers, which they say they’re currently doing by renting a truck to which they attach a giant cooler.

A startup that builds a resume-like software that helps people apply to jobs.

A tool for easily building and sharing custom styles for your Google Sheets. Available on Windows/Mac.

The company is currently in beta, and the founders say they’re focused on helping businesses with their HR needs.

A platform where users can create virtual islands for multiplayer gaming. It launched in 2014, with the founders saying that it’s on track to reach $1.5 million in annual revenue.

A platform that helps find the best rooms at a hotel for a certain guest based on their profile. The company says it’s a “nudged recommendation” system using AI and machine learning.

This startup aims to make it easier for companies to find candidates with the right technical skills to fill open roles. They use a proprietary database to find candidates with the right skills.

This is a service that allows customers to make payments via SMS. The startup has already worked with a few customers to start making payments via SMS

A platform for selling and buying things on your phone, similar to eBay and Craigslist, but with more personalization and a focus on local finds. In beta as of July, the company is not yet profitable, but has already signed up over 500 beta testers.

A startup that’s building a browser-based tool for anyone to create and manage their own virtual or online paperless bank account.

A startup for health care providers, retail clinics, and other types of clinics

A B2B company that helps organizations with purchasing power analyze their supply chains.

A recommendation engine that can help people find the best-of-breed products in a given category.

A business that empowers solar installers to do their own sales, giving them more control over their customers and their sales.

A new startup that aims to disrupt the real estate industry by allowing anyone to rent out spare rooms in their houses and apartments.

Ordering dry cleaning on the phone, meeting delivery times, charging for lost items, and tracking returns.

A startup that builds software for managing technology and data for colleges. The company claims to have over $6 million in monthly recurring revenue, and counts Dow Jones as one of its customers.

A tool for managing your own collection of audio and video interviews, which are then made available to your clients.

A “smart security system” that can detect intruders by taking a scan of their faces.

A web-based platform that offers customized reports and analytics for projects that are funded or in progress.

A real estate investment platform that claims it will help reduce real estate agent commissions by up to 80%.

a way to feed customers in a restaurant or other establishment. The startup is looking to build on their model in Asia, and is currently in talks with investors.

A content management system for travel websites, allowing them to sell content to companies that they can’t sell to directly. The startup also offers a tool for managing content on the web for travel companies.

A platform for businesses to pitch their services to event organizers, while also making it easier to manage them.

A startup that wants to solve the problem of credit card fraud by using a smartphone to scan a QR code on a payment. The startup’s $10 app will then send a text to the cardholder, asking them to confirm the payment before it’s completed. The startup says that within the next 12 months it will have 100,000 users.

A tool for learning how to type at a faster rate, with a focus on anti-fatigue and anti-stress.

A tool for finding student housing.

A platform that brings businesses together with other companies in similar industries for collaboration and support.

A startup that finds and shares parking garage spots for around $10 per month. It’s fairly basic and focused on downtown San Francisco.

A system for keeping track of inventory and estimating future sales

A software platform for the digital health and wellness market. The startup is focused on helping people manage their health and wellness through a mobile app and an accompanying digital dashboard.

A platform that allows businesses to build and launch subscription services on the web. It’s a platform that makes it easier to build businesses that benefit from recurring revenue.

A “smart” outdoor lighting system that works with an app to automatically turn on and off when people walk into the room. The product is currently in a limited release.

A novel way to send money internationally using the blockchain.

The company is building an online tool to help businesses automate payroll and human resources, with features like time tracking and flexible pay.

A startup that helps companies manage their inventory across multiple warehouses and retail locations The company says they have $82,000 in monthly recurring revenue with 60% gross margins

A blockchain startup that’s building a way to store and share intellectual property using smart contracts

A SaaS HR software company that helps businesses like hotels and restaurants manage their staff, find new hires, and end-of-employment benefits. The company had its first round of funding in June.

A platform that enables people to rent out their homes to visitors. They’re building a platform that will let people rent out their homes to strangers or friends for short-term stays, and take care of the expenses for guests.

The startup is building a platform for people who want to use the power of machine learning to build apps that can help manage their finances, like stock picking and budgeting.

A company that wants to use artificial intelligence to help people grow their Instagram presence.

A startup that allows people to schedule or “book” housing for future events. The startup lets users find available apartments, book them, and pay for them ahead of time.

This is an AI-powered service for finding the cheapest flights online. The startup currently boasts over 1 million users, and has built a complex machine learning model that it says can find you the cheapest flights.

A startup that allows users to connect with the media library of their favorite publications, and instantly download the latest issue of their favorite magazine on their phone.

Known Medicine is working on putting a computer chip in your tumor that can sense whether or not the tumor is responding to treatment. The startup wants to use the chip to identify patients who need more aggressive treatment, which would help improve survival rates for the cancer.

An online nursery school for babies 0-12 months old, which offers classes in arts and crafts, cooking, and using a computer.

A platform that lets companies manage the telecommuting employees, making it easier to get them back to the office.

This startup is working on a way to power electric cars with solar energy.

This startup is building a system to help engineers understand the best ways to program to particular chips.

This mobile app enables you to get your car washed at a time that works for you

A startup that curates the best content from across the web and allows users to create their own “digital scrapbook”

A platform for promoting and connecting “disruptive” businesses within a region.

A tool for building and managing social networks, with plans to add in things like a calendar, task management, document sharing, etc. through a new collaboration platform.

A “SaaS-based accounting and finance tool for SMBs”. The company offers integrated accounting, payroll, accounts receivable and payable, bank account linking, invoice creation, and expense tracking through its cloud product.

A software & hardware startup that makes a $100 credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner

A startup, which has raised over $1 million, that helps customers go through the process of hiring a virtual assistant. It highlights the process in a series of animated videos.

A startup that helps businesses manage their supply chain by providing a database that connects them with manufacturers and suppliers. The startup has raised $1.8 million in seed funding.

An API for building and maintaining websites, with tools for building and managing the code.

A file sharing and collaboration tool for veterinarians, with a focus on recording and sharing patient data. They’ve already secured $3.2 million in funding.

A handheld scanner that simplifies the process of getting restaurant inspections.

A dating app focused on people who want to date people with the same lifestyle as them, but don’t want to date someone who’s too far out of their comfort zone.

A platform that brings together data from big data analytics, big data visualization and big data querying, allowing companies to gain insights from their data in a unique way.

A startup that helps companies with the creation and maintenance of a “Smart Home”. The company’s services can help set up a smart home, or train an existing one on how to be smart.

A startup that helps startups and small businesses create their own API for managing their own APIs.

Outsmart is building a data communication network for businesses to monitor and control their communication resources. They currently have $12,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

A “smart” home that uses your smartphone to monitor your energy usage, giving you a report on how much heat you’re putting out and how much your bill is going to be

A platform that helps recruiters manage their talent pipeline and hire new employees

A software company that helps small businesses run their inventory, from stocking to payment processing. The startup wants to make the process of running a retail store “easier, faster, and cheaper”.

A company whose goal is to bring better health to all people, leveraging emerging technologies to help people get more out of their health care.

A payment startup that offers a money transfer service for small and medium-sized businesses. The company has a network of partners that cover 90% of all businesses.

A tech company that creates a platform for companies to market their apps and services, in a way that is more likely to catch the attention of consumers.

This startup is building a platform for robotic process automation and intelligent automation of business processes.

A platform for managing your entire spend, tracking your bills, managing your expenses across different payment systems, managing your accounts, and making it easy to compare everything against each other.

A chatbot for people who have been recently released from prison. The startup’s founders say that over 25% of the US prison population is in prison for drug-related offenses, and that nearly 70% of those incarcerated are people of color.

This startup offers business meetings in a virtual conference room, without the hassle of meeting in person. The company is based in Philadelphia but has users in more than 30 cities.

A DIY kit that lets users measure and diagnose DIY electrical problems.

A startup that provides a service for companies to help them figure out which employees are likely to leave the company

A digital media studio that helps brands create top-quality videos by combining story-telling and media technology. The startup is looking to create a platform that is easy for people to use, allowing for professional-level video production at a minimal cost.

A platform for users to buy cryptocurrencies in exchange for cryptocurrencies. Users can then convert their coins to other coins or cash out.

A startup that provides insight into how people use different apps and services, with the goal of helping businesses engage with their customers.

A platform that allows Mexico-based companies to sell products and services to the US.

A startup that makes it easy to pay for goods at brick-and-mortar stores via mobile phone

A tool that helps make it easier to keep track of your health, financial and work habits.

A new take on social media for Millennials: streamlining the process of reporting content that is offensive, abusive, or otherwise violates your community standards.

A tool that allows people to create their own 3D models of objects and designs and have them printed on a 3D printer.

A healthcare platform that connects patients with health care providers to find out what and how much they can afford.

A startup that helps hospitals create secure software for their staff to access the medical records of patients. The startup has already partnered with hospitals in the U.S. and India.

A series of 3D filters for the Oculus Rift

Idea: A peer-to-peer lending marketplace The startup offers an alternative to traditional banks, which the founders say offer high interest rates, but often have hidden fees

A platform that helps brands and agencies publish content on Instagram. The app lets brands create e-books, videos, interviews and more.

A platform for restaurants to streamline their entire food supply chain from farming to delivery. They’re a bit like a cross between a restaurant registry, a restaurant marketplace, and a logistics warehouse.

A student loan consolidation tool.

A company that wants to make it easier for people to find good doctors, and to provide them with better tools.

A software company that helps companies in the B2B space increase the percentage of sales that come from repeat and referral customers.

A startup for online courses to teach skills like coding, design, and writing.

Idea: A startup for “solar powered cars”. The startup wants to build a rooftop solar system that generates energy for your car, allowing the car to run on solar power.

A B2B startup that aims to solve the problem of processing and logging of data for companies looking to start up a new retail bank. The company says it’s already working with a few banks on prototypes.

A platform for those looking to get a loan for their business.

This startup is building an open source platform for young people to learn to code. The startup is based in Mountain View, California.

A startup that enables the design of 3D printed prosthetics. The company wants to provide 3D printing for prosthetics as a service, by offering it as a service, and partnering with 3D printing machines to print them.

A startup helping real estate agents sell homes by providing a marketplace for their clients to find a buyer.

A “new kind of community management” for restaurants.

Centrify Corporate Services is a cloud-based managed services provider that helps enterprises bring their on-premises Microsoft-based services into the cloud.

A "social media platform for people who already have social media accounts", with the goal of helping people create better profiles on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. In 2015, the startup raised a seed round from YC.

We’re used to going to a retail store and buying a product from a single brand. The startup wants to make it easier to find the product that’s right for you by making a detailed product finder in a new kind of retail store.

A toolset that helps small businesses receive updates from the government and other stakeholders in an organized and timely fashion.

A platform that helps companies make more informed hiring decisions by tracking candidates’ social media activities.

A shortcut to finding new restaurants in a given city

Business software that helps with a company’s tax planning.

Directs users to the best spot in the subway. The startup wants to make traveling more efficient by letting people tell you where to get off.

This startup is building a “digital kitchen” that enables chefs to make and review recipes on the fly.

The startup created a way for users to give masseurs and therapists feedback about their performance.

A startup that helps connect farmers with restaurants and retailers, allowing them to order food on a real-time basis.

A startup that helps companies create quick spreadsheets for their different departments

In addition to everything on this list, there were also a handful of other companies that were pitched that I didn’t write about.

The company is building a tool for businesses to automate their customer feedback processes.

A startup that helps the visually impaired use their phone to read text. It’s a text-to-speech app that uses synthetic speech and does not require a camera.

This startup is building a website to help people find different rental cars based on their needs.

A startup building a software platform that helps financial institutions and other companies find the right credit analyst for their loan products.

A “family-friendly” social network for college students.

A global payments platform that connects businesses to their local community.

A way for investors to track the progress of new startups.

Say Hello is a video messaging app for the deaf community in the US. The company is looking to expand internationally, and has expanded to Brazil and Germany.

A platform that connects you to a network of freelance designers and developers to create a product for you. The company also works with your team to provide you with a product roadmap and a recommended development timeline.

A Chinese-American startup that’s building an app that makes it easier to pay for things online. The app is in private beta and is already available in Shanghai, Shanghai and other parts of China.

An automated, artificial intelligence-powered tool for pricing and managing the supply chain of online retailers.

One of the leaders in the IoT market, Flow creates a large range of connected devices for homes and businesses that automate things like lighting and security.

A real estate data platform that lets people sell and buy homes directly with one another.

A platform that helps users take on the role of an “unbiased” investor, enabling them to take a financial stake in the stocks they’re researching.

This startup is building a “self-driving” robotic delivery system that drives around a city and drops off packages at people’s houses

A combination of a private messaging app and a dating app, allowing users to send and receive text messages from both their phones and an app.

A messaging app for the elderly that aims to help them communicate with their children

A simple way to send money to family and friends in India

A process control startup that enables companies to monitor and control processes that don’t have sensors. It’s a more accurate way of gauging process performance than the traditional approach of sending a technician to the site.

This startup makes a credit card without annual fees or a credit limit. Customers can pay as much or as little as they want each month and never be charged interest or fees.

A B2B platform for companies to connect their business and HR systems.

A platform that aims to make it easier to find and hire local talent, connecting employers with job seekers.

A web app that brings a person’s social media accounts together into a single interface, for use with Slack or email.

A company that helps retailers grow their online sales by selling them on Amazon.com. The startup has $2.5 million in funding.

This is a startup that combines the likes of Stripe, PayPal and Venmo in one platform. It’s a payment processing platform for merchants in the US.

A chatbot that’s meant to help people with chronic and mental health issues, like anxiety and depression, get access to medical professionals. The bot is a project of the nonprofit Mental Health America.

A small business accounting software that offers a free trial, then bumps up prices based on number of users.

A platform for “radical self-expression” for people with disabilities.

An online platform to aid in online dating, with members paying to boost their profile and get access to special features. The startup says it’s already got over 1,000 users and is growing at about 40 percent month.

A startup trying to make a “financial assistant” for parents that helps monitor spending and teach them financial responsibility.

A “marketplace for influencers” that helps brands find influencers to partner with

A platform for employers to allow employees to make contributions to employee stock ownership plans (ESOP)

A joint venture between Taiwanese and Malaysian companies building a logistics platform for small and medium enterprises. The startup wants to be the Amazon of Chinese logistics companies.

This startup is building a storage system for virtual reality developers that allows them to create large-scale worlds that interact with each other and with users.

A startup for shoppers to compare prices on things like home insurance and auto loans. Borrow lets people take a credit card number and borrow money against it, so you get the money you need and pay it back with the money you make.

Designing and building a new way for people to connect over virtual reality.

A startup that wants to make it easy for your phone to pay with your location, so you don’t have to wait for your card’s PIN to be entered.

A way to allow people to easily share their gym photos with friends and family.

A startup that builds software for managing technology and data for colleges. The company claims to have over $6 million in monthly recurring revenue, and counts Dow Jones as one of its customers.

A company that makes a “super-good” video conferencing platform.

A medical records app that lets patients access their medical records from their phone. The startup has raised $2 million in seed funding.

A startup for renewable energy that allows users to create custom energy portfolios.

Employers can use this to provide employees with information about their benefits and wellness.

A company developing a decentralized platform for the $2.2 trillion global real estate industry.

A way to help consumers create a custom playlist.

A startup that provides local, food-based restaurant recommendations based on your location. It’s the product of a recent startup accelerator.

Host a video conference with as few as three people. The startup is already working with over 35 customers, and plans to add 1,000 more by year end.

A company that helps you track, manage, and pay for your cable and internet bill.

An API marketplace for scheduling and booking workers. It’s an API-driven marketplace for arranging for human labor.

A tool for HR that tracks a person’s job performance and evaluates their manager's actions.

The following startups were selected because of their unique and innovative approaches to building businesses.

A software company that powers the world’s largest video sharing platform. The startup helps users watch videos on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and others. It has over 2 billion daily active users.

A startup looking to create an AI that helps companies manage their social media accounts.

This company is making it easier for people to create a cloud-based office that automatically syncs with their phone, computer, and other devices.

A startup for online tax preparation, with a focus on preparing businesses and those with complicated tax situations.

A startup that helps people get their kids into top schools. The startup connects students with their dream colleges and helps guide them through each step of the application process.

A startup that makes a smart home product called the “Tilt,” a hub that can connect to other smart home devices, such as the Nest thermostat, to make them work together to save energy and set schedules.

A company that offers a collaboration tool for salespeople to share sales strategies, sales pipeline, and sales targets.

A startup that brings together all of the different tools that companies use for HR across their organization.

A blockchain-based insurer that wants to give people a way to “secure financial services” and help them “build better credit and financial lives.”

A startup that uses real-time video analytics to help law enforcement track criminal activity.

A startup that helps make it easy for SaaS companies to combine multiple subscription services from other companies into a single account.

A “social network for artists” which lets them share work, view work people are creating, and follow other artists.

The company is creating a digital platform for over 3,000 artists and makers to connect to potential buyers.

A personal care brand that’s starting to expand into other categories, including skincare, makeup, and haircare.

A platform for making it easier for people to integrate their health and fitness data into their daily lives. The startup is currently trying to get the FDA on its side to call its technology a medical device.

An online service that connects you with a private chef to cook you a meal, or to have one cook for you.

A startup that wants to bring digital design tools for clothing to the masses. Clothe is a service that helps customers create a unique design for a single item of clothing using a photo, or from a library of templates. Users can design items like dresses for $19, or can also sell items they’ve designed on Clothe. The startup says they’re targeting the women’s fashion industry, which is worth $500 billion in the US alone.

A platform for fashion brands to manage their products, with a lean startup that seeks to build a marketplace where brands can sell their products directly to consumers.

A app that helps you read and watch long-form content without it taking over your day.

A global mobile payment platform that offers 2% cashback on all of your purchases.

An online marketplace for independent businesses to sell their products to consumers. The startup charges a monthly membership fee, but it offers a monthly bonus for businesses that sell a certain amount of products without going over a certain monthly threshold.

This startup is a “personal budgeting solution” for freelancers. The idea is to make it easier to see how much money you’ve made and how much you’ve spent over the course of your career and to make it easier to plan spending.

A crowdsourced shopping website for Indian customers.

Idea: A startup that is building a platform to sell hot sandwiches to restaurants They say they have 7x ROI on customer acquisition, and are growing 10% week-over-week

An advertising company that provides a platform for publishers, brands and non-profits to advertise on social media platforms.

A platform that connects local shops with brands looking for wholesale deals through a one-stop shop.

A tool that allows local contractors to create a profile of their work, and then, when a project is ready to be bid, the contractor can upload their work and get an instant quote from the bidders. The company charges $25 per month for the service, and the company is currently in private beta.

A digital tool that generates a power point slide deck from a PowerPoint file

An online education platform that provides live classes taught by experts.

A startup that allows users to convert their money into cash, or vice versa, in an instant

A toolkit to help the ad industry identify ads that convert to sales or keep consumers engaged.

A startup working with AAA automobile associations to give car owners access to in-home maintenance, repair, and tracking services.

A startup that provides a service to companies to help them comply with the EU GDPR

A tool helping people make an audio track of their life, from a single instrument, so they can share that with their friends and family.

Idea is an interface to create and edit content for any electronic device that is powered by iOS or Android.

Idea: A tool to help people who don’t have a lot of money to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

A premium version for 100,000 users will get faster access, no ads, and other benefits.

A platform that allows co-working spaces to create “pay one month and share the following month” types of agreements without having to hire an intermediary.

A project to help health care professionals gain experience with industry standard health IT tools.

A tool that lets you build a phone number from a website

A data analysis tool for product managers and marketers, helping them to better understand what their customers are doing on their app.

A digital payments platform for the restaurant industry, building tools to help restaurants manage cash flow and optimize sales.

An online platform for college students to get loan options from multiple lenders, and compare rates and terms.

A startup that provides low-cost loans to low-income Americans.

A software company that helps companies in the B2B space reduce errors by identifying the real-life errors that occur in their customer service interactions.

A startup that’s trying to solve the problem of companies not having a marketing platform that’s not just search engine optimized.

A company that helps medical professionals in the developing world identify and manage their patients’ symptoms with a mobile app.

A platform for small business buying and selling services, which it says is more cost-effective than going through agents.

A software startup that helps financial professionals create report dashboards for executives to make better decisions.

A B2B company that builds a platform for sales departments to build sales forecast models and forecast dashboards with the help of AI.

A startup that helps make it easy for SaaS companies to combine multiple subscription services from other companies into a single account.

A company that connects people with remote work opportunities, like telecommuting and remote sales jobs.

An online service for companies that allows them to connect their products to third-party markets. The company’s goal is to allow companies to sell their products in other countries, and also to help them better understand demand.

A startup that helps users publish photos and videos directly to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

A startup building a program to help people readjust to work after being out of it for a few days

It’s a brand new concept in the world of advertising, using the “perks” of a travel-based credit card to show you ads you’d be interested in on a flight.

A company that sells ‘smart’ access cards for venues/events, allowing guests to swipe their cards, turn on an app, and receive push notifications of things like door status and food and drink orders.

LarxBit is an online platform for buying and selling used cars. It aims to become a global used car sharing service, like Zipcar or Car2Go. The platform monitors cars on public roads, then transfers them to its users.

Placement is a platform that allows people to hire home care workers by assessing their needs and then matching them with a professional who can help. Placement also allows users to manage their care-giver’s pay, schedule and benefits.

A map showing what’s open for dinner and drinks.

A wellness concierge service for wellness and fitness enthusiasts.

A startup that wants to pair people up with mentors.

Allows users to send an eBay-style message (“buy it now”) to other users who are already selling the same item.

There are over 2,000 cryptocurrencies. A finance startup called CreditChain aims to build a cryptocurrency that is more accessible to the average consumer. The company is seeking to build out a “credit blockchain” that allows banks to create and distribute digital and physical products, like insurance policies, to consumers in minutes.

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

A startup that provides software to help people get their business off the ground

A startup that wants to build a single platform to manage all of your data on all of your devices.

A virtual reality toolkit for creative and professional video editors on Mac and PC. Studio is a video editing tool for desktop and mobile. It’s aimed at prosumers and professionals alike, and is developed by a team that’s been working on it for the past 5 years.

A startup that wants to help retailers work more efficiently and make it easier for customers to browse products online.

A smart web platform that connects employers and employees, wherin employers can set up their own employee referral program. The startup plans to offer a suite of services including salary surveys, employee referral programs, employee reviews, and career mapping.

A solution that provides districts and schools with data on academic performance, attendance, and facilities.

Online platform that helps small businesses access business loans and credit cards from local banks. The startup has raised $2 million from a range of investors.

A mobile app that helps individual teachers track and manage their students. The company is headquartered in New York and has over $5 million in funding.

In 2017, the U.S. Postal Service lost $65 billion, according to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General. The USPS lost $1.8 billion in FY 2016, and $2.8 billion in FY 2015. That is a drop of $3.4 billion from the $1.9 billion that they lost in FY 2014.

This is a platform for businesses that produce food and drink to manage their inventory. The startup aims to make life easier for food producers, food retailers, and restaurants.

A startup that helps employees stalk their managers without having to leave the office.

A consumer credit score for the US that scores potential customers on their creditworthiness.

A new way of doing customer service that’s designed to be more personal and efficient than the call center model.

A North American-based women’s health company looking to expand globally, with a focus on finding a way to provide women with a safe and easy way to have regular checkups.

They are building a marketplace based on the idea of peer to peer lending, but aimed at small property loans (smaller than $5,000), and aimed at women.

A startup that lets people and companies share their work in one platform, that they can then sell to brands.

A company that offers a platform for converting documents into digital formats and websites.

This is an app that tells you which room in your home you spend the most time in, and how that time compares to the time you spend at work, with friends, etc.

An online publisher for local news, Newburgh Free Press has been around since 2014.

A startup that’s making it easier for users to supercharge their mobile devices by pairing them with high-performance wireless chargers. Its 10K program is now open for sign-ups.

A tool to help people in the healthcare industry collaboratively create and edit their healthcare records in a secure, HIPAA-compliant way.

Thoughtful home services that provide concierge services, cleaning, and other household issues. The company has $10 million in funding from investors including Michael Moritz.

A collaboration between the MIT bionics lab and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology that means that patients can be fitted with robotic prosthetics.

A credit card for students to get the best interest rate possible

This SaaS business allows users to grow their own tomatoes in a hydroponic system.

A software company that helps retail clients to manage their supply chains, by tracking and understanding their inventory, creating supply plans and offering predictive analytics to route the right product to the right person at the right time. The startup says it can help a retailer cut costs by 25%.

The startup is looking to “help people make the switch from their personal funds to a workplace 401(k) retirement plan”, by allowing employers to build automated 401(k) plans for their employees, and giving employees the ability to move their 401(k) funds to their own bank accounts.

A startup that wants to get more people signing up for health insurance through a simpler, more intuitive process.

Big Data is important, and getting bigger. Tachyon is working to make Big Data easier to understand so people can take advantage of it to make better decisions.

A web and mobile app to help people sort, organize, and track their belongings.

A researcher of AI technologies.

A startup that’s building a platform to connect users with affordable health insurance products in India.

A tool that helps businesses with accounting, payroll, and HR tasks, now available in the UK.

A SaaS platform that allows anyone to create, publish and promote content in a simple and effective manner. Users can publish their content, then share it across social media, email and messaging services.

A company that makes 3D printed parts for industrial machinery, including industrial robots.

A startup that uses an IoT platform to automatically manage the delivery of goods in the same way that Amazon and Uber do. Founded in early 2019, they’re currently in talks with logistics companies in the US, Canada and Mexico.

A startup that provides mobile phone repair for $5, and a service in which customers can have their phones fixed by their friends.

An AI that supports AI development, with a product aimed at developers to make building “AI-first” apps easier.

A startup that provides users with all the aspects of the Netflix experience, except the selection of the show, which automatically adapts to the viewer.

A more personal way to pay back student loans. The startup helps students manage their debt by putting on an income-based repayment plan. It’s a platform for students to create a customized plan and manage their debt.

A startup that wants to bring the experience of a video game to investing, where users can earn real money as they invest in various stocks and bonds.

A company that, like Thumbtack, allows people to find contractors and service providers, then allows them to rate them and find the best match.

A startup that wants to connect buyers with people who have what they need, from spare parts to rare books.

A mobile app that helps individual teachers track and manage their students. The company is headquartered in New York and has over $5 million in funding.

A startup that helps customers rent out their places on Airbnb. The startup has already partnered with 50 properties in New York and San Francisco, and is looking to expand in other markets as well.

A Y Combinator alum, Goodbot is a personal concierge service that helps people find the best places to go out.

A startup that aims to solve the problem of application security, which is “currently one of the most difficult and costly problems to solve for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses).”

Niche dating site for people who are looking for a partner in the U.S. but don’t have access to a lot of the basic services (like Facebook, email, and photo sharing.)

A personal trainer that uses video to help users correct bad habits.

A platform that lets publishers create and sell custom content based on their subscribers’ interests.

One of the top-performing startups in YC Winter 2016,

Canvas is a new type of digital canvas for creating digital objects. Users can create a design or pattern using images and use it as a template for an object. It has four different types of canvas with different features, and the startup says it will be releasing another in the future.

A startup that is working on a platform that will allow users to create a custom hashtag

The startup has a novel approach to tackling the problem of a lack of transparency in the oil industry. It’s a tool that allows users to track the source of their oil, and take it from there.

A company that takes care of your travel insurance while you’re on the road, getting you quotes from insurance companies for you.

A startup that connects users with local services. The company claims to organize services by proximity, and to have a network of over 20,000 service providers.

A company that makes software that helps people find lost items. They’re also developing a wearable device that will help people find their lost items.

A platform for all kinds of digital content, including video, audio, and images. It’s a content delivery network (CDN) built on a blockchain.

This is a SMS service that’s used to hire on-demand delivery drivers. The startup is working to make payments and routing as seamless as possible.

A company that wants to build a system that predicts the future of cities as they grow and change.

A software company that uses AI to predict your monthly credit card payments, based on your current spending.

A mobile app that connects users to the best local organic food, and helps them pay for it with their credit card

A software company that makes it easier for crowdfunding campaigns to get verified by the SEC.

A company that helps teams improve their efficiency and communication, and a company that helps teams improve their efficiency and communication, and a company that helps teams improve their efficiency and communication.

A platform company that specializes in predictive maintenance and predictive servicing. They’ll tell you how long your car will last, based on the data and condition of your car.

A platform for visualizing and managing business data in a way that helps businesses be more efficient.

A platform that allows teams to collaborate on their marketing and sales tasks. The platform allows teams to move through the sales cycle, from evaluating opportunities to closing. The company says it has over 1,000 customers and is on track to generate over $1.5 million in revenue in 2019.

A visual platform that helps organizations like colleges and hospitals monitor and take action against sexual harassment.

A financial service company that helps people get their retirement savings straightened out.

A micro-purchase tool for students to pay a particular school a specific amount, and also a tool for teachers to track the progress of a group of students. The startup was founded in July.

An API for robots in factories to help them run more efficiently, and to more precisely do their tasks

A way to give consumers a decentralized payment system that they can use on all their favorite mobile apps. The startup wants to replace the existing centralized payment system for mobile payments with a more decentralized system.

A platform that helps companies manage, track and monetize their content. They have three enterprise customers on board, including T-Mobile and a law firm.

A startup that helps companies build a marketplace for their app’s users A “Reddit for apps”, if you will

People who are moving can now hire a moving company with a phone call.

A company that’s building a software-as-a-service platform for managing and optimizing the performance of IT infrastructure.

This is an API for companies’ internal data. The company has over 50 employees.

A startup to help people find gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-friendly options at restaurants.

A startup that provides a concierge service to help people who are traveling to figure out where to eat and what to do

The company’s purpose is to help finance businesses manage their payrolls. They’ve already signed up over 17,000 companies across the US.

A startup that makes a new version of the classic game thisisyourhome.com, an interactive game where players search for clues to win points and solve the mystery behind a burglar.

A company that provides people with the ability to create and manage a digital resume and a directory of contacts and others who are interested in hiring them.

A platform that helps smaller businesses collaborate with their suppliers, allowing them to check out the status of a product or service before it’s shipped and even see what the supplier looks like.

A tool that allows developers to build their own tools that can be used by other people.

A startup building a self-driving platform for agricultural applications, from crop and animal management to robot delivery of goods.

A startup building a system that allows school districts to manage their student’s summer break. The system would integrate with school districts’ existing timekeeping systems and calendars, so that students can be allotted days off throughout the summer to spend with their families or with internships or jobs.

An online tool that allows you to compare the cost of your hardware, software, cloud, and services across all your use cases, enabling you to make the best business decision for your needs.

A company that helps people get the most out of their retirement accounts, with a focus on robo-advice.

The startup is developing a third-party platform for business leaders to discuss, coordinate and engage with “data-driven” teams in the same way regular employees do. The goal is to help businesses “shape the future”.

A community where aspiring politicians can get advice from other politicians, and help each other get elected.

A digital platform to help with bank-to-bank money transfers.

A startup that helps small business owners manage and grow their business across the internet by allowing them to create a virtual storefront, and tap into the expertise of other entrepreneurs.

A startup that aims to help brands create a "more human" social media presence.

A library of over 1,700 video lectures for developers on the entire set of AWS services.

A platform that uses machine learning to connect engineers and product development teams and create a product that fits the needs of their respective teams.

A platform for freelance designers to get paid for their designs. Designers can create a portfolio and sell projects via the platform, which is free for the first 3 projects.

A startup that helps local businesses communicate with their customers by providing a shared inbox and contact list. A startup for small businesses that wants to bring in new customers.

A startup to help people build their own personal brands and manage their online communities

A series of 3D filters for the Oculus Rift

A place where you can find courses in the US on everything from wine to yoga to machine learning.

A system that helps banks and credit unions move money to individual accounts.

A security startup with a free app that lets users report any mobile phone that isn’t secure.

A video-sharing app that’s just as good as YouTube.

A 3-D printed toy that teaches kids about math and science.

Aquent is building a device which allows people to dehydrate fruits and vegetables, and then reconstitute them into the original form.

A tool for various health-related startups. The startup helps startups on the cusp of launching gather advice from experts in the field. It charges a small fee starting at $99, but founder Alex Goodyear says it’s worth it for the experience.

A company that combines the power of “social” and “personal finance” apps to help people manage all their accounts.

A platform that will make it easier for businesses to hire freelance designers, web developers, and more.

A startup that helps companies use their database as part of their marketing with a service that allows companies to send internal mail with customer data via a marketing platform.

A startup that helps small businesses get customers and customers get to know and trust their small business.

A startup that provides insights on the health of a company’s workforce, ranging from work-related stress to nutrition and sleep, and converting them into targeted interventions like health coaching, education, and more.

This is a messaging platform that works with Slack and Google Apps so you can talk about deadlines and collaboration from any device. The startup says it has already helped over 250 companies and is looking to scale.

If kids are being sent to school by themselves, they may do poorly if they’re already scared of new situations. To help kids transition, the startup will send them to a therapist to help them “develop a calming presence” that they can use throughout their school life.

A virtual concierge that offers transportation, meals, and gifts for you or your team.

A software-as-a-service platform that allows merchants to have a fully functional self-service checkout lane via a webpage.

Idea: A startup that’s building a tool that lets you share your high school student’s grades and progress with colleges

A tool for helping people get a feel for the cost and saving potential of solar panels.

A mobile app that connects users to the best local organic food, and helps them pay for it with their credit card

A startup that installs a vending machine for various things (IE: A vending machine that sells a 3-month supply of dental floss for $10)

A tool for finding and keeping up with the most useful and relevant content on the web. Envato’s editor-in-chief, Jellyvision, says it’s another tool for publishers to find and share the best content in a very crowded space. The startup is funded by the venture capital firm Ycombinator and aims to be a one-stop-shop for tools, content and plugins.

A startup building an AI-driven virtual assistant that aims to make hiring and firing employees just as easy as firing a drone.

A startup that allows businesses to measure their online revenue to help them make better decisions about marketing and pricing.

A startup that wants to be the middleman between the growing number of small-scale contractors and the big-contractor industry

Startup that wants to disrupt the traditional, outdated, and inefficient process for hiring workers for manufacturing. It allows manufacturers to hire workers from a pool of applicants, and set terms and conditions.

A function that can be applied to any type of email. The goal is to be able to remove and manage spam and reduce email volume.

A platform that helps small businesses easily manage all their accounts, from accounting to taxes. The company, which is bootstrapped, has been in business for three years, and has a team of eight in Bengaluru.

A startup that provides software to help eCommerce store owners who are trying to grow their business

A mobile application to help parents monitor their children’s fitness and health, with a fitness tracker and mobile coach.

An AI powered work scheduling app for HR managers, telling them who is available and what their availability is like.

A startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to become customers in an ecosystem that includes a variety of third-party providers, from law firms to accountants to business advice.

This is a startup that wants to use the Internet of Things to create a more intimate relationship between a person and their home.

A “smart” contact lens that tracks glucose levels in real time, sending alerts to users’ smartphones. It’s currently in the clinical trial phase, but the founders are working on a commercial version that will be released in 2020.

Watermark uses a blockchain to create a digital workbook that can be shared with others and edited, allowing them to collaborate. It’s a solution for the “shared task” problem, where work has to be done in common but can’t be shared.

A real estate tech company that automates the process of entering and compiling data for a house’s sale. They’ve raised more than $500,000 in seed funding.

• "Future Billionaires" (US edition), Forbes, November 30, 2013

A payment system for your subscription to a streaming service. They charge the same amount every month but are reimbursed for specific services based on how much content you watch.

This startup is building a tool for retailers to increase the speed of their online inventory management and better manage product availability.

A messaging app for the elderly that aims to help them communicate with their children

An API wrapper for the search engine DuckDuckGo.

Offers a platform that helps companies manage their subscriptions, subscriptions to retail products, and subscriptions to music and videos.

A tool for managing employee stock options.

A technology that allows companies to drive better pricing for their customers, and thus increase their revenue.

A startup that is building a service for small businesses that helps them manage their finances, inventory, and sales. It’s been in beta for two months and is nearing launch.

Founded by two former Googlers in 2012, Giphy is a video search engine that helps users find content to animate GIFs from online videos.

A company that makes it easier for people to translate and write content in their native language, whether it’s in the form of a blog post or an email.

A few years after launching in NY, the startup has expanded to three conference markets.

A startup that sells a service that lets you hire a photographer to take photos of you and your friends

A web-based platform that helps people manage their video production services and services providers in an online marketplace

A startup for short-term rentals of commercial space. The company is currently working with a number of US cities and is in talks with several others.

A startup that lends out the tools necessary to set up a basic office at home, whether it’s for a small team, an individual freelancer, or even a single room. The startup has a platform for users to manage and share their work books, collaborate with other team members, and track team progress.

An AI-powered assistant that can help you find the best nearby restaurants that serve food you like.

A digital product for doctors to simplify the process of recording and sharing their medical files and to make it easier for patients to request copies of their medical records.

A startup that aims to help people track their food intake and share it with others. The app turns the act of eating into a game, where you can play with friends or compete with other people, as well as track your food intake.

A desktop-based email client for journalists, connecting to their Gmail accounts, and using the same tools as their editors.

We live in the age of the multi-tasking app. But it turns out that multi-tasking is a bummer, and it definitely leads to a stack of unfinished work items. SoluMe solves the problem by allowing you to save all of your tasks in one place, and then prioritize them in one place.

Slack-like platform for recruiting, where companies can see the resumes, skills, and preferences of a job-seeker’s network and the recruiter can provide feedback.

A platform for restaurants to streamline their entire food supply chain from farming to delivery. They’re a bit like a cross between a restaurant registry, a restaurant marketplace, and a logistics warehouse.

A web-based tool to help teams in the non-profit space get together, brainstorm and share ideas.

A new set of APIs for apps that want to connect to home automation products.

A platform for booking a ride-share with Uber or Lyft. It is a competitor to UberRush, a company founded by former Uber and Lyft employees that allows ridesharing users to book a ride from a driver without a credit card.

This startup is building a platform that allows people to create custom short-form videos, where viewers can cosplay their favorite video game characters.

A tool for small-business owners interested in selling their products on Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon, which allows companies to outsource product fulfillment and marketing to Amazon.

A tool for talent acquisition, actively seeking to disrupt the $1.25 billion recruitment industry.

Another startup that wants to simplify life for the average Indian.

A startup for managing expenses for students.

A platform that uses machine learning to create customizable Google authentication for access to services, using the logins of all your Google accounts.

A platform that helps developers build apps that integrate with a company’s internal software, like CRM or HR.

A startup that wants to empower employees to make their own technology decisions, rather than giving them a limited set of options.

A single-page application framework that aims to let developers build highly-optimized mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Modernizr is used by over 100,000 developers.

A startup that provides an online toolkit for building ecommerce storefronts.

A “quantified self” app for fitness enthusiasts to track their workouts and use the data to improve their habits

A tool that helps users compare and rate the quality of services from a wide range of vendors.

A company that helps online businesses build their own email marketing tool, offering a free suite of tools, including a software-as-a-service offering.

A cloud-based system for SMBs to book and manage their work schedules

A way to use pre-built markdown templates to build a blog.

The startup links you up with a “local” car service that comes directly to you and doesn’t wait for you to find a ride, saving you time and money.

Built a mobile app that allows people in India to send money to family across state lines.

A digital platform for those who operate small businesses (like restaurants, cafes, and beauty salons) to serve as a one-stop shop to track and manage their business. It’s a tool that aggregates all of the paper and online paperwork into a single platform.

A startup that connects businesses with people who can help them run their business. The startup provides investment advice, coaching, and other services to businesses that are looking to expand.

A company that sells low cost digital cameras to students, aiming to help them improve their photography.

A startup that wants to create a marketplace where anyone can give and receive peer-reviewed ride-hailing reviews, powered by a crowd-sourced rating system.

A startup that wants to sell high-end football jerseys for the NFL.

A startup that lets you see how long it would take to drive from A to B, within a specific budget.

Company that automates customer acquisition and retention by serving up valuable content and promotional offers, while also tracking and analyzing each customer’s behavior.

Check out their blog post on how they built their prototype of this tool.

The startup is building a tool to help startups get more visibility into their customers. The startup wants to use data to build a “scalable dashboard” that allows small and medium sized businesses to see all their social media data in one place.

A startup that enables anyone to create a micro-site and sell it for $10 a month.

InstaGro is building a tool to help small businesses manage their invoices and payments, and to automate the tedious process of sending out invoices.

A platform for the entertainment industry to create, manage, and monetize its content. The startup says it will help artists “pivot to new business models, stay profitable, and expand their business”.

A startup that sells the homes of people who are traveling abroad for long periods of time and stay

A way to integrate data from healthcare providers, such as labs, to help doctors manage cases.

A startup that makes it easier for hotel guests to use their credit card on property. The company’s founders came up with the idea at a conference where the hotel they were staying at had a similar feature, and thought there was a better way to do it.

A startup that is building the first full-stack security platform for communication between mobile apps and web browsers, a service that allows mobile apps to be more secure.

This is an ongoing list of startups that have raised funding. This list is compiled from Crunchbase and other news sources.

The startup is building a platform that helps people buy and sell products and services in a community of users. The startup is working to launch in the US.

This startup is building a “secure, low-cost, and secure” ID system that aims to help the US government grant a person legal status they can

A way to protect your assets, like things you’ve bought, from being accidentally lost or stolen.

A digital platform for letting companies offer flexible working options to their employees, from part-time to full-time, with better benefits and higher pay.

The "Y Combinator Blog" is a blog that provides updates about YC companies along with news about YC itself and the startup community.

A tool that manages B2B data and provides insights and analytics.

A “platform to help you manage your money and debt”.

A digital platform that pairs journalists with startups, non-profits and institutions that need help with their messaging.

A startup that delivers a suite of services for small businesses. The business is built on a service called Hubsmash that automatically connects remote workers with employers via Slack.

Loose talk among friends and coworkers about work and life. You can learn a lot about people by what they’re discussing, and what they’re saying is more than just idle chatter. This startup wants to make that sort of content available to employers and HR departments.

A startup that offers a tool for store owners to visualize their inventory on a single platform.

A platform that delivers services for workers. The company provides a simple way for businesses to create and manage a platform for their employees to log into the company’s website, and access the company’s websites, apps, and other services that are relevant to their job. The company has already partnered with companies like Tradesy and DoorDash.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence startups are growing at a rapid pace, and this one is focused on helping software companies get the most out of their data.

A startup that connects high school students to internships and part-time jobs at startups. It operates in the US, Canada, and the UK, with plans to expand to Australia, the Netherlands, and Germany in the future.

A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.

A startup that helps you discover and book concerts, local events and activities, and more, without incurring charges.

For those who can’t afford to pay for a full-time financial advisor, this startup offers hourly advice via phone or video.

A startup that helps business owners create websites with a drag-and-drop interface. The company says it has 30,000 users within its network and is growing quickly.

A way for companies to take online surveys without the hassle of paper.

A tool that helps companies grow their sales and brand through social media.

iaidigital helps cities manage their streets and sidewalks. It uses the power of machine learning to automatically flag and alert city workers about potholes, graffiti, and other issues.

With this product, customers in India and China can pay for food and groceries from their phones.

A collaborative online photo library with a curated search and social features.

A tool for bringing together the various employees in the supply chain of a product. The platform is meant to help manage the complexity of supply chains, which include multiple suppliers, and to keep a closer eye on the supply chain.

This is an app that helps people plan trips based on similar stats to Yelp.

A startup that helps scientists get their data into a machine learning algorithm. It requires users to have data from a certain kind of experiment and has a subscription model.

A startup that wants to help onboarders and salespeople collaborate more effectively.

A connected car startup focused on providing an on-demand ride service. It’s one of the companies that was part of the Telangana government’s PPP program.

"We are a company that believes that people should be paid fairly, but we also believe that they should be able to save a little money to be able to afford that," said CEO and co-founder Chris Harvey. "We’re creating this technology that allows people to be able to save a little bit of money in the form of a small credit for the time that they are working."

A platform for connecting a business’s entire workforce to its customers online, so that customers can find, communicate with and engage with employees through their social networks.

People use the app to share their taste in music, movies, and other media. This is done in the form of collaborative playlists, which allow users to contribute music or art to a playlist, either anonymously or by providing a title and a description.

A tool that helps organizations create a “permissioned” blockchain.

A Chrome extension that makes it easy to style web pages with various colors and layouts.

A help desk software platform, which helps businesses solve customer problems more quickly and efficiently.

A startup that helps companies with their social media presence. The company says it helps companies post content that resonates with their followers, and that they’ve delivered more than 1,000 social media posts for clients.

A startup that builds an AI-powered chatbot to help businesses with product research, customer support, and sales.

Speaking of the “Ikea of finance”, this startup is building a digital platform that lets you build your own financial portfolios.

A tool for teams to file and manage their patent applications

A startup that provides a platform for developers to create a virtual reality experience for customers. The startup is building out a marketplace for developers to sell their work.

A startup to help people create their own social networks, like inviting friends and family to join along with creating a digital “photo album” that you can share with others.

A startup that helps small businesses gain trust with tools to increase security, privacy, and transparency

A sort of email directory for charities, where they can add names and email addresses of people they'd like to donate to, and then send them emails when they have funds to donate.

A tool for managing warehouses and fulfillment, with a focus on the US East Coast.

A startup that helps you organize your life on your iPhone and iPad. The startup says that it "helps you get better at having a life" and helps you manage your days.

A tool for restaurants to help them create menus and sales and reservations.

A “digital assistant” that helps you with different tasks, like monitoring your sleep cycle, creating a shopping list for your grocery store run, or getting directions.

A healthcare platform for patients, who can access a network of doctors and other healthcare providers who accept payment from the patient via the platform.

A platform to help brands source and engage influencers and influencer marketing

A digital adviser that helps with finding a home to buy.

A SaaS HR software company that helps businesses like hotels and restaurants manage their staff, find new hires, and end-of-employment benefits. The company had its first round of funding in June.

This startup wants to bring more transparency to online rental listings by creating a search engine that sorts and ranks homes based on their location, amenities, and price, as well as the number of reviews they have.

A designer and developer for scrapbooking tools

A company that links employers with unemployed workers, helping the unemployed find jobs and employers get a reliable pool of workers.

A platform for renters to find, discover, and book the best way to get from A to B via car, bus, train, or bike.

A startup that helps people who have bought a home and are moving in, and then helps them find a contractor to make small home improvements

A tool for tracking your personal and professional health, allowing users to set goals and track their progress.

Business management for independent professionals, such as photographers, videographers, and event organizers. The startup provides tools for managing work obligations, expenses, and income, as well as coordinating and scheduling.

A credit card that rewards users with points for their purchases.

A tool that helps with the process of hiring temporary workers.

A software company that develops custom software for automotive manufacturers.

A new kind of “under-the-radar” startup that creates and maintains “micro-cities” for renters, like Uber for apartment complexes.

“a mobile software application that enables users to create, manage and share their virtual avatar, and communicate with others through text, voice and video”.

The startup provides small businesses with the tools to grow organically by providing tips and support to small businesses from its customers.

A startup that wants to make it easy for companies to pay their bills, track service calls, and get invoices all in one place.

A technology that helps employees plan and execute their work better, in real time.

A chatbot for managing and responding to customer reviews.

A startup service that allows users to create a blog and share it with their social networks

This startup is building a platform to help small businesses find the right staff for their specific needs. The startup said that they have now launched in Boston and New York.

A web-based platform for financial planning, with an AI that helps users make better financial decisions through behavioral psychology.

A personal assistant app that integrates with your calendar.

A portable diagnostic tool for children to run noninvasive tests. A startup that helps parents test their kids for common problems before they go to the doctor. The startup is working on a lower-cost version of its product that can be used at home.

A Square-like mobile payment system that focuses on retail, but with a focus on cashless transactions and no fees for the merchants.

A startup that offers video conferencing for people who don’t have a lot of time to meet face-to-face.

A tool for managing and making sense of your personal expenses.

A startup that specializes in HR software for startups, focusing on self-service. The company wants to help people make their HR software work for them, making it easier for startups to get things done without needing to pay for HR services.

A SaaS accounting service focused on small businesses. It’s powered by Intuit’s QuickBooks enterprise software.

A search engine for ideas and ideas. The startup’s premise is to make sure you find the best ideas, and do it all for free.

On-demand dry cleaning service with a secret weapon: an advanced algorithm that identifies stains and cleans them without damaging fabrics.

A platform to allow landlords to manage their rental units and see the occupancy.

A company that wants to provide a platform to use design in healthcare. It’s a “new generation” of design tools that makes the practice more efficient and accessible. The company is currently focused on the US market.

Cloud-based software that helps manage business travel.

A SaaS application meant to help recruiters manage the process of calling and hiring candidates, and keep track of who they’ve interviewed and what they’ve asked.

A platform that lets people deposit checks with a smartphone camera, without having to physically write a check.

A startup that wants to help people build websites faster, especially people with little-to-no experience in web development. It wants to help people build websites with WordPress, using AI and machine learning to analyze code and then rebuild the site.

A B2B sales platform that helps companies capture leads and share them with agencies.

A company that makes custom-designed pens that attach to a USB thumb drive. The startup looks to disrupt the $1.3 billion market for replacement pens.

A mobile app that connects people looking to buy a new home with a realtor who can help them get an offer in writing. The founders say they’re already working with over 100 companies in real estate, including Robinsons Homes and Landmark.

A startup that will take waste from 3D printers and turn it into bricks.

This startup is building a tool for retailers to increase the speed of their online inventory management and better manage product availability.

The startup is launching a digital platform to improve the quality of on-demand clinics. The platform aims to offer a way for doctors to easily post their services and for consumers to find a nearby clinic that offers appointments they need. The company is currently operating in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A startup in Singapore that plans to replace the human middleman in real estate transactions with an AI-powered software platform. It’s currently running a pilot in Singapore, and plans to launch in Australia next year.

A tool for businesses to manage customer programs, offering features like email marketing automation, loyalty programs, and more.

A personal finance management app for managing credit scores, debt and budgeting.

This startup is building a social network for people in the legal industry. Its platform provides law firms with a way to communicate with clients and other law firms, as well as a way for clients to communicate with law firms about their cases.

A startup that makes it possible to create and sell virtual goods and services within games and other apps. The startup has recently raised $5 million.

A feedback loop for e-commerce stores, allowing them to ask customers for feedback on their experience right after a purchase. Also offers a native app for the web store.

A startup to help the underprivileged in the U.S. with legal aid.

A software that enables the user to make an ICO (initial coin offering)

A company that aims to make an “energy-harvesting” machine that can harvest heat from space and use it to heat homes.

This startup does a reverse image search for a person or a company, and can tell you when a photo was taken, where it was taken, and the person or company who was in the photo.

A startup that helps Facebook pages and Instagram profiles monetize with advertising.

A startup that helps businesses manage all their customer data and automate tasks across the customer lifecycle. The company says revenue will be generated through the use of its software, which runs on the company’s API.

The Brooklyn-based coworking space is a community of startups and entrepreneurs working to change the world. It’s located at 625 Kent Avenue, and has a membership program that ranges from $50 to $250 per month.

An AI startup in the healthcare space, focused on building tools that help doctors and researchers better use the data that’s already out there.

A social network for sharing data on air-quality, environmental conditions and other environmental data. The startup is focused on the environmental sector.

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered chatbot that allows your Facebook friends to talk to your bot for all the things.

A startup that makes the process of buying and selling gift cards more efficient by helping retailers that don't have an actual point of sale system.

A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.

A tool for job seekers, acting as a job board for all the jobs in one place, allows employers to post and manage the application process, and see who the top candidates are for the position.

This startup helps companies get customer support from their existing customers. The company uses their own chatbot to answer customer support questions.

A platform for hiring freelance developers, who can be paid in monthly subscription fees. It’s currently trying to build a business in Germany and the Netherlands.

A digital-only magazine for women, meant for women who are new to technology.

A software company that wants to help companies integrate their data and systems in a way that is more cost-effective and easier to manage.

This is a software-as-a-service platform that allows members to buy and sell bitcoin with zero fees. The startup currently only works with digital currencies, and only with verified users, but plans to expand its service to other financial instruments in the future.

A way to keep track of what’s being sent between two strangers, without someone having to physically keep an eye on it.

A tool to help companies identify which of their customers are at risk for churn, allowing them to target people who might be worth their time.

This company started as an internal tool to help small businesses manage their social media accounts, but has now launched its own social media app that helps small businesses manage their social media accounts. The startup says they have $250,000 in monthly active users.

A messaging and referral app designed for healthcare and medical professionals. It’s a sort of Yelp for the healthcare industry, helping patients find nearby doctors and other medical services.

A mobile payments app that’s “like Venmo but for credit cards”. The company is looking to disrupt the way that people pay each other, and enable commercial transactions.

This startup is building an automated recipe-writing app that allows cooks to create recipes in a simple, drag-and-drop interface, and has hundreds of thousands of users. The startup wants to build the recipe writing platform for professional chefs, and is currently working on a way to scale it.

An AI-powered product to help companies understand the sentiment around their products. They’re currently working with 100 small and medium sized companies.

A digital health startup that provides a dashboard for users to track their daily health and fitness habits

The startup wants to create a one-stop-shop for all of your Facebook ads needs. The startup is currently only available to marketing executives.

A web-based productivity tool for freelancers that lets them create and collaborate on projects, track their progress, and manage their projects with a shared calendar and task management.

One of the first building tools to be powered by code and designed to last a lifetime. The company builds furniture from wood, metal, and concrete using woodworking robots.

A digital health dashboard for consumers and doctors.

A company that provides a way for users to streamline the process of submitting and managing insurance claims.

A startup that wants to help organizations cost-effectively learn, measure, and deploy AI.

A platform for building and selling online courses. The startup is a Y Combinator alum.

A search engine for fashion companies to find clothes and accessories that go well together, cut for a specific body type, or are made with sustainable materials.

A personal assistant that helps you get organized by organizing your life. The startup is working on a one-stop-shop for all personal assistant needs, and recently announced that it’s in talks with Google. The startup’s success will depend on achieving a critical mass of users that want the help.

The startup is a “collaborative workplace” software platform that helps companies organize their teams, communication, and productivity. The company believes the startup is one of a few that will not just succeed but also transform the workplace.

A new kind of “smart wallet” that aims to make it easier for people to use crypto. Their goal is to build a better, more secure, and more convenient wallet.

A payroll system that doesn’t charge employees a monthly fee.

A company that provides software to help retailers and manufacturers save energy and money, especially in the new era of low-carbon regulations.

A simple tool for depositing checks at a bank branch and withdrawing money from an ATM.

An easy-to-use platform for managing your business finances from one place. The startup is backed by Y Combinator, and is currently in the process of preparing for a funding round.

A startup that enables the design of 3D printed prosthetics. The company wants to provide 3D printing for prosthetics as a service, by offering it as a service, and partnering with 3D printing machines to print them.

The startup wants to make it easy for anyone to learn how to code for the web, so they can build websites and apps.

A startup that lets users “check-in” to any retail location and receive a discount or free gift. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.

A self-driving car startup that’s raised a $5.5 million Series A.

A platform to help small businesses with accounting. They’re focused on helping small businesses with accounting, but they say they can be useful for larger businesses.

Automated insurance company for small- to medium-sized businesses and sole proprietors focused on the US.

A visual platform that helps organizations like colleges and hospitals monitor and take action against sexual harassment.

A company that sells a kit that allows you to mix your own juices, juices, and other drinks at home.

“Echo” is a new retail platform that allows customers to buy goods from a selection of over 1,000 brands, with a selection of goods from 70,000 product designers. In addition to a platform for customers to search for things to buy, Echo also offers a sales channel for retailers.

A platform for web publishers to monetize videos, with a focus on both the video production and monetization processes.

A video editing platform that lets users edit 30-second videos that they’ve recorded privately with their phone.

A platform for video-game developers to track what their players are doing and monitor their progress.

This startup is building a way for e-commerce companies to track inventory, create alerts, and optimize supply chain processes.

A startup that lets movie theater patrons order food and drinks directly from their seat.

A platform that lets people create free, ad-supported media.

A startup that uses AI to identify fraudulent ads, bolstering security for publishers.

Idea: A company that builds a mobile app that provides a “visual, interactive experience” for the middle school/high school students to buy and sell items to one another.

A Singapore-based startup that aims to create a new, more accessible way for companies to collect payments.

A startup that provides a service that takes care of your plants for you

This startup is building a tool for HR managers to manage their team’s performance reviews. The service has already been used by over 5,000 companies, and it’s available for free to large companies.

A tool for developers to build, manage, and distribute digital applications. The company also offers a developer platform that lets users build, test, and deploy digital applications.

A chatbot that helps you navigate the world of digital marketing.

An analytics tool for sports teams that helps them understand where fans are coming from and how their fanbase is growing over time.

This is a toolset that makes it easy to integrate artificial intelligence into customer service interactions. They’re close to launching and have raised $12k in seed funding.

An introduction to the world of cryptocurrencies designed for non-techie business people looking to get involved in crypto.

A company that helps with the design of data models and the development of data visualizations, which can be used in a variety of different ways.

Instacart is an on-demand grocery delivery service that takes orders via an app. Instacart hopes to be a one-stop shop for weekly shopping, with a focus on healthy, organic food.

A way for restaurants to track how much customers spend on food, and how satisfied they are with the experience.

A company that builds tools that help organizations manage risks around data.

A mobile phone app that helps you set up a gifting experience with friends on Facebook. It’s not clear if this is a new feature or a monetization play.

A startup that wants to help small-business owners run their businesses without hiring a full-time employee. They provide a suite of tools, from a scheduling app to a CRM to help you get things done.

A healthcare company that has designed a device to use a smartphone’s camera to detect tumors

This startup wants to help companies manage a growing number of integrations. It’s an API marketplace that allows companies to connect to other apps without building their own.

A way to streamline the legal process for selling patent rights.

A ticketing and event ticketing software company. The startup wants to build a platform for events to sell tickets online, as well as a way to sell tickets at non-traditional venues like bars and gyms.

The startup delivers everything you need to get started with your brick-and-mortar store on Amazon.

A company that lets you connect your company’s email and social media accounts, allowing employees to switch between email and social media accounts.

This startup is looking to help businesses in a very crowded space get a better handle on the various systems they use to run their sales. So far they’ve built a system for retailers to track the entire cycle of a sale, from data entry to sale to follow-up.

A startup that aims to help new immigrants to the US living in shelters find jobs.

Innovation in the US has become a flashpoint for the rest of the world. From its inception in 2010, the French government has invested in French Tech. In France, startups have received €4.5 billion in funding in recent years, according to INSEAD.

A platform for data-driven advertising

Fintech company that offers investors a way to borrow against their crypto holdings.

The app allows users to see how others have chosen to be paid by brands by analyzing the links, comments, and emails in their inbox.

Startup that is building an AI-based language model to make text analysis faster and more accurate

A device that helps detect if a home has lead poisoning, with a baked-in educational platform

A startup that uses facial recognition to identify and tag art pieces in museums. The startup has a $3.5 million Series A to build out its platform, and plans to expand to other museums.

A platform to help small businesses with accounting. They’re focused on helping small businesses with accounting, but they say they can be useful for larger businesses.

A company that’s created a new platform for managing teams and projects — a tool designed to help teams stay organized and on top of their work.

A platform that allows businesses to grant employees access to multiple work tools and applications. It’s currently in beta.

A startup that vets credit card applications by customers before they’re approved. The startup says it’s saved its customers a few million dollars in potential fraud.

A P2P loan marketplace for the global unsecured consumer market, which is an estimated $2 trillion.

A company that’s building a tool that allows you to create virtual tours of your real estate property, using data from Zillow, Redfin, and other real estate data providers.

A mobile app that lets users choose from a curated list of brands of choice, then gets them rewards when they spend money with them.

A tool for helping people set up and manage their own Wi-Fi networks at home or in the office, with a focus on security.

A video chat platform that allows users to have group chats with 1,000 people.

This startup helps US companies deal with the $1.4 trillion in student loan debt.

A project management platform: “Many small businesses are managing their projects themselves,” said CEO Ben. “We want to help them have access to the same data and value proposition that large companies have.”

A company that brings the advantages of machine learning to enterprise workflows.

A travel site for teens and young adults.

A company that promises to make travel booking and finding flights as easy as posting a free, ad-supported message on Facebook. The startup has raised $40 million in funding.

A tool for people who want to make an extra $300,000 a year doing what they love and earn an average of $20,000 a month by teaching others how to do the same. It’s a freelance teaching platform that allows anyone to make money teaching web development, programming, and more for clients around the world. It’s a flexible, scalable option for people who want to reach their personal goals.

A SaaS company that claims to let companies scale their mobile payments infrastructure as needed.

A food delivery service that’s also a delivery marketplace. It’s looking to do the same things that TaskRabbit does, but for food.

A startup that gives users an easy way to track workouts, food, and sleep routines to help them reach their health and fitness goals.

A startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage their finances by doing things like putting together a financial plan, tracking financial goals, paying bills and more.

The company, known as “The Pick”, is building a system that helps users find the products they need when they’re not in the store. The Pick offers a digital storefront and mobile app that allow users to search products, compare prices, and get delivery times.

A startup that lets users create their own “digital assistant”, a chatbot that works with text, voice, and image commands.

A startup that wants to give young adults a place to nurture their entrepreneurial spirit. The company looks to bring together startups and would-be entrepreneurs to help them make the leap.

A startup that provides a service where people can solve their own problems by posting their questions on your site and professionals can answer them (like a Quora)

A startup that helps a customer create a sustainable business model, and a product that helps a company sell a sustainable product.

A platform that lets users buy things like clothes and accessories at a discount on sites like Amazon and Jet.com.

A way of creating a digital storefront to sell products on Amazon.com with 3% of sales going to the seller.

A P2P lender that works with government sponsored housing programs in the US.

The startup is building an automated “tech support bot” that helps you get your problems resolved.

A startup that wants to add “biometric security” to inexpensive smartphone cameras, so the camera can be opened and the phone stolen by an attacker. The startup is working on the technology, which relies on an in-built fingerprint scanner using a touchscreen to unlock the phone.

A 3D-printed gadget that looks like a baseball cap that can be used to store and carry your phone in your pocket. The company calls it the “Portable Pocket”.

A company that would hack the way we measure the temperature of food. The startup is selling a digital thermometer that plugs into an outlet and can measure the temperature of various foods. It can also connect to a phone to show the temperature of the food on a digital screen.

Building a virtual store for Apple Watch

A SaaS-based service for retailers that helps them manage their shipping.

A B2B company working on a daily planner for teams working remotely that will allow them to synchronize their plans, tasks, and notes.

A company that uses data to tell which products to stock, based on demand.

A platform to help people understand the costs of their health insurance, very similar to the OpenHealth platform.

The company’s goal is to “put the attention economy to work for people, not for advertising.” Or, as they put it: “Imagine a world where the people who you want to be connected to are the ones who know you best – your friends – not the people who pay the most.”

An on-demand, on-demand marketplace that allows people to buy and rent things they don’t have time to get. They have a car sharing service in the works, and they’re trying to build a platform that connects renters with contractors and service providers.

A platform that enables users to customize their phones with accessories like stands and cases.

"Wired" magazine named the list of the "75 Smartest Entrepreneurs in Technology" on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the magazine.

A cloud-based e-commerce platform for restaurants, which also includes a loyalty program, recipe sharing and ordering, and a restaurant finder.

A platform that helps people hire and manage freelance designers, developers, and other professionals.

A DIY website builder that allows users to drag and drop website elements such as videos, images, and widgets to build websites quickly.

A tool for creating video tutorials on how to do things

A tool for creating custom front-end web applications with a drag-and-drop interface

A startup for movie scripts. It lets users browse and comment on scripts, and the startup says it’s already had over 40,000 scripts submitted.

A tool for managing your online marketing that’s based on an approach called CAPTCHA.

A payment and subscription service that lets you save money on your cell phone bill and get a discount on your phone plan.

A startup that is building a ride-hail app for parents to get access to child care facilities and pick up kids from school. Previously, parents had to go to a parent-only school.

A platform that helps brands build a mobile game, a video, a mobile app and a mobile website all from one tool.

A platform for creating short video series. Creators can then use the platform to optimise their videos for online viewing.

A web-based accounting tool that helps businesses manage and track their finances.

A mobile app that helps users find the cheapest price for goods they're buying online.

A startup looking to help auto dealers sell their used cars quickly, offering a broader selection of cars, and making the process easier for auto dealers.

A company that helps restaurants and retailers maximize their profits with a payments and marketing platform.

A company that wants to bring real estate into the cloud, redesigning the way we do things like list homes for sale and track listings.

A system that monitors and controls the airflow in buildings and rooms, allowing them to be more energy-efficient and comfortable.

The startup is building a way for people to find the right place to live. It wants to make home-buying cost-effective and easy in the U.S.

A company that sells “custom referral software”, which lets a company buy a set of referrals from their existing customers.

A platform for hiring virtual assistants, including a mobile app and support for a variety of platforms.

A tool for setting up emergency events for the homeless, their friends, and supporters. The startup uses a mapped interface to organize people and events, and then helps organize logistics like phone calls, note taking, and transportation.

A platform for hiring experienced contractors to do IT and engineering jobs in the US, with a focus on higher education

It’s a startup that gives a new way to do cold emails.

A company that makes a more efficient way for businesses to collect their payments. The startup offers a managed service that tracks payments and reports on status, and is a consultant for merchants.

A tool to help users of the app Groceries on Demand upload photos of their groceries, in order to make it easier to complete their grocery orders.

A tool designed to help kids learn to code and hone their skills. The company is in the early stages of building a curriculum for middle schoolers.

A startup that aims to help parents get their kid’s homework done. The company builds a platform for teachers to provide online computing to students via web-based apps.

A company that makes modular office furniture that can be built by a customer, shipping it in 5 parts. It currently has 3 large manufacturers that it works with building its products in China.

An open API for healthcare providers to connect with each other to create a single network. Hopefully, it will help solve the problems of data silos and the like.

A new way to provide your friends with their favorite drinks, based on the idea that if you’re going out and it’s 3:30 in the morning, you’re more likely to want a beer and a shot than you are a glass of champagne.

A micro-lending startup that sets its own timelines for loan funding, instead of waiting for customers to have their credit histories evaluated by traditional banks.

A startup that wants to help patients monitor the side effects and success of their drugs.

Web-based software that gives restaurants a way to track guests from table to table, and find out how much money they spend.

A tool for people who are using the same computers for work and personal software

A startup that helps you rent Netflix and Amazon Prime video from the cloud.

A platform that provides the source code and instructions necessary to build physical products using 3D printing.

This company, which is now a subsidiary of software giant IBM, is trying to make enterprise software simpler for smaller organizations. They have a new product called “Navigator”, which is designed to help organizations of all sizes (from a startup with 3 people to a Fortune 100 company) navigate the complex technology stack they have today.

This startup that makes a “virtual shared workspace”.

A tool for hotels to keep track of their assets and track down items that are lost, stolen, or damaged. The startup is already working with hotels in Brazil and Colombia and wants to expand to other Latin American markets as well.

This startup wants to help healthcare professionals keep track of all the bills and costs associated with a patient.

A company that helps people find the right healthcare provider when they need it, whether that's a doctor or a lab. Their product is a directory of doctors and their practices, with the ability to add doctors, review and edit information, and even schedule appointments.

A digital store for collectible cards that helps users build a collection by tracking and sharing their collection, and by selling cards in a marketplace.

An AI-powered analytics engine for games that helps developers understand players. The startup is trying to revolutionize the way game developers track and analyze their players.

This is a service for the social media influencer market. It lets influencers promote brands without the need for retailers to ship products to them or pay for advertising. It’s similar to Influential, though it appears to have fewer influencers on its platform.

A group messaging app that uses artificial intelligence to make group calls more efficient, offering suggestions on topics to discuss. It’s currently available in beta.

This is a direct-sales platform for retailers. The startup sells merchandise from retailers to their own customers.

An AI assistant that learns from your conversations and can perform a number of tasks like shopping, booking travel, and scheduling meetings.

An enterprise-grade chatbot that allows companies to train the chatbot to interact with their teams. Current users include Google and Microsoft, who are using it for customer service.

A chatbot platform that helps restaurants manage the back of their house. It’s built on top of the same language processing technology that Facebook uses to turn user chat messages into ads.

A messaging app for the enterprise, aimed at the “creative” market. The company wants to use the app for project management, chat, and productivity.

A platform that allows businesses to identify and hire the best talent for any job they’re hiring for.

A medical software company focused on digital health products for primary care physicians and hospitals.

A credit card that pays you back when you pay it back. Cardlytics uses mobile technology to help people manage their credit cards, with a unique feature that helps you monitor your spending and cuts down on the number of times you have to pay off a credit card.

A platform that helps small businesses manage their expenses. The startup has built a cloud-based software system that allows small businesses to run reports and track their cash flow, and handle expenses such as rent, utilities, and business contributions. It offers free plans for nonprofits and businesses with fewer than $1 million in revenue.

A company that makes it easier for the visually impaired to translate symbols. The startup has raised $1.2 million.

A place for all the comedians and comedy fans to come together and talk about comedy.

A company that helps small businesses by giving them a platform to get their products in front of large-scale advertisers.

This startup is building an app that helps creative professionals manage their network, including connecting them with designers and engineers.

makes it easier for people to discover, research, and purchase private jets.

A platform for telemedicine with video conferencing and a “virtual doctor” that makes appointments and answers questions

An AI system to recommend and execute financial transactions

A tool for businesses to create and share content using a drag-and-drop interface. It’s currently in beta for enterprise clients, and is also available as a mobile app.

A startup building a connected camera that you can wear or mount on a bike, that can track the location of your car in real-time and provide a bird’s eye view of your car in case of theft.

A startup that offers a highly customisable, easy-to-use platform for designing employee relocation packages

A startup that lets you share blog posts, products, and events with your social network through SMS. It’s free, and as you write you get paid in cash, in dollars or in bitcoin.

A startup that’s building a personal database of historical weather data, allowing users to build a weather record for themselves.

The startup is looking to disrupt the $2.8 trillion consumer credit industry, which it says is ripe for disruption by building a better credit scoring system for micro and small businesses using data from a company called Credit Karma.

An SaaS platform to help companies manage their complex legal needs, including document management and analytics.

A company that creates a secure file sharing service for the enterprise, with a particular focus on the financial sector.

A weekly newsletter for parents and grandparents that sends them a selection of articles, videos, and other content that they can share with their loved ones.

A startup that aims to help organizations be more efficient by “minimizing the amount of time, energy, and resources required” to manage the things that can’t be automated.

A platform for managing your personal digital life across multiple devices. Think of it as a digital “phonebook” that you can access from anywhere.

A startup that tracks the impact of your daily commute

A company that makes clothes that are made from yarn instead of cotton to help save the environment.

A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”

A company dedicated to helping real estate agents manage the management of their clients’ homes. The company wants to make the process of selling a home easier for agents.

A video creation and distribution platform for scientific research teams, used by the NIH, FDA, and other institutions.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to manage their money. The startup currently has 60,000 customers, who have saved $10 million in the last two years.

Smoothing the friction involved in the procurement process; a “digital procurement agency” that helps companies find suppliers and manage deals.

A project management platform for film and TV professionals –

A startup that helps people who have bought a home and are moving in, and then helps them find a contractor to make small home improvements

A tool that lets neighborhoods around the world participate in a mobile barter system, where a group of neighbors can trade items like furniture they no longer use or tools they no longer use. The startup has raised $8 million in funding to date.

A messaging app for API providers that lets developers create a messaging interface for their apps without having to write a full chat bot.

A video platform with a focus on user-generated content from around the world.

This company helps companies compare and optimize their telecom bills.

A startup that helps companies keep track of their billing and payment history. Currently handles more than 300 clients in the US.

A tool for online videos that allows users to embed their videos on their websites and share them with friends.

Payment app and Points-style rewards platform for mobile gamers.

A company that builds software for the insurance industry that allows agents to provide quotes and capture policy details.

A startup that helps you map out your career pipeline, determine where you might want to specialize and what types of positions you’ll be suited for.

A web-based platform that helps students and students’ parents plan and sign up for college courses.

A startup for sales and services to help small businesses with their marketing and sales needs, including design, digital marketing, and advertising.

A B2B SaaS that integrates with other companies’ platforms to allow customers to manage their own products and services.

The idea is a really simple one — it’s like a smart pen to help you remember the answers to your phone-based quizzes and tests. The pen has a button that acts as a button to the app, and the app has a button that acts as a button to the pen. The pen vibrates when the app thinks you have answered the question wrong, and the app vibrates when you get the question right.

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

This startup is building a last-mile delivery platform that puts the onus on the customer to order their own food.

A startup that provides a platform for individuals to learn Chinese online, in an app, and receive individually tailored lessons.

The startup is building an alternative to the traditional paycheck. The company gets paid by employers, and in turn, pays employees in cryptocurrency.

A messaging app for medical professionals, allowing them to share messages with patients when they are away from their medical offices.

A software company that wants to help companies pull data from multiple sources, combine it, and make sense of it all.

A B2B platform for finding and sharing freelance technical talent, with a focus on Germany.

A company that helps people get a loan based on the value of their business. The company is currently working with seven small businesses in the UK.

The startup helps people sell their second-hand products online, with the process integrating with eBay.

A company that is creating “smart doorbells” that can help you know when people are around your house and send them text messages.

A startup that helps companies explore their data across different data sources, with the goal of extracting the useful data buried in the data.

A team on a mission to build better and more accurate algorithms to predict the future of the US presidency.

A platform that helps digital nomads find their next destination to live and work online.

A B2B company that manages third-party contractors.

A startup for visually tracking cooking, with a chat tool for a community of food lovers. The app aims to help users cook more efficiently, with features like measuring and recipe creation.

A decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies. The company wants to become an “Ethereum with a lot of growth”.

A tool that makes it easier for businesses to take and track phone calls, with a focus on salespeople and customer service reps.

A “social network for people working from home”, aimed at helping them find things to do and make new friends. The startup also has a product for businesses that “want to run their own social network for work from home”.

The company’s client list includes brands such as BBDO, Union Bank, Accenture, and Yahoo, and its primary product is a service that helps webpages load faster.

A platform for companies to facilitate “experiential learning” programs. They’re currently working with three startups, including one in the YC batch.

A Gmail-like email client for people with mobility issues and those who can’t access the web.

A tool that helps manage inventory, allowing manufacturers to track their supply chain.

A company that provides developers with a platform to build third-party apps to interact with other apps and devices, and a platform for developers to build apps to interact with other apps and devices.

A food delivery service that uses Ubers to compete with Grubhub

A mobile app that helps people donate blood when they’re within a certain distance of a blood donation center.

A social network for parents, with features like group chats and fact-finding on the best places to take kids to eat. It’s already on over 50 college campuses, with plans to expand to over 200 in the next few months.

A startup that plans to pair a wealth manager with the wealthiest of wealthy individuals, who would then fund the startup on their behalf.

This startup provides a platform for tools to be built on top of, and integrates tools from across the web.

A startup in India that helps homebuyers navigate the confusing and tedious process of buying an apartment

“A smart tool that helps business professionals make better decisions about where to invest”.

This digital product management tool helps companies organize their products, services, features and features development, and testing processes.

A startup that wants to use a combination of machine learning and AI to help you better manage your health data. The startup is looking to take a similar approach to a product they previously released, the AmpedSense wearable device.

A software company that provides data and analytics to help businesses better understand customer buying behavior and other key metrics.

A digital platform that helps people reduce the environmental impact of their lives

A startup that connects employees with companies offering money to purchase their old cars

A scheduling tool for real estate agents that helps them see clients in real time and build relationships.

Automates the process of getting a fingerprint scanner to work on a device you already own. The startup is focusing first on Android devices and then extending to other platforms.

A tool to help people navigate the world of legal marijuana through a simple, easy to use interface.

A startup using machine learning to predict which loans a prospective buyer would default on the most.

This is a tool for businesses to get a customer’s information, and then sell it to marketers. For example, if you want to get your name and phone number out to people, you can use their product. The company is centered around the idea of a “content spider,” a simple tool that can crawl the web and pull up information it needs.

A personal assistant that helps you organize your life by helping you keep an eye on the things you are most likely to forget.

A startup that helps software engineers find remote jobs that match their expertise.

The startup is building a service that helps people find travel deals and book flights through a global travel booking platform.

Building a toolset that lets businesses and people send money to each other without having to give their bank account information.

A software company that tracks and analyzes water usage in the United States. The startup is led by a guy who also founded a company called Aquatech that tracked water usage in the US in the 1990s.

A simple way for people who use a wheelchair to move around with their phone. The startup wants to build a Bluetooth-enabled wheelchair that can be controlled with a smartphone. The wheelchair will come with a suite of sensors that will allow users to walk and even hop over obstacles.

A startup that aims to help freelancers communicate and coordinate with clients.

A “global prescription drug purchasing company”, with offices in New York, LA, and London.

A startup that makes your car’s dashboard more stylish through software.

A company that builds and markets cases that allows you to take pictures of your phone and add them to slides of your life

A fintech platform, helping companies with their transactions.

A social network for immigrants in the United States. The startup wants to create a community where immigrants can connect with each other and immigrant-owned businesses.

The founders want to build a way for people to monetize their work through a new, more transparent, and more scalable model.

A platform for teachers and students to interact that can be used to share notes, assignments, and homework via a visual interface. They are developing a way for teachers to grade students' work in real time, as well as a way for students to get feedback from teachers and classmates in real time.

A company that provides a new way to get into the food industry, aka “foodtainment”. The startup helps people learn how to cook and develop their own food businesses.

A platform for measuring the impact of ads on your website

This startup uses AI to detect insurance fraud and fraudulently- or improperly-claimed benefits. It offers a risk score and recommendations that help agents and customers decide on policies.

A video analytics platform for measuring video quality and engagement. The company recently raised $3 million in Series A funding and has 40 employees.

A company that allows businesses and individuals to create their own commercial drones.

A text messaging platform that helps consumers get a cheaper phone plan.

A startup that helps companies manage their customer service costs by managing the number of customer support hours.

This wearable device generates a heat map of the area around the wearer’s head, allowing him to better understand his environment.

It’s a credit card and a debit card rolled into one, and it’s meant for frequent travellers who want to pay for travel expenses with a single click.

A business-to-business marketplace for the supply of building materials.

A startup that wants to build a system that uses machine learning to help businesses with advertising.

A company that provides software and services for using A/B testing on websites, with a plan to expand into email marketing, Facebook ads, and other marketing channels.

A VC-funded London-based fintech startup that helps people use digital currency to make and receive international payments.

A sales tool for companies with an online presence, allowing them to get email addresses for leads and salespeople.

A tool for digitizing old school video, with the goal of preserving iconic video for future generations.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to get into clean energy. It wants to provide customers with the option to buy certified clean energy and provide assistance with using local solar panels.

A flight search tool that works with your phone's GPS and not just flight information from the airlines.

The company wants to create a service where a user can use their phone to create a virtual reality experience, and then capture it for viewing on other devices. Their product is a $3,000 kit that lets you “download” a 3-D model and bring it into the real world.

Enterprise software that streamlines employee onboarding and employee health care plans.

An online platform for physicians to post prices for various procedures, then let the consumer book an appointment. They’re in discussions with insurance companies to offer consumer-paid health care.

A publicly traded company for building and selling airline loyalty programs.

This startup is building apps for a new breed of online customers: the “barter class” who don’t have a credit card and don’t want to use it. The startup is a mobile-first company, and offers apps that let users barter with each other.

A way to make videos that is geared toward the Indian market.

A platform that helps ad agencies automate their creative workflow, allowing for much faster ad creation.

A company that helps brands co-create merchandise for sale, using a virtual store front to sell the items.

A startup that provides an online marketplace for services that help to find apartments for people who would otherwise be homeless

A tool for organizing and sharing notes, charts and graphs

A tool that allows businesses to track and make sense of the data they generate.

A real estate brokerage that helps people buy and sell homes in Brazil. The startup makes it possible to get an apartment in Brazil in under 30 minutes. It currently has 1,500 agents, but wants to expand to other countries.

A startup that uses AI to find bugs in code and find ways to improve code quality.

A platform that lets you integrate data from trusted sources with your website.

A platform that helps users save on the costs of running their own electric vehicle charging station.

A program that trains and supports people to become entrepreneurs. The startup has raised $1.35 million.

A company that helps retail chains and radio stations travel agency and tour operators to create their own digital storefronts.

A 3D printer that can print organic materials

A way to reduce costs and improve reliability for businesses using a device that uses radio to communicate with handheld devices and computers. The startup works with companies like Blackberry, Samsung, and Microsoft.

A platform that helps businesses track employee time, with a job requisitioning service for employers.

This startup is building a tool that helps school districts keep track of their IT budgets and prevent fraud and misuse.

A mobile app that helps you build up your savings to reach a goal, like a new car or a down payment on a house. It’s currently UK-based, with expansion to the US planned for 2020.

Not only does this startup make a cheap, disposable pen that works like a ballpoint, its CEO is also a pen manufacturer. The startup sells its pens for $5, and are made in China similar to Apple products.

Startup is building a product that allows companies to manage a large number of project teams, like design teams, engineering teams, and sales and marketing teams, all in one place. The company currently has 25 employees.

The startup helps nonprofits raise money, selling a “bundles of investments”.

Idea: A startup that helps companies bring their Google Apps data into a single platform for better analytics.

A new way to pay for groceries, with an app that allows customers to scan their items. The app will be able to take payments using cryptocurrency, and use machine learning to predict what customers might buy next.

This startup is building an app that helps people save money, either by pairing them with institutional investors or automated investing services.

A startup that helps employers create more effective management training programs with a central location to view, track and manage employee performance data. They’re currently in private beta.

A startup that wants to build an ecosystem around customer data so that customer data becomes an asset.

A tool that helps companies in the Southeast Asia and China take their money and invest it in the U.S. in a way that is tax-advantaged.

A hardware startup that’s building a ground-based sensor network to monitor air pollution, with an eye towards monitoring air quality in the developing world.

FuturePundit helps companies in the US and Europe to better understand how consumers’ online comments and reviews will affect their sales, and how such sentiment can be used to decide on future marketing and sales strategies.

A startup that’s building out a “one-click” mobile application development environment for Android, where you can write apps with a drag-and-drop interface.

A company that helps small businesses find tech talent, with a focus on recruiting developers and designers in cities where they are based.

A community for people seeking to buy, sell, and rent used cars. They’re building a platform that aims to be as frictionless as possible, and is now working with a few car dealerships in the UK.

An API for the video game community and video game streaming platform Twitch.

A tool for independent artists and entrepreneurs to get a head start on their next business idea. The startup has been testing through its own internal network.

A startup that aims to help people save time and money and make the most of the internet without spending much time on the internet.

An enterprise platform for the pharmaceutical industry, helping companies manage and secure their supply chains

A wearable that tracks your sleep and lets you know when it’s time for a nap.

A company focused on building applications to help hospital staff make better and more informed decisions.

A startup that sells furniture for people who live in tiny homes

The startup wants to build an app that helps people research investments.

A tool that curates content from a user’s favorite publications, including news and lifestyle

A company that builds a high-level way for developers to build digital experiences for brands.

A solution for companies with multiple sites, allowing them to manage inventory across all of their sites.

A data-driven way to price insurance.

A product for doctors to use in the exam room to help them understand what their patients need and how to provide it.

A startup that provides social care and home care for elderly people. The company has a mobile app that helps people find care providers, schedule visits, and pay bills.

A startup that helps remote teams organize and automate recurring tech tasks and build shared services.

A platform that helps users find and book appointments across the web and mobile apps. The startup, which launched in May, has already signed up over 1,300 professionals in its first few months of launch.

A startup for people who have accumulated a lot of debt and can’t pay it off. The startup aims to help people in more than 20 countries pay down the principal on their debts.

This is an app for retailers to manage their data about customers so they can personalize their marketing and loyalty programs.

This startup is building an all-in-one management platform for human resources, payroll and benefits.

This startup wants to build a social network for artists, allowing them to find collaborators, investors, and fans.

A digital platform that allows small businesses to create a “professional profile,” allowing them to connect with customers, decide what to do in situations like offer discounts, etc.

An employee scheduling tool that lets companies see all their employees at once with their schedule, location, availability and more.

A startup that wants to build a full-service, for-profit “Hotel of the Future” that is both a hostel and a small, boutique hotel. The company’s goal is to help youth find more affordable places to stay while they work on their career.

A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.

A digital tax preparation software that automatically calculates federal and state taxes based on a person’s income, deductions and credits

One of the most common complaints about shopping carts is that it’s hard to compare prices. 3D Cart hopes to help with that by showing the prices from the retailer’s site directly on the cart page.

An investment bank for emerging markets. The startup wants to make it easier for businesses to access capital.

On-demand voice-activated laundry.

A tool for helping companies (primarily B2B) manage their vendors, orders, and project management.

A tool to help data scientists find research data sets with the keywords that they’re looking for, allowing them to discover relevant, relevant, relevant data sets.

A personalized, gamified tablet game that teaches science concepts and helps students better understand the world around them.

A startup that provides a platform for developers to create a virtual reality experience for customers. The startup is building out a marketplace for developers to sell their work.

A company building a platform that draws on previous experience in the music industry to help artists distribute the rights to their work.

A digital concierge that helps individuals connect with and plan services for their pets.

A distributed insurance platform for people to self-manage their health care. The startup offers a way to buy and sell affordable insurance, and also offers a way for people to pay for individual health plans with their own funds.

An insurance company focused on the life-sciences industry. It’s currently starting a pilot in the San Francisco Bay Area.

An online platform that allows users to upload photos and videos, and write text, in the form of a slide show.

A startup that wants to bring an inventory-based mobile commerce platform to the store of the future. It wants to track inventory in real-time, without the need of a physical store.

A software company that helps businesses reduce fraud by providing an API for businesses to scan and verify invoices.

The startup is a sort of hybrid between a healthcare concierge and a personal shopper. It’s meant to help people who want help with the nuts and bolts of healthcare, like understanding their insurance or talking to doctors.

A SaaS tool for invoicing and payments, co-founded by two former engineers at Stripe.

A way to help children explore the world through a virtual world. Kidoosh wants to create a place where kids can explore and learn without fear of other kids.

This startup aims to bring a more human-centric approach to home security, offering a combination of a smart lock, a door sensor, and a camera.

A company building a kit to help you create your own “smart” home — for a fraction of the cost of similar systems.

A team that’s building a platform to publish and sell educational content for students in the US.

Currently focused on the UK, a B2B company that enables people to borrow money from their employer via a payroll deduction. It charges 1% interest for up to 12 months, and the company keeps 2% of the loan amount.

A tool for those who are on the fence about leaving their job to go on the job market, with tools to help them prepare for interviews, work on their resume, and define the kind of job they’re looking for. They are approaching companies and are set to launch the beta version of the product in the summer.

A startup that helps people pay for things, whether it’s a ride or a cup of coffee. The startup charges a fee of $5.95/month to charge and pay for things, and there’s an option to opt in for free.

A company that helps people quickly book flights by way of a flashcard-like app

A financial software company that works with a lot of banks to provide technology solutions for those banks to use.

This is a travel-based insurance service that aims to help vacationers abroad claim on health insurance they already have in the US.

a tool for people in the UK to hire a plumber in an instant, and guide them through their job.

This startup is making a tool to help people track their buying behavior and improve their decisions. It counts companies like Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, and Nike among its customers.

A startup that provides a point of sale (POS) system for retailers, allowing them to manage inventory and run their store without a lot of the overhead of a traditional store.

A company that focuses on tracking and sharing what employees are reading. The startup, which gives employers access to a data set of over 30 million books read, wants to make people more productive.

ASR is a digital investment platform, which is designed to give investors the chance to buy, sell, and trade digital assets.

This B2B SaaS company is building a program that helps companies manage their product delivery services and handle issues like returns and warranty claims.

In this world, your phone knows what song you’re listening to, when you’re at work, when you’re in bed, when you’re in a restaurant, and when you’re in a grocery store. The startup wants to turn that into a single app that can be used to control your music.

A tool for collaborative video editing

A virtual assistant that can handle your “to do” list while you’re away.

A smart home monitoring system that can send alerts about smoke and carbon monoxide leaks in a home.

A company that’s trying to make money work better in the US by “printing” prepaid debit cards.

A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.

In the early days of mobile, people didn’t have ways to reconnect with friends when they weren’t together. Now, with everyone having access to mobile data and voice, they can easily make phone calls with friends who are traveling and even call their friends’ phones.

The company is building a decentralized overlay payment platform that helps banks and e-commerce companies to build and manage loyalty programs.

A new type of blockchain that can perform millions of transactions per second while keeping the cost of running a full node low, enabling a new level of decentralization.

A way to protect online organizing tools from hackers, phishing and malware. The startup’s software protects sites from remote access and data theft.

A company that helps people work remotely by building a platform that helps them easily book conference calls, connect with co-workers, and handle all the other technical details that come with working remotely.

A machine learning company that is working on sophisticated facial recognition software for use in retail.

A smartphone app for finding other people to share a ride in an UberPool or Lyft Line.

The startup's product lets users make and sell music

A consumer-facing company that helps users manage the productivity of their devices.

A social network for women based in the Middle East

Allianz is building a tool to help their agents and brokers better understand insurance policy details, helping them make decisions on complex policies.

A digital platform that helps companies with everything from marketing to sales, with a view to helping it evolve into a full-service marketing agency.

This startup has built a platform for content creators to get good exposure for their content.

A personal assistant for the iPhone, with features like reminding you to go to the gym, tracking your phone’s battery, and sending you reminders when your friend’s birthday is coming up.

A tool that helps people in the US and UK set up a direct debit from their bank accounts, and pay their bills from anywhere in the world.

A tool for managing student debt, allowing users to “raise the rates they pay on student loan or credit card debt by a percent or more”.

In July 2019, the company began selling a credit card-sized device called a “pocket hacker” that can replace a key fob with a Bluetooth-connected device that allows you to lock and unlock your vehicle without a key. The pocket hacker has been a popular product at tech and automobile trade shows, and customers pay $99 a month to use the device.

An e-commerce app for small operations (typically unlicensed) that allows them to get orders and ship products directly to customers, as well as manage inventory and customer accounts.

A remote meeting solution for companies that want to meet where people are, like coffee shops or bars. The startup is currently focusing on a few dozen US and European locations, but plans to go global in 2018.

A startup that doesn't have a specific use case but wants to be a store of last resort for people seeking to borrow money.

A new platform that allows you to share your carpooling plans with friends on your preferred ride-sharing app, while allowing the app to earn money from your ride-sharing efforts.

Scrubly is a search engine that automatically detects plagiarism in text. The startup’s first product is a plagiarism tool that monitors students’ texts and flags any that could be misappropriated.

Services that allow consumers to manage their debt and credit card debt, regardless of how they pay it.

A startup that helps users create a “mini-startup” and manage it from one place. The company wants to help people build and grow startups with minimal effort.

A subscription-based digital platform that helps companies use data to identify trends and make better decisions for their businesses.

This startup is building a service to help people who have been laid off or fired from their job due to downsizing. The startup wants to help them get back on their feet by finding them a new job, a new gig or a new gig at a better company.

Build a tool to help make insurance claims “smart.”

A way for anyone to build an app for their network of friends. Everyone can build the exact app they want, from the look and feel, to the functionality, and get it out to the world.

This startup wants to replace the fees charged by traditional banks by building a platform that allows people to store money in a secure, open, and transparent manner

The startup aims to sell a $2,500 piece of hardware accessory to install in a car, which allows users to remotely control the vehicle while they’re not in it.

A networking app that helps users meet one another, make connections, and stay in touch.

A platform for purchasing generic drugs online, which then enables the patient to build their own medicine. The company is based in India.

A startup that helps students get their transcripts online for free.

A startup that is helping companies make their data sets more accessible to marketers and researchers.

An office productivity app for remote workers.

A startup that uses blockchain to rank and pay journalists for their work online.

A tool that organizes employees’ work in a way that makes sense to them, allowing them to collaborate more effectively.

A food delivery service with a focus on vegetarian/vegan meals and rooftop urban kitchens.

A tool to help creatives manage their store from anywhere using an app or website.

An algorithm that helps companies find the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity. It’s a way to use the power of AI to help companies at the 1MW to 100MW range, like power plants and chemical plants, use less energy.

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A platform that helps people get the most out of their social networks, by creating profiles with all the details they need, along with a quick and easy way to leverage their networks to get in touch with friends.

A digital-only magazine for women, meant for women who are new to technology.

A gourmet food delivery service that aims to cater to the needs of people with serious food allergies.

A tool that helps entrepreneurs write the best pitches possible for angel investors.

A startup for finding clean air near you, focusing on air quality in major U.S. cities.

A platform that provides a way for designers to build HTML5 websites with no coding knowledge.

A small business software company that helps businesses grow by providing analytics on sales, expenses, and customer acquisition.

A startup with a piece of technology that keeps track of every step in a certain process. The technology has been used in a number of industries, including pharmaceuticals, and helps companies track products and processes in real time.

A startup that wants to trip up criminals on the dark web with its browser extensions, which will show you where the site is hosted and how secure it is.

A startup that helps people with finding and organizing their digital photos

A SaaS for managing and tracking the performance of a dealership’s fleet. The startup has grown to 3,000 dealerships, including Hertz, Enterprise, and other major companies.

A product that helps companies understand their brand’s performance in the market.

This startup is building a mobile app that helps patients manage their health insurance. The startup is currently focused on the UK market.

A tool for paying contractors on a monthly basis, designed to be simple and easy to use for small businesses.

A security company that provides advanced locks and security systems.

A startup that helps people find and schedule massage therapists in San Francisco. It is merged with a Y Combinator company which offers a similar service.

A digital tool to help retailers sell to consumers.

A company that aims to mitigate the need for business travel by allowing employees to schedule business trips for any day from their desk.

A tool to help programmers manage their time, to increase productivity and reduce distractions.

A tool for helping people with mental illnesses and disabilities manage their medications and stay on track, particularly those with bipolar disorder.

A law firm that helps startups avoid SEC issues.

The startup has built a suite of cloud-based services for businesses to manage their HR needs. The founders, who previously worked for Google and Microsoft, say their services save businesses around $4 million a year.

A social networking app for people eager to learn Spanish and get the most out of their language learning experience.

A startup that wants to use machine learning and a “big data set” to help companies figure out where to open new locations. A big focus is on the US, with growth plans to expand internationally.

A medical records app that lets patients access their medical records from their phone. The startup has raised $2 million in seed funding.

A platform for managing your personal finances, combining features like bill-pay, savings, and investments, in one place.

A platform that helps users find great deals from local businesses, but don’t have to go to the store. The startup sees itself competing with Groupon, although it hopes to target smaller businesses and compete with Groupon’s recent move to focus on higher-margin, bigger deals.

A tool for helping people manage their tax filings by seeing who’s owed what and for what. The company tracks nontaxable income and credits, and helps you fill out your tax returns.

Eliminate the word “laundry” from your vocabulary.

A startup for people who want to donate their old home appliances, furniture, and other items for reuse. The startup says that in the US alone, more than 10 million items go unused in storage every year.

A startup that helps people create and share stories in a way that’s similar to a message board, but not as time-consuming.

A platform that lets you pay bills without a bank account, and without incurring large fees.

A startup that specializes in helping law firms manage their legal affairs, and create custom legal documents. A legal tech startup, it started with more than 250 legal professionals and is now raising a $10 million round led by Sequoia Capital.

A startup, built with a focus on the working professional, that helps users find the lowest cost alternatives to their mass transit pass.

This startup helps users find and repair faulty appliances.

A startup that provides a service where you can order a cuddling service and get cuddled by a stranger to help you with anxiety

A startup that lets users create and share 3D models of physical objects, with a focus on architecture and design.

A startup aimed to help people get the best possible deal on their car insurance. The startup’s software analyzes an individual’s driving history and compares it to a carrier’s pricing data to identify the best deal. The startup’s policy is to take a 0.5% commission off the top.

A personal assistant that helps people save money.

A startup that partners with local stores to make a delivery service that can get food to people within an hour. In the past month the company has already launched in London, and is planning to expand to the US.

A company that helps companies hire remote employees. It’s currently in private beta.

A software platform that broadcasts live video over all kinds of networks, and enables “interactive” on-demand video.

This startup is building a bike share that’s only available in cities where it’s legal to ride bikes on the road.

Scanners for medical devices, built to help patients use them more efficiently. Currently focused on the UK.

A platform for sales reps to automatically track orders and invoices.

A tool for recruiters that allows them to scope out potential employees in advance.

A Slack-like organization tool for freelancers, with plans to add project management tools and add an API for third-party developers.

A web platform that helps organizations manage their online marketing, sales, and CRM.

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An AI platform that predicts and optimizes the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, with built in mechanisms for doctors to adjust dosages, based on patient data. The startup wants to make the pharma process more accurate and efficient, by comparing dosages and predicting the effectiveness of the drug.

A startup looking to create a global network of decentralized networks (the Internet of Things, in other words) to help monitor and manage data on things like power grids and water systems.

A nonprofit that has built a model for giving low-income communities in the US access to loans from local banks

The idea is to take the already-popular “Rich People’s Guide to Paris” and make it more accessible to people who don’t have a lot of money.

A video platform for on-demand teachers, with a focus on teaching math, biology, and physics.

A startup that provides the user with a virtual office space while away from his or her regular office.

A startup that wants to build a logistics platform that can handle both traditional and digital delivery

Automating the process of training and vetting employees to better manage employee churn.

This startup is building an app that cuts through the noise of the daily news cycle, by separating the good from the bad. The app, called “The Daily”, takes a different perspective, highlighting the optimistic and the important, but not the trivial. It’s already been featured in the Washington Post, Fast Company, and the New York Times.

A platform for sharing and connecting with other people in the industry.

A karaoke app, with the company pitching a feature that lets users record a video of their karaoke performance and share it on social media.

A company that allows companies to hire a virtual office space for a fraction of the cost of traditional office space.

A startup that tells you when it’s time to take your medicine

A startup that wants to help you earn points and cash back rewards on your everyday expenses.

A 3D printing service that uses robots to build parts in high-volume using different materials. The company has a partnership with 3D Systems, which gives it access to a large pool of customers and materials.

A managed account service that helps SaaS companies increase email engagement and funnel signups from more qualified leads.

A company that helps financial institutions sell home loans and mortgages online

Of course, that’s just a sampling. And some of these companies are still in the idea stage, so they might not turn into actual businesses. But this list shows that there’s a lot of revenue to be made building new tools for the online world. Now it’s up to entrepreneurs to decide what sorts of products to build.

A platform that helps companies manage their supply chains with its software, which allows companies to import packaging and data from suppliers. It also helps give companies an overview of the supply chain, and how it behaves.

An online marketplace for local service providers, it allows users to search, compare and book local services like landscaping, handyman, and pest control.

A platform for small business owners to manage the paperwork needed to start a company.

An AI-based platform that helps businesses understand how they’re being paid, where they’re being paid, and which invoices are being paid first.

A tool for staying calm in stressful situations (like an interview)

A startup that helps users get the most out of the free food and other freebies they get from companies in exchange for signing up for their email list.

A platform for managing your personal digital life across multiple devices. Think of it as a digital “phonebook” that you can access from anywhere.

A platform that connects small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the digital marketing and adtech space to help them connect, learn, filter, and grow.

This is a service that allows people to send anonymous feedback to companies on products they’ve bought.

Idea: A startup that has built an interface for lawyers in the US to file patents. The software has been in beta for a few months and has 20 paying customers.

A social network for people who run their own businesses. The company wants to help people find like-minded people who can help with tasks like bookkeeping and payroll.

A startup making a visual, easy to use platform for curating and sharing podcasts.

A tool that lets people in different locations track and share what they’re buying, earning and saving across different platforms.

A digital assistant to help busy people around the world manage their finances. The startup compares itself to the digital assistants in both Apple’s Siri and Google Now, but with a different purpose built for managing finances.

A turnkey set of products and services for product managers including management of leads, sales, and marketing.

A mobile app that helps men find their soulmates that has been downloaded by 9,000 people since its launch in February.

A startup that helps people find the right gift for friends and family members

A smart contract that allows for a seller to create a transparent way for consumers to buy and use a product without needing to go through a 3rd party.

A platform for checking the health of a person’s gut and soon their overall health.

A management platform for small companies that helps assign tasks to team members, manage plans and resources, and conduct audits.

A company that provides a new way to get into the food industry, aka “foodtainment”. The startup helps people learn how to cook and develop their own food businesses.

A private-label membership-based platform that lets users pay to upgrade their access to health-related content.

A way to track the progress of project management and billing from the end user,

A startup that creates an artificial intelligence helper that helps people complete tasks

A startup that provides a platform for design thinking workshops. The company wants to help teams come up with creative solutions to problems.

This startup aims to help meet the demand in the IT service industry for IT professionals.

An online platform that allows businesses to order and receive last-minute packages.

A Boston startup that aims to make it easier for people to start a business by cutting out the middlemen that currently profit from them. It offers a suite of services that allow companies to set up a website in 15 minutes.

This startup wants to replace the traditional broker model with a commission-free, network-based system that brings together buyers and sellers. The startup says it already has several dozen clients.

The app is designed to help parents create a “structure for their day” as well as to make sure their child is doing well at school.

“A data visualization tool for sales, marketing, and operations teams”, meant to help companies visualize their own data more effectively.

A company that generates emergency alerts for users to see and hear. The startup is currently in the pilot phase.

A “digital assistant” that helps you with different tasks, like monitoring your sleep cycle, creating a shopping list for your grocery store run, or getting directions.

A software company that provides a platform for managing and tracking the finances of a large enterprise. The startup uses “blended ownership” — a hybrid of SaaS and on-premise tools — to help large companies manage the costs of their staff, partners, and vendors.

A way to manage and monitor HR teams, ultimately

A startup that publishes and sells books, publishing three a month on topics like business and finance.

A platform for identifying “problems” with your photos. The company has built an algorithm that identifies things like “your face looks too small” or “your background looks weird in this photo”.

A smart doorbell that can notify you when there’s a delivery.

A company that makes data visualizations and dashboards for use by marketers and other companies.

A “crypto-fiat exchange” where customers purchase cryptocurrency with fiat money and then pay their bills with the money they’ve earned.

A digital platform that allows you to explore and research topics of your interest by browsing and sharing user-created content.

An enterprise data management tool for companies that keep big data and is built to scale.

This startup aims to make it easier for people to pay for parking tickets, by building an app for parking enforcement agencies that lets them pay directly from their phone.

A “Twitter for books” that surfaces conversations happening around those books.

A startup that wants the world to know about the good work that nonprofits are doing

A platform for enterprise app development. It lets app developers build apps on demand, with tools like user management, a marketing dashboard, a payment system, and more.

A platform for developers to build IoT devices that can trigger actions, such as turn on lights and appliances. It’s like Kickstarter for IoT.

A tool that promises to automatically create a shortlist of candidates and automate the process of collecting feedback on them. It uses crowdsourcing to make an AI-based list, and provides coaching to the candidate to see if the feedback is accurate.

This startup helps companies build more effective meetings by giving them a way to track who’s talking, what they’re talking about, and how long they’ve been speaking. The result is a meeting that’s more engaged and productive, and the company says that it has helped the company save $1M in travel costs.

A platform for sales reps to stay on top of sales pipeline, work remotely, and answer customer questions.

An online marketplace for rentals of limited-use items like lasers, which are used for short periods of time and limited locations.

A platform to help people easily track their finances. The company is focusing on “low-risk” investments to make it easier for even the novice to invest.

A company that sells cool kitchen tops and pours that promote healthy eating habits

A startup that provides a marketplace for brokers and consumers to find, book, and pay for parking. The company’s founders are former employees of Parkingify, which they say is a prime example of the need for a parking marketplace.

A B2B platform that helps SMBs automate and streamline accounting

A startup that uses AI to predict which customers are most likely to churn and suggests discounts to bring them back.

A medical device company in the Netherlands that wants to bring a reusable medical device to market, which can be used for hysterectomies, colonoscopies, and other procedures. The device works with a camera and a monitor and wirelessly connects to an operating room.

A company that sends workers out to measure sites for a precise fit for solar panels

A financial analytics company that wants to help financial companies use “big data” to make sense of financial transactions.

A direct-to-consumer subscription service that focuses on providing tools for health and self-improvement. Offers access to workout plans, meal plans, and other content.

A startup that allows you to rent out your extra storage space on your Android phone.

A company that makes a cloud-based service for small businesses that allows them to collaborate in real-time and access their spreadsheets in the cloud.

idea: The company is an NYC based company trying to help people get involved in the fashion industry.

An artificial intelligence-based solution that helps doctors schedule patients, prioritize cases, and communicate with other providers. It can also pull patient data from other providers, like lab results or insurance status.

This startup is a network of creative professionals to teach others how to make their own media.

A startup that monitors the health of your home, automatically alerting you to issues you might otherwise let slide. The company uses a team of market researchers, data scientists and a network of professional home inspectors to make sure it can competently monitor the health of your home.

This startup helps people who are interested in purchasing homes find the best deals. The company helps people find homes by connecting them with licensed agents who can show them homes that are on the market.

An online platform that aggregates online reviews of products from around the web (from Amazon to Yelp)

InMotion is a ridesharing app that uses a mobile app and a GPS to detect when someone is traveling and offer them a ride, with the driver not knowing who is requesting the ride.

An online platform that uses AI to provide digital tutoring to K-12 students. The startup says it’s built a “supercomputer” to train digital tutors to help students with math and other subjects.

A company that launched in the UK in June 2019, with plans to expand to the US and Europe later in 2019. Their goal is to help “commercial real estate professionals” manage and optimize their buildings.

A startup that aggregates and analyzes information about the cost of living and quality of life in a location to help people decide where to move

A company that helps people pay for car rentals by tracking their driving habits and charging them for how much they drive each week

A startup that’s building a tool to help companies manage their employee benefits, giving them the ability to manage their benefits program themselves

A startup that is building a way to sell tickets to virtual events. Currently focused on ticketing for fitness events.

A real estate data company gathers and organizes data on thousands of homes for real estate agents and brokers. The startup also has a plan to help real estate agents track which homes are selling for the most money, based on their data.

A platform for connecting patients with doctors and hospitals through an easy-to-use app.

A company that connects people in small cities with jobs in big cities. It’s trying to solve what it sees as a low-density problem around the world.

A company that’s developed an automated system that helps companies choose their insurance carriers.

This is a platform for the financing and management of artists’ works. It’s for labels and artists to receive payments from their fans in advance and use it to work on new projects.

A company that makes notifications for mobile workers, helping them to stay in touch with clients and customers via text, email, and phone, and communicating with them in real time.

Connects businesses to customers in a more centralized and personalized way.

A platform for smart homes that puts together a bunch of different sensors into one device that can control all the lights and appliances.

The startup is a service that connects brands with people who are interested in working with them. The startup wants to create a digital marketplace for brands to find the talent to help them.

A startup that allows anyone to rent a table at popular festivals at a discounted rate.

Collaborative legal system that connects lawyers and clients to serve as a mediation tool.

A business that brings software development teams together in the same physical space to learn and work together, with a focus on the collaborative aspects of coding.

While the idea of a self-driving car might look like far-fetched science fiction, the reality is that the technology is already at work on the roads of the United States and Europe. However, it is still too expensive for consumers to access. The startup, which is still in stealth, is working to make the technology accessible at a consumer level.

This startup aims to make it easier for people to buy high-quality, custom-designed and custom-made wedding rings. The company wants to disrupt the traditional diamond industry and take a day-to-day approach to helping couples design their rings.

The startup’s goal is to build a $500 device that can be used to produce electricity from small amounts of water, such as rainwater.

A startup that helps companies manage the various vendors they use to deliver their product.

A startup that helps people learn how to write resumes and cover letters, and how to communicate with potential employers.

A micro-funding platform for entrepreneurs, reducing the cost of startup capital for high growth startups by providing a mechanism for investors to match their own funds with the startups they care about. The goal is to save startups money on the front end while generating real returns on the back end.

A way to transform a website into a mobile-friendly experience

A startup that “makes it easy for people to invest in the stock market,” assisting “mutual funds, hedge funds and other investment firms to manage their clients’ portfolios.”

The Cappasity app, which gives you a stereoscopic 3D view of various types of real world objects (like wine bottles, art, or landmarks).

A tool for developers to build, manage, and distribute digital applications. The company also offers a developer platform that lets users build, test, and deploy digital applications.

A B2B company that works with businesses to run payroll and health benefits, and helps them monetize their employees.

A healthcare company that’s working on a way to help doctors and nurses collaborate remotely.

A startup that helps developers and brands connect directly.

A startups platform for the cannabis industry that aims to make it easier for companies to create digital kiosks for consuming cannabis in the space.

As one of the first enterprise-focused venture-backed startups, Placed is building a platform that allows employers to create a database of their employees and their location, as well as see which of their employees they can “Placed” in the time they need to pay them.

A web-based dashboard for financial advisors to access real-time data and get instant notifications when something is wrong.

An e-commerce platform for speciality retailers, which worked with a B2B company to get a project off the ground.

A platform where people can share their photos and videos on social media.

A bit like Couchsurfing, but for food.

A brand new startup, not on YC, that focuses on providing toys to families with young children.

Non-profits in the U.S. and abroad rely on donors and volunteers to get their work done. Unfortunately, they aren’t always able to rely on these people to do what they promise. BitGive is a platform for non-profits that operates on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform lets non-profits raise money through cryptocurrency and use those funds to make donations to the causes they care about.

A tool for helping people manage their medical bills. The startup, which launched in June, wants to help people manage their medical debt by setting up a payment plan with their credit card company.

A startup that helps people compare deals from different credit card companies to get the best deal.

A company that takes your design, draws it on a screen, and then 3D prints it.

an app that helps people connect with the people who sign their social media posts with the hashtag “#BOOM.” It’s for people who want to bring attention to the topics they care about and make a name for themselves in the process.

A startup that wants to help connect businesses with people who need jobs. It uses social networks and other online networks to find candidates.

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A legal analytics startup that wants to help companies like Airbnb and Uber navigate regulations. The startup wants to provide data that would be required for an uber-like app to operate in a country.

A startup that lets users create a chart of their credit scores, which they can share with potential lenders when applying for an auto loan.

A platform that provides an online store for small retailers or artisans, selling products they created themselves. The startup is based in India and is looking to expand to other South Asian countries.

A startup that provides a workflow for salespeople in the auto insurance industry, automating the process of filling out and uploading claims.

A product that allows developers to easily build and launch a custom app from a single library, with a focus on scaling those apps across multiple platforms.

A startup that’s bringing Bitcoin into the physical world, with a prepaid debit card and a physical debit card. The founders want to make Bitcoin universally usable, and are building a physical card to use at stores, ATMs, and anywhere else.

This startup is creating a tool for small businesses to manage their finances by sending invoices and tracking payments.

A startup that makes it easy for people to find and hire freelancers to do tasks like build websites, edit and proofread documents, and more.

A self-serve platform for scheduling dental appointments across the country.

A startup that wants to provide “secure and private” chat rooms for people to meet up, without having to give out personal information.

A startup that focuses on data science training and consulting, as well as on helping building more data science practice.

Idea: This is a startup that makes a “smart” doorbell. It has a camera, a microphone, and a speaker. Users can talk to delivery and service providers through the doorbell, and the device can be used to monitor and intervene in domestic abuse cases.

A health insurance tool that helps people track their health needs and prescription usage and offers them a way to optimize their coverage.

A platform that allows you to share and view what you’ve purchased on social media. The startup wants to be the new way to share what you’re purchasing, though it’s still in the early stages of development.

A software platform that helps retailers connect with customers via the Facebook Messenger platform.

A tool that helps with “modernizing” legacy ERP systems.

A company that helps online businesses with online marketing by targeting their customers with specific video ads and other creative content

Predictive modeling technology that can help marketers understand where consumers are and what they’re interested in at any given time.

A networking app that uses the gamification of “leveling up” to get users to make new connections and grow their network.

A platform that lets you rent a bike for an hour or 24/48 hours.

A project management and collaboration platform for small businesses, which helps them document and share projects, track progress, and communicate with each other.

A photo-sharing service that uses AI to find the best “story” in a photo and recommend it to others. Users can also share their favorite stories with friends.

A startup based on the idea that what’s often lost in the process of buying a car is the opportunity to sell it. CarBifi helps make the process of selling a car easier, and could be used by dealers to help people decide if they want to keep their car for another year.

A platform that allows consumers to track their own energy consumption. Energy data is forwarded to the utility company, which then compares consumption patterns to historical patterns to determine energy consumption by individual home.

A software-as-a-service solution for HR teams that automates the onboarding process for new hires, improves communication between teams, and helps HR with employee onboarding.

A digital marketing agency built to help businesses compete on social media. The company wants to help businesses build lists, track engagement and build loyalty.

A startup that’s building an AI camera to replace the human one that’s on every camera.

Chargeback is an online platform that helps users dispute utility bills. It’s a B2B startup catering to utility companies. The founders hope to build a worldwide network of users.

A startup that wants to make it as easy as possible to build and deploy a web app, no programming required.

This startup wants to use machine learning to automatically write reports for companies. The startup has been operating since September and is now working with some mid-sized companies.

A startup that provides a suite of tools for managing and monitoring IT infrastructure, from network monitoring to backups.

A startup that wants to help customers find the best Uber and Lyft drivers, by letting them track their trips and view ratings and details about their drivers. They’re currently testing with 10 cities in the US, and plan to expand to the UK in the future.

Shopify POS software for retailers

A tool for building and selling websites. The startup is focused on making it easier for developers to create websites on the web. The company has just launched its beta version, which is limited to 500 people, and offering an invite-only experience in exchange for a $40 monthly subscription.

A platform for makers to connect with people who want to make their products. The company is funded by Maker’s Mark and Breyer’s among others.

A social network for the “smart, social, and stylish” user, built on the premise that everyone has a story to tell and that people will share that story if they’re beautiful.

A company that helps developers get their apps into the Apple App Store. The startup is a marketplace for “apps that are too specific or too niche to go through the regular process” and helps developers get their app approved in about 10 days.

A recurring revenue business that helps beauty professionals track and manage their clients, allowing them to earn more money.

This startup is building a messaging app for drivers. It allows drivers to rate their drivers, look for companies that are hiring, and even find new carpools.

This is a company that is building a hotel booking app.

A startup to help non-tech people get started in blockchain. The startup is looking to use its data and know-how to help people navigate the world of crypto assets.

A software-as-a-service, or SaaS, startup that enables companies to utilize software as a service. The company, which was founded in 2013, is building a platform that allows companies to build and deploy cloud-based applications with a drag-and-drop interface.

This startup is building an easy-to-use, low-cost home automation solution that lets users combine and control various smart devices to automate their home.

The app lets users choose what they want to see, and filters out content they don’t want to see.

A social engagement analytics tool that tells agencies how they’re doing on social media, and one of the first startups based in New York City to start working in social media.

A software company with a product called Ask, which is a platform that helps you connect with others who are in the same position you are.

This startup is building a product to answer the question: “How do I get my customers to engage with me more”

Building machine learning into the platform that allows users to create and edit their own recipes and share them with others.

A SaaS business that helps vet people before they get hired.

A startup that built an app that enables people to create custom messaging channels on WhatsApp. The startup, which has already raised funding from Y Combinator and other investors, is currently working with WhatsApp to enable its customers to sell premium products in their chat channels.

A startup that wants to help large publishers create “smart content” for their newsletters, building in-house tools for writers and editors.

A startup that helps people streamline their personal finances. The startup helps users organize their finances and get a budget. They currently have $6,000 in monthly revenue.

A platform for small business loans in Nigeria. The startup wants to offer loans within 24-hours in Lagos, Nigeria, by connecting underbanked micro and small businesses to banks.

A startup that connects users with a network of therapists across the US that can help with specific issues.

combines a food delivery service with a restaurant review app, helping consumers find the best place to eat and giving them all the information they need to make that decision.

This startup wants to bring the idea of a “robo-advisor” to retirement planning.

A startup that’s building a standalone app that makes it easier to use and manage a gym membership.

A mobile app that lets anyone access and manage their data without having to pay for a third-party service.

A startup where your friends can rent your couch for a few days

The company is building a platform for marketing campaigns for brands and agencies.

A real estate platform for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to buy and sell real estate.

A business that aims to help small-time beer makers have a better shot at getting a traditional distributor, by building a network of distributors and collectors who can help local brewers sell and promote their beers.

A platform to create custom, private, and secure online video chat rooms for a variety of uses, including recruitment, dating, and customer support.

A startup to help people better manage their money. The startup is trying to make budgeting and saving easier by helping users visualize their spending habits.

A mobile app for mobile marketers and companies to easily manage their ad campaigns.

There are also a handful of open source startups doing interesting things:

A restaurant-booking app that pairs with your favorite restaurant so you can just look at the menu and book a table. The company has raised $1.3M to date.

A company that tracks people’s location by using Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi signals.

A real estate site that provides a messaging platform and search tools to help agents find new clients and then negotiate deals with them.

A free VPN, or virtual private network, that doesn’t log information about its users.

Another online-to-offline ordering platform for the restaurant industry. The company allows restaurant operators to use their own brands and menus in their apps.

A startup that helps schools make more money from their online activities by directing the money that students spend on school supplies and other items to the school.

A solar panel installer that has a fixed-price model. The startup wants to offer a way for people to get solar panels that only pay for themselves after a certain threshold is met.

A company that helps companies with their email marketing. The startup sends targeted emails to the right people at the right time. For its first customer, it’s already generated more than $20,000 in revenue.

A credit card that rolls bills into one monthly payment.

This startup is building a tool to automatically find data entry errors and fix them before the document is sent to customers.

A company building solutions in the area of AI, applied to consumer marketing, is looking to help salespeople close deals by asking them questions. The startup’s founders say that it helps salespeople become more efficient at closing deals by asking questions like “What are you looking for” and “What are you not sure about”

A platform that answers the question of how to ensure that your employees can always access the files and tools that they need to be creative and productive.

A messaging app that is meant to make communication with people in your network easier. The app’s ability to create a personal map of people in your network helps you build relationships with the people you interact with most.

A startup that will help businesses secure their websites and email accounts with a two-factor authentication (2FA) system.

A digital product that allows users to create, share, and remix their favorite songs. The startup is working on its own proprietary technology that will help music creators and artists track their songs, and manage their royalties.

Pays developers to enter their apps into the App Store, and then gives them revenue share when they they are featured on the App Store.

A visual programming language designed for chip design, intended to allow engineers to quickly prototype and visualize their designs.

A company that’s building a toolset for developing mobile skills. The company wants to use machine learning to make sure that every mobile skill is customized for the user.

A startup that wants to help people buy, sell and ship items without having to worry about inventory. The startup is building a platform where you can list items for sale, then have them packaged and shipped directly to someone else.

This startup wants to help first-time home buyers who don’t have the money for down payments. It’s hoping to help people who have saved for years but still need a bit more cash to close on a home. It wants to take a few thousand dollars and give it to the buyer.

A product that uses a smartphone’s camera to scan the world around it, providing context and data in real time.

A new business accelerator based in Silicon Valley, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, that targets African-American tech founders with the goal of “helping them grow their businesses so they can help build the next generation of African-American tech leaders”.

A startup that wants to make it easy for organizations to find out what their data is worth to various other companies, and can help companies sell their data.

The team is building a platform for independent contractors, freelancers and consultants to find clients. The company says it has already raised $5 million in funding.

A startup that an online marketplace for VR powered by blockchain to reduce the transaction cost

A startup that is building an AI platform for making sure the right messages get to the right people at the right time.

A startup that makes and sells a $25 hardware device that plugs into your smartphone and lets you make maps of the world.

Want to add an app to your phone It’s simple. The company’s app is built on a white label platform that lets companies build their own branded apps for Android and iOS.

A platform that helps hospitals and other medical facilities send patients’ medical records to doctors and other medical staff. The company is trying to work with a dozen hospitals to deploy the solution.

An AI-powered assistant to help people with mental health issues. The startup is focused on helping users manage their depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.

A tool to help law firms manage their finances, allowing them to visualize their income and expenses.

A platform that lets you pay bills without a bank account, and without incurring large fees.

A video game that helps train children’s attention spans, by giving them a chance to master increasingly difficult levels

People are willing to pay up to $30 a month for pet insurance, but insurers are hesitant to offer it. PetPlan is trying to change that.

A digital bank account for Indian startups and SMBs looking to get a loan from non-banks.

A platform for finding healthcare and life insurance for people with pre-existing conditions.

Helping people get their library cards for the first time, and helping them renew them.

This startup is building an automated recipe-writing app that allows cooks to create recipes in a simple, drag-and-drop interface, and has hundreds of thousands of users. The startup wants to build the recipe writing platform for professional chefs, and is currently working on a way to scale it.

A company that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their sales force by helping them upgrade their CRM and marketing software on a weekly or monthly basis.

This table summarizes the news stories from each of these companies that have been covered by nationally syndicated outlets.

A “product discovery platform” for consumers, that helps them quickly find products that meet their needs.

A way to connect real estate agents with projects that need their services

A system that lets small businesses and individuals buy and sell their used goods securely.

The batch featured Y Combinator alumni and exits.

A software company that helps retailers track the items in their inventory and automatically ship orders.

A company that looks to build a new type of home security system that can link up with your smart home devices.

A free service that allows users to search online for medical appointments, and then book them via text

A SaaS platform that wants to help U.S. businesses compete with Chinese suppliers.

The company is focused on building a simple tool that helps users manage their personal finances, and has pivoted from an expense and bill tracker to a retirement planning tool.

A startup building a video app for retailers to help them work with customer-created videos.

A virtual reality game that lets you go on a wild adventure in the woods

A “global” coffee delivery service, launched in New York.

This startup helps employees gain access to their employer’s network and resources without logging in. It’s an employee portal that connects to the company’s own servers to provide a unified sign-on.

A video software company that lets users record and edit video in a web browser. The startup wants to make it easier to create and share videos without the hassle.

A startup that is a private social network for users to share their content

A startup that makes a tool for people to write down all the steps they need to take to complete a project

A way to give a bio on LinkedIn that includes your personality.

A tool to make it easy for people to get paid for their work, whether it’s for work on social media or work on the side, by automatically converting their time into credits that can be redeemed for real world goods and services

The startup wants to make it easy for anyone to learn how to code for the web, so they can build websites and apps.

A startup that is building a platform for sellers to help them manage their inventory, including inventory-management software, inventory-tracking software, and a mobile app.

A startup that helps creative teams work together on building their ideas.

A startup that wants to make it easier for communities to keep track of their infrastructure (pipes, water, etc).

A startup that’s building a platform for booking travel and hotel rooms. The company is aiming to compete with Expedia and Priceline.

A live-streaming platform for covering major events and political campaigns.

Currently looking for beta testers, but if you want to help build the app, you can sign up here .

An online tool for managing invoices and bills from other vendors.

An API wrapper for the search engine DuckDuckGo.

A new way to pay for parking. Rather than pay by the hour, you pay by the week on a pay-as-you-go basis. The idea is that it eliminates parking tickets and increases utilization, and the company says it’s already in over 500 cities and 30,000 businesses.

The online version of a brick-and-mortar store that sells new and different products. The startup currently operates out of 9 stores in 4 countries.

The startup is working on a tool to help companies find candidates in India and the US.

A global platform that allows companies to manage agents and suppliers in a central location. The company has offices in San Francisco, Mumbai, and London.

A platform for the visually impaired. The app translates text into an audio reading of that text, with the readout played on a phone’s loudspeaker. While the smartphone app is free to download, the smartphone’s loudspeaker is not.

Building a system to help the underbanked get basic financial services

A dental software startup, which wants to help dentists and hygienists better communicate with patients.

A B2B company that provides a “social-first” approach to business, simplifying the process of team collaboration and business communications.

A company that helps businesses in the US and Canada use “reloads” from clients in China to avoid paying Chinese taxes

A digital media distribution platform for emerging musicians

A platform for hardware startups to manage hardware production, shipping, and sales.

An HR software platform that aims to become a “one-stop shop for hiring and onboarding”. The startup is currently focused on HR and recruiting, but they have plans to expand into other areas of the business.

A personal assistant that helps people save money.

A startup that makes it easier to deal with the risks and costs associated with running a business. The company aims to help business owners save time and money, and to make it easier to access professional services.

A free HR software platform that makes it easier for companies to manage HR processes by automating them.

A portfolio of services that helps people get the best possible price for their home. The startup brings together agents and home inspectors to help you get the best price for your home.

A group of professional marketers and designers with a background in creative agencies and marketing startups.

FinTech startup that allows people to send payments via text message.

A credit card and prepaid card for parents to use for their children’s allowance.

This company is building a portal for employers and talent, allowing employers to post jobs and talent to multiple sites with a single login.

A way to send money to friends and family in India, via a bank account, without official documentation.

A platform for buying, selling and renting cars. It’s currently working on getting insurance and other features built in.

A platform for renters to find, discover, and book the best way to get from A to B via car, bus, train, or bike.

A product for online learning platforms, like Coursera and Udacity, that connects every student and tutor face to face. It aims to simplify the e-learning experience for beginners and help students avoid the “ beginner’s paradox”.

With its Sparrow for Facebook, the company lets people use Facebook as an ad platform for their business. Sparrow lets businesses target ads at specific people based on their Facebook profile and interests.

A “business intelligence” tool for government agencies that aggregates and visualizes data from disparate sources so they can make better decisions and make the best use of limited resources.

This company is building a “chatbot-based sales force” that helps customers with their orders, and to track their orders once they’ve placed one.

A platform that helps users take pictures and videos in VR, allowing them to share them on social media.

A way for companies and startups to build their own crowdfunding platforms for crowdfunding without having to deal with the headache of building a website.

A startup that helps users organize their calendars, including reminding them about things, creating to-do lists, and setting up events

A mobile app that helps colleges and universities stay connected and in touch with alumni.

A startup that lets you create and store a personalized list of favorite TV shows, films, and actors.

A new way to track and personalize the brands, products, and marketing strategies that work best for their customers.

A tool for automating and streamlining the many steps it takes to launch a startup. Currently focused on the US, they want to help companies “bootstrap faster, raise better and get funded more easily.”

This company wants to use visual AI to help retail and restaurant managers visualize operations, from seasonal patterns to labor costs, and make informed decisions.

A blockchain-based cryptocurrency for conference organizers and sponsors.

A company that builds software for the insurance industry that allows agents to provide quotes and capture policy details.

A startup that aims to help companies automate the hiring process for tech positions. The startup has raised $1.4M.

A tool for managing your domain registrar, domain names, and hosting.

A startup that’s using artificial intelligence and blockchain to build a better way for homeowners to manage their homeowners insurance.

This is a platform for students to sign up for courses at their college. The company offers an online service through which students can track their courses and take them at their own pace.

An ML-powered sales and marketing tool that helps companies connect with their customers.

This fashion startup wants to build a fashion service for men who are looking for fashion advice.

The creators of this startup want to bring the world a universal, open-source, and non-profit search engine.

A tool that helps small businesses, specifically those in the restaurant industry, manage and pay all of their in-house expenses, from utilities to payroll. In the US, their core customers are restaurants.

A platform for users to connect with “experts” about their symptoms, so they have a list of potential people to consult with.

A startup that automatically syncs your phone and Facebook contacts.

A “virtual assistant” for finding, hiring and managing restaurant staff.

In February 2018, Clearbit was acquired for an undisclosed amount.

A startup that helps musicians with royalty payments, offering a browser plugin, a mobile app and a white label solution for artists and labels.

A “artificial intelligence” system that allows homeowners to program lighting, music, and other home automation features via voice commands.

In the past year, we've seen a number of startups offer their own way to manage contextual data across multiple platforms. These startups are often built to help people avoid the hassle of the various data silos that exist across your various cloud-based applications.

The startup is building an application to find, book, and take group trips to the same locations.

A company that allows users to create and market “smart” contracts. They can be used to create asset-backed securities, loans and bonds, and can be made to automatically pay out to users if certain conditions are met.

An AI-powered employee engagement tool.

A platform for sharing and storing household items, with an app that helps manage them

The startup is using app design and marketing startups to build an app that helps investors find value in publicly traded companies.

A company that helps companies and individuals better manage their devices by using AI to monitor and manage their data.

A payments company that lets companies with a bunch of different bank accounts collect payments on their platform.

SaaS company that helps businesses automate their business administration. The company charges 1.5% per transaction, with a yearly cap of $19,999.

A startup that wants to help people avoid getting hit by cars. Their app, which is now in the US, has had over 1,000 downloads.

A software startup that helps people save money by switching their energy provider. It doesn’t actually provide energy, but helps people find deals on the market. It has a consumer-facing site, but its backend is handled by a network of “energy brokers”.

This company is building a platform for ride-sharing companies to work directly with customers.

A tool that helps companies monitor their employees’ smartphone usage, with the ability to monitor their location, time spent on their device, and screen time for each employee.

A “feeling thermometer” for everyone, to help people know when someone is feeling backed into a corner

A company that helps businesses buy back unused inventory from itself, then resell those that are still in good condition.

This startup wants to help business owners communicate with customers in a private group in real time.

This is a mobile payments startup that allows users to use mobile payments on their mobile devices and pay for things like bus fares and groceries. They’re also looking to develop a payments API that would allow merchants to accept payments without a mobile device.

A digital tool for businesses to make their data work better together.

A tool to help businesses convert old school paper invoices and receipts into digital ones.

Idea: this is a design tool to help businesses automate and streamline their customer support processes

A startup that helps you book a doctor’s appointment at the same time you book a hotel, reimbursing the doctor if you can’t make it in.

A tool for helping people manage their families’ electric bills.

Startups can either use a SaaS service or build their own website, but the latter typically takes longer and costs more. The company makes it easy for startups to deploy a fully-functional website within 48 hours for $1,000

The team behind E-commerce Startup Factory is pitching to help businesses that have grown but need to scale their operations. They are looking for startups that have launched a business, but are not yet ready for expansion.

A company that helps people choose the right credit card to use. It’s based on the premise that most people don’t realize that the card they already have is probably the right one for them.

A digital platform that allows you to share your interests with the rest of the world, so you can put your skills to use and earn money.

A machine learning platform that can predict cancer in the pancreas better than the current gold standard.

If interested, please send us an updated resume to careers@goeasy.co.

A startup that’s building a tool that helps brands identify influencers on social media and use them to promote their products. The company has $1.6mm in funding and has partnered with brands like Adidas to boost sales with the help of influencers.

A platform to let people buy and sell spare parts to each other, with an app that lets users do it.

A platform for short-term rentals that includes an automatic payment system, insurance and the ability to have check-in/check-out times set.

This startup wants to make it easy to put your favorite photos on a physical slide that can be hung on a wall. It’s like a physical version of Pinterest, but for your own photos.

A startup that allows you to make a purchase using your fingerprint. The startup wants to make payments dead simple.

This startup is building a digital loyalty program for hotels that aims to cut down on fraud.

A startup that wants to help advertisers and marketers build out email campaigns and see the results of those campaigns in real-time, instead of relying on a separate tool.

A platform for developing video games and other digital content. They're hiring a CEO to grow the company and have plans to expand from the Bay to LA, New York and beyond.

A startup that wants to become the LinkedIn for freelancers. The company has already managed to find 4,000+ people to join the site and has a $1 million dollar seed round in their bank account.

A B2B company that helps brand managers create higher quality voice-to-voice campaigns.

A startup that is building a website for people to find products that are the exact same thing but are cheaper on Amazon.

A company that provides an online marketplace for independent contractors to sell their services.

A tool for hotels to keep track of their assets and track down items that are lost, stolen, or damaged. The startup is already working with hotels in Brazil and Colombia and wants to expand to other Latin American markets as well.

A company that offers a digital insurance platform for startups and SMBs alike.

A clothing company and platform that allows users to create and sell custom-fitted clothes online.

An on-demand e-commerce platform for retail and wholesale customers (e.g. restaurants, bars, and importers/exporters).

OnBoard is a service that helps businesses capture data from their customers visiting their physical stores and then automate the collection of that data.

A distributed worldwide network of unsung heroes, who can perform tasks in the name of the US government, like an Uber for the US military. First launched in 2016, it’s already deployed on more than 100 bases and is partnered with more than 100 federal agencies, including the US Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of State.

A digital marketing agency that handles client projects, from design to implementation.

A technology platform that helps businesses identify new markets, customers, and business opportunities.

A tool for bringing together the various employees in the supply chain of a product. The platform is meant to help manage the complexity of supply chains, which include multiple suppliers, and to keep a closer eye on the supply chain.

A social network for artists, based on a platform that allows artists to connect with buyers and build portfolios, allowing them to sell and license their works.

A platform that connects you to a network of freelance designers and developers to create a product for you. The company also works with your team to provide you with a product roadmap and a recommended development timeline.

A startup that allows parents to track their kids’ and teens’ activities. The startup is currently focused on South Africa.

The company is building a platform to help startups connect with investors and build a community of backers. The startup is working with Y Combinator and other investors to get more startups to pitch at YC.

A digital prescription for a doctor’s handwritten notes, meant to make the experience more efficient and streamlined.

A gift card company that helps restaurants and retailers transfer money between countries.

A startup that wants to capture the beauty and lifestyle of cities through photography.

A novel way to send money internationally using the blockchain.

A cloud-based accounting and financial management platform for startups.

A digital platform for freelancers to find and bid on jobs.

A ride-hailing service that provides on-demand access to the car, not the driver.

Solve a consumer problem by using the power of the internet to make the shopping experience faster and cheaper.

A startup that makes it easy to manage and track things by using your voice or mobile device.

In the next several years, traditional brick and mortar stores might start to be replaced by online shops, like Zara and H&M. But instead of going to an actual store and waiting in line, online shoppers can order and pick up products from home in mere minutes. Joy is building a way for online stores to connect with customers and handle inventory for them, giving shoppers with no employees the experience of shopping in person.

A SaaS-based service for retailers that helps them manage their shipping.

A tool that helps to communicate between teams, an information sharing platform that allows users to get real-time feedback and respond to it as a team.

A startup that wants to build a mobile app for managing a team, serving as a social network for project managers. The company says its goal is to help avoid the “fragmentation of group communications.”

A company that wants to help drivers get inexpensive fuel and drivers’ education through its website and mobile app.

A company that built a database of all the world’s airports and helps navigate customers through their travels.

A company that uses AI to help make low-cost, high-quality face-to-face video calls.

A startup that wants to build a search engine for the web that’s not linked to a single company by default.

A subscription-based loyalty card company that helps people earn reward points and redeem them for real goods and experiences (like $20 off your next coffee)

This startup lets employers create employee referral programs and sells the referral fees. The startup’s customers include companies like Wayfair, Zillow, and American Express.

A “social network for artists”. The startup is working on building a “multimedia platform for entrepreneurs, engineers, and creatives”.

A virtual assistant for medical billing and coding. The startup wants to become “the first AI-powered, cloud-based, and machine-learning enabled billing platform”.

A startup tackling the problems with credit cards.

A way to screen prospective employees, and allow them to interact with the candidate without sending an email.

“A startup that implements fintech software in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia, India, and China.”

A fleet management software that helps companies manage their fleet of cars. The startup’s software is in use in over 50 companies.

A startup that enables organizations to get their peer groups to review each other’s work. Currently supporting nearly 2,000 groups of over 25,000 members.

A mobile application that helps companies create new products. The app helps companies create new products without any coding knowledge.

A company that’s building a platform for small businesses to provide themselves with policy support and help with compliance. The company wants to make it easy for small businesses to do their own taxes and manage their own benefits, including health care benefits.

A startup designed to help companies with their payroll, HR and insurance needs.

We've had plenty of success with travel apps that make it easier to find flights and hotels. Now with Spring, we're doing the same for car rental.

A company that offers career services to people in the fashion industry. The startup wants to help people get job interviews, find mentors, and improve their careers.

In addition to the startup projects listed here, some startups have been incubated at Techstars in its program.

A company that designs, manufactures, and sells wireless sensors that can be used to detect motion, temperature, and moisture in homes and offices.

A paid research platform that allows users to learn about their competitors and competitors' products.

An AI tool that helps teams design their next product. The startup’s first product is the “customer journey” creation tool. It aims to speed up the product design process by automating the creation of user journeys.

A startup that provides a toolset to help small businesses track their sales and expenses. The startup offers a suite of apps to help small businesses manage their cash flow, track their expenses, and better manage their sales.

AI-based automated email marketing that helps people manage their email marketing.

A software platform that helps businesses build their own e-commerce websites for their own brands. Fincube is a subscription service that offers a store manager with a community of designers, developers, and marketers to build a site.

A platform that lets you create a virtual town and allow users to create their own personal town and use the platform to play games, share stories, and interact with the town.

A startup that helps farmers in Japan make more money from their crops by helping them get better prices for their vegetables.

A platform that helps business owners build a sales funnel to sell more products and services.

A startup designed to help people organize and manage their personal finances at all different stages of life.

This startup is building an app that helps people plan their next moves in the event of a natural disaster.

The startup provides a platform for people to design apps that allows users to draw on the screen, taking advantage of the fact that they’re drawing with a touch screen.

A company that makes a customizable app to help employees manage their personal finances, with tools like a budgeting planner and a personal finance tracker.

A cloud-based property management software platform for investment property managers, providing a suite of management tools to manage the properties, like accounting, maintenance, and marketing.

A startup that aims to simplify the creation of email marketing campaigns. A typical campaign might include dozens of email addresses, personalization, and a list of recipients. The startup empowers marketers to create a single email campaign, and include as many personalized variables as they want.

A way to reduce costs and improve reliability for businesses using a device that uses radio to communicate with handheld devices and computers. The startup works with companies like Blackberry, Samsung, and Microsoft.

A startup that wants to let users track their credit scores, health, and other financial data

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to go to restaurants with them and make suggestions about the menu

A platform that aims to bring “authentic, personalized experiences to the masses.” The company’s first product, a chatbot called Rosa, is meant to help take on the Facebook Messenger bot monopoly and is already used by a number of companies.

This startup is building an online platform that gives sellers a way to sell their wares without needing to handle payment processing or risk taking customer service.

A startup that provides a database of construction workers, helping contractors find and hire the best employees for their projects.

A platform that helps taxi companies, especially in the US, find drivers by matching them to passengers

A way to categorize furniture based on their style and color.

A system for putting the power of machine learning into a more accessible tool.

A software company trying to solve the problems with digital payments in developing markets, where mobile banking is still a novelty. The startup wants to provide a solution that’s simple, easy, and secure.

A “crowd-funded credit card” for people with bad credit.

The startup wants to make it easier to buy and sell tickets to events, particularly sporting events.

A Brazilian startup that wants to make it easier for people to share their meals (and with whom) with family and friends.

A company that makes a facial recognition app that can automatically detect and categorize facial expressions.

a startup that wants to do what most people think of as “time management”, in a way that’s more user-friendly and not really “time management”.

iaidigital is building a digital tool that helps cities better manage their streets and sidewalks. The startup’s software can take a photo of a pothole and instantly notify the city of the problem.

A digital “wallet” for rideshare drivers (that’s UberX, Lyft, etc.) to pay expenses like deductibles, gas and maintenance. The digital wallet eventually will allow drivers to take rides anywhere and pay their expenses without having to have cash on hand.

Cloud-native messaging platform, aiming to provide a unified architecture across different platforms and messaging apps, as well as unified encryption.

A platform that allows brands to design packages for retailers to sell. The company wants to be a one-stop shop for e-commerce fulfillment.

This app enables consumers to access over 50,000 books by reading on their mobile device. It’s meant to be a library of all the books a reader has ever read, and all the books they'd like to read.

A payments company that connects merchants with payment processing services.

A small business that makes an app that helps people find their closest and cheapest pizza restaurant.

A platform for people to register for events and discover events as they are happening

Help large companies save money on marketing campaigns by letting them create their own micro-websites on the Shopify platform, with custom-designed pages and a store location.

A health insurance provider that uses AI to help people apply for health insurance.

A digital assistant for the blind and visually impaired. The startup plans to make all of its products mobile and accessible through various apps.

Deliveroo is a food delivery service that allows restaurants to use their app to take orders for their customers, with the option to customize the meal or package it for individual delivery. It already has 2.4 million users within the UK and a service that is growing more than 100% year-over-year.

A financial services startup focusing on the needs of business owners, who often struggle to deal with taxes and other financial demands.

A startup that helps hospitals find cheaper alternatives to the expensive equipment they use in the ER.

The startup wants to teach kids to cook and make meals more accessible to people who don’t have time to cook themselves.

A startup that provides a marketplace for businesses to buy and sell excess freight capacity

A startup that wants to help people sell more stuff on Facebook. It wants to build a plugin for Facebook that allows sellers to add a call-to-action to their ad to get someone to call them.

A medical travel insurance company that provides coverage to patients who need to travel for medical services.

A startup that makes physical badges that let people sign in to apps.

A platform for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to manage patient records. MediCloud provides a secure way for medical staff to access and manage patient records. Clients include Kaiser Permanente, Partners HealthCare, and the University of Washington.

A startup whose goal is to integrate sensors and analytics for smart cities. The startup wants to lower the costs of providing Internet to cities by providing infrastructure, hardware and software.

A startup that helps people understand their credit score and how to use it to their advantage

A wearable device for detecting and tracking the movements of patients by their bedside.

A tool that helps university students use social media to share and learn.

An AI chatbot which answers questions on Quora, a question and answer site. It’s still early days for Quora’s bot, which answers around 1,000 questions a day on topics like “How to study” and “How to organize your life”.

A company that helps small- and medium-sized businesses juggle their online and offline needs. Their first product, a digital signage platform, just hit the market and has more than 5,000 customers.

Builds a platform for developers to build, test and deploy AI applications.

The company’s founders have been called "the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the Indian startup scene" by a reporter in Quartz.

This startup wants to build a toolset to help create a global network for small farmers.

A startup that brings the benefits of a “quiet studio” to people who live in buildings that aren’t as soundproofed. The company’s co-founder, who was previously a producer for The BBC, says he uses the studio for “super-advanced brain science and psychology research”.

This startup is building a platform to help journalists write better. It’s best for longer writing, and it lets you know which writing styles and topics are best for you.

A startup that helps employees take a break from work and get paid.

A new kind of search engine that gets results from dozens of sources and instantly returns more relevant results to users. Its search engine can also be connected to digital assistants like Alexa or Google Home

A startup for visualizing data from the web and building apps with it.

Crypto, a decentralized app store that allows developers to build apps, add them to a marketplace, and then monetize them via an airdrop.

A startup that helps people optimize their email lists with personalized emails and messages

A way to manage the global supply chain with a network that connects businesses and factories directly.

A $1-per-month app that helps users track their carbon footprint. Love.co is focused on helping users understand the environmental impacts of their daily habits, such as their food purchases, travel choices, and their energy usage.

A “social media and content software platform” that helps users create, manage and distribute content.

A product that helps people remember names and faces

An on-demand laundry service for residential, commercial and industrial clients, primarily in the UK.

A secure messaging platform for work email

A startup that builds web and mobile apps for startups, and a company that helps startups raise money.

A “programmatic” ad platform that changes the way ads are bought and sold, letting companies create ads in real-time, without having to have an existing relationship with a publisher. The startup has raised $4.3 million to date, and has plans for an IPO in the next year.

A project management tool for teams.

A startup that uses 3d printing to create custom constructed homes for people who need homes quickly

This company is helping people to give their money to the right charity. It uses an algorithm to evaluate charities to identify the best options, and has already donated over $1,000,000.

A platform to give users a “just in time” grocery delivery in a few minutes in a city where in many places a delivery can be a two hour wait.

A company that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their sales force by helping them upgrade their CRM and marketing software on a weekly or monthly basis.

Builds and sells tools to help create and manage campaigns that highlight what’s going on in local communities. These could range from the neighborhood watch group to a local community group trying to raise funds for a new park.

A platform that lets companies develop chatbots and have them respond to customer questions without any need for developers.

A “web as a service” product that allows users to create and sell their own online courses. The startup is currently rated 6.0 on the web-hosting site SitePoint.

A SaaS and on-premise solution for companies looking to manage their employee time and attendance.

A platform to better manage customers’ data, giving companies the ability to see and share data with customers, anonymize data and share it with third parties, collect data streams to offer rebates, and more.

A tool that helps companies in the green economy get a better understanding of their carbon footprint.

The startup wants to use AI to scour the web for posts, contacts, and images of famous people and then match them to people who would benefit from learning from what they’ve achieved. It’s a kind of crowdsourced social media, with a revenue share model.

L2L is building a platform that connects people who are looking to buy or sell properties to those who are looking to rent. The company wants to build a marketplace where people can buy and sell homes without going through the hassle of a real estate agent. The company also has a deal with Century 21 in the Philippines to build a realty app that can help people sell and buy real estate.

A startup that helps customers rent out their places on Airbnb. The startup has already partnered with 50 properties in New York and San Francisco, and is looking to expand in other markets as well.

This startup is building software to help food factories better manage their production lines. The startup wants to help manufacturers reduce waste and improve the quality of the product.

A software developer platform that makes it easier for anyone to build a video game

A startup that allows people to track their sleep to improve sleep quality, health, and productivity.

This is an online service that aims to help people monetize their social media content.

A startup making an AI-enabled digital assistant. They recently launched an AI chatbot that can help you set up video calls on Slack and has plans to launch it on other chat platforms.

A mobile health company that wants to use data to help customers live healthier lives. The startup is working to develop a mobile health platform that allows people to track and analyze their health data, with the goal of helping people live healthier lives.

A startup that makes a device to help people sleep better It’s built like a thermos with a spout that releases humidified air

An e-commerce platform for zoos and aquariums to sell souvenirs to customers. The startup is working with three aquariums in the United States, and has had over $360,000 in sales in its first year.

A startup that offers a platform for engineers to make their own tools, or to acquire/buy off third party tools. The company says it’s already has a few clients paying for access to it’s engineering platform.

Build a business that brings the customer service model to the cannabis industry, and helps the industry better serve their customers by creating a network that supports the needs of both the consumer and the industry.

Idea: A startup that provides a service that helps people who are having a birthday party to grow their network and find more friends

A company that creates digital prints from the images of people, who upload their own images and the company’s prints are then rendered by using a computer vision. The prints can be sold as prints, clothing, or art.

A platform that allows users to create personal profiles for their connections on LinkedIn, then use that information to suggest connections who may be a good fit for them.

An automated system for testing web application performance.

A b2b cloud-based platform for building and managing customer relationships, helping businesses to better interact with their customers and increase customer loyalty.

A startup that helps you make sense of your finances and get new clients.

“A cross between LinkedIn and Twitter”, used by businesses to post job listings and engage with employees.

A start-up that sends supplies to remote islands with the help of drones

A tool for schools to manage their student records. It’s a feature-rich K-12 management system, with a reporting dashboard, time tracking, and grading for administrators.

A startup that connects shoppers with crowdsourced personal shoppers. It has been acquired by Groupon.

A platform that helps people get paid for taking photos of food, which is a common use case for many businesses.

A $500+ tool that measures and tracks weight loss and the overall health of a person. The service is built to help people with diabetes and other health conditions, and tracks things like blood glucose and weight.

A tool to help create video magic effects like fire effects and text on images. The startup wants to enable content creators to create better results with more limited tools.

A startup that takes the candidate’s resume and brings it to life with videos, interviews, and more.

A $1 million prize for startups creating tools for early stage companies to manage their growth

A directory for finding the nearest dry cleaner, restaurant, and other types of businesses. The company launched in Boston with the goal of landing in New York and Los Angeles by December.

A platform for exchanging data between different sectors.

A “B2B SaaS tool for connecting your business with customers in real time,” allowing companies to automate one-on-one transactions with customers.

A startup in the UK that is building a way for companies to sell and buy spare parts from one another.

A new way to create personalized cards, with a variety of materials printed on the front. It’s a way to create business cards that are more meaningful than traditional business cards.

A way to organize users in a company’s social network so they can follow each others’ projects.

A software startup that will provide web-based curricula for online courses.

An automated way to automatically trade in your car by the end of its lease.

For developers, this is an app that lets you see all your projects from the same place.

Spacetrip is building a way to book space on a rocket. The startup is aiming to make a point-to-point orbital spaceflight booking service a reality, with a fully operational rocket by 2020.

A platform that personalizes the way users experience their inboxes. It’s a way for email users to organize their inbox and make it easier for them to find what they need.

A startup that provides a service for people who are interested in learning how to do their own home repairs

This startup wants to replace the traditional broker model with a commission-free, network-based system that brings together buyers and sellers. The startup says it already has several dozen clients.

LOWCOUNTRY is a startup building a live-action reenactment of the history of the Appalachian Mountains. The company is a production company that shoots reenactments, and it is building a storytelling platform to pair with them.

A messaging app that compresses video to send over text and images, meaning users can send longer videos over shorter messages.

A digital assistant for Real Estate Agents. The startup’s reasoning is that online agents are more popular than in-person agents, but the latter are still more profitable.

A startup that wants to build a platform for physical goods merchants to sell online and receive payment in real time.

A freelance marketplace for coders, where developers and entrepreneurs can find each other to work on projects.

A startup that turns waste into compost, fertilizer, and fuel through a patented process.

A tool for managing and promoting content across multiple social networks.

A platform that helps managers collect and think about feedback.

A company that helps the homeless get jobs. This startup helps them find jobs by helping them get onto the web.

Something for artists to show off their work.

A file-syncing app that works across multiple platforms, enabling users to sync files across all of their devices.

A platform that helps combat counterfeit products, with an API that merchants can integrate into their own e-commerce platforms. It’s mostly for the fashion industry, although it may expand to other markets.

A platform for homeowners looking to sell their homes, allowing them to easily list their properties for sale and hire a virtual agent to show the property to interested buyers.

An AI system that helps content marketers predict how their content will perform and optimize its placement within their marketing campaigns, based on data from their own previous content.

Shopify’s first acquisition, Blinkist is a tablet app that allows users to listen to any book in the world, in real time, for free.

The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to receive financing. It’s a mobile lending platform, using the same algorithms as big banks, but with lower interest rates and higher standards for creditworthiness.

A social network for small businesses in Brazil, targeting both mom and pop shops and large enterprises.

A platform that provides an online platform for influencers to build audiences and earn revenue from their work.

The company’s first product is a suite of LED bulbs that can be controlled via a smartphone app. The bulbs are built with a Wi-Fi enabled hub and have a built-in motion sensor allowing the user to turn the light on and off, dim, or change its color.

A subreddit with 3,000 subscribers that discusses the best and worst of the emerging tech industry, and the companies that they’re working for.

The startup has built a software platform that lets its customers create, manage, and publish road-side signs in multiple languages. The company, which was founded in 2012, has raised $4.5 million in funding, including a $1.5 million investment from Digital Garage in August 2017.

A company that helps people see and improve their relationships by analyzing their text messages.

A ride-hailing app that offers discounts to frequent riders, with the idea being to provide a service that’s cheaper than the existing competition.

This is a tool for managing your social media presence. It’s a bit like social media management firm Social.com, but for social media.

A tool that automates some of the manual steps involved in running a company. It’s designed to help companies like restaurants and hotels manage expenses.

Online content creation and distribution company that has helped over 250,000 artists and entrepreneurs connect with brands like Nike, Dell, Mercedez-Benz, and Amazon.

A digital media studio that helps brands create top-quality videos by combining story-telling and media technology. The startup is looking to create a platform that is easy for people to use, allowing for professional-level video production at a minimal cost.

An API for funding startups from the world’s largest banks.

A startup focused on making education more accessible to international students.

A company that helps developers build and host their own websites, with a focus on security, speed, and usability.

A tool for eating healthy food in the workplace.

A Facebook Messenger bot that helps you order takeout or delivery without having to call a restaurant.

Crowdfunding and equity crowdfunding for equity-based companies, which it has branded as “crowdcheque.”

A platform for sharing and discovering new perspectives on the world, the tuneup is a collaborative platform for journalists, storytellers, and artists to share their work.

A SaaS startup for accounting that provides a single-source, centralized platform for managing all of your accounting needs.

A tool for schools that helps teachers plan and manage their school’s communication. The company says it’s already used by over 1,000 schools and is growing fast.

Customer support chatbot that helps support teams take care of incoming support requests.

A company that connects customers with work from contractors and freelancers.

A digital platform that helps companies manage their cash flow. The startup has built a platform that can help companies manage cash flow with their suppliers, so they can get paid on time and prevent overages.

A video chat app for mobile devices

A tool to automatically create and distribute landing pages.

A startup that wants to help businesses more easily collaborate, share, and delegate work from all over the world. The company is building a desktop app and a mobile app for all different stakeholders to use for project management.

A startup that is a chatbot that provides short-term mental health support

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to find lost furniture that you left on the side of the road for pickup

A software platform that helps purveyors of web content (like publishers) sell their inventory to advertisers.

The founder of this startup wants to do for video marketing what Spotify has done for music.

A B2B company that matches service providers with customers and helps them find the right partners.

A team of veterans and veterans’ family members that helps people who’ve served in the military with their health needs.

A platform for social networking on the go that allows you to use your phone as a keychain, thus saving you the hassle of having to carry a wallet and a phone.

A startup that helps you find and book parking. The startup wants to help people find parking at a garage, and book it via their app.

A platform for managing and tracking mobile devices, primarily using Python.

A mobile, mobile-first bank designed to handle all of a customer's financial needs from a single app.

A platform for building your own online community, from the ground up.

The 2017 batch was selected based on their work in the field, their potential to drive positive social impact, and their fit with Y Combinator’s mission. The following companies were selected:

A startup that helps teams manage their finances by helping them look at the big picture and prioritize their spending.

A startup that allows you to quickly connect to a unique person or company by linking your email address to the other person’s.

Fusing data and design to help you manage your life easier.

Well-being is a startup that wants to help people manage their stress with an artificial intelligence-enabled app.

A new startup that helps students learn how to do their own repairs by teaching them the basics of repair.

A startup that’s creating an “of-the-moment coupon” marketplace. The startup wants to build a marketplace that allows users to buy and sell coupons that are valid for events happening that day, and then print them out at home.

A platform for trading cryptocurrencies. The company has raised $1.3 million from investors including Y Combinator, Foundation Capital and Founders Fund. The company has raised $2.2 million total.

A new way to get paid for writing things, especially for writers who don’t want to write things for pay.

A platform for the sharing economy that allows users to book and pay for services from items that are in their possession.

A platform for creating and managing events for artists. The idea is to bring all the different parts of the artist’s life under one roof.

This is a startup making it easier for digital publishers to build interactive content.

A startup that helps people to write down their ideas and turn them into a reality

A startup that helps businesses manage their risk and compliance exposure with regulatory reporting. The company is currently in “batch”, with plans to launch on March 1, but has already signed up 10 clients.

A startup that’s building a product that helps manage and use all of the tools you use to stay productive.

A way to automatically sell your old stuff on eBay, using big data to determine what you’re likely to buy again.

A startup that says it is an “unconference” that brings together top startup teams to help them connect, learn and grow. The first Unconference was held in San Francisco in early June.

Social commerce startup that offers a way for shops to translate their product descriptions into multiple languages, and allows users to easily connect with the businesses that sell the items.

An online marketplace for home cooks, enabling online customers to make online orders of prepared meals that they can pick up at their own home.

An online platform that helps photographers create content for their clients. The startup offers clients a white label platform that allows for content curation, social media management and other services and helps photographers and their clients work together.

An online-only membership service that allows users to order things that are on-demand, by an app, to be delivered by a local professional.

A financial software company that works with a lot of banks to provide technology solutions for those banks to use.

A product that helps users create a “digital CV”, allowing them to share information about their background and skills in order to find better jobs.

A provisioning company that allows for free lunch, coffee, and snacks for employees.

A platform for connecting doctors and patients. The startup wants to help patients get the medical services they need, without having to go to the doctor or spend money.

A startup building a platform to help employers optimize lower-level employee management tasks, like scheduling and time tracking.

A toolkit for employees to manage their tools, allowing them to manage their tools better.

“a mobile software application that enables users to create, manage and share their virtual avatar, and communicate with others through text, voice and video”.

A startup for freelancers to offer their services, with everything from programming to writing.

A startup that helps companies with their onboarding process by providing a free website that employees can use to quickly register for healthcare coverage.

A startup that allows you to pay your bills from your phone. It’s meant to be a more cost-effective option than traditional billing software. It’s being built for small businesses, but the founders plan to expand to larger clients in the future.

A company that provides consultant services to companies in need of help getting their employees trained on topics like cyber security or diversity.

An AI app that helps music producers and multi-taskers in the music industry.

A startup that helps consumers use Lyft in lieu of owning a car in order to save money.

A SaaS platform that connects businesses with a variety of contract workers, such as cleaners, drivers, and more.

The startup is working with a range of retailers, from Ikea to J.Crew, to build out an AI-powered recommendation system.

A high-end, high-margin business-to-business e-commerce platform for professional services that started off as a B2B tool for lawyers but has since expanded to business-to-consumer.

Trunkable wants to build a web-based home that can be rented as a vacation home.

A crowdsourced site that lets users review local restaurants, then make reservations and order takeout.

A platform for people to sell their used cars online. When a buyer agrees to buy your car, the app will handle the paperwork and payment.

A startup founded by former Uber employees to help Uber drivers connect with riders through a network of private messaging

A platform for visualizing and managing business data in a way that helps businesses be more efficient.

This startup, based in the Netherlands, builds a method of 3D printing that they claim is “environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.”

A company that provides the top digital marketing agency in the world with a digital presence outside of their clients’ websites.

A startup that’s building a service that let’s you easily make a customized, pre-made collar to dress up your dog in. The startup wants to make it easy to give your dog a unique outfit.

An open-source platform and data storage for enterprise use

A company that helps businesses make customer feedback more actionable.

A system that lets people take pictures of their clothing and upload the images to a database for tailoring. When a customer goes to buy something, the system compares the images to the existing inventory to recommend what’s closest to what they’re looking for.

A way for auto renters to select and book a vehicle directly with an insurer.

One-on-one tutoring for Indian school kids for standardized tests. The startup has a $3,000 monthly price point for up to five students, and it plans to expand to other markets in the next year.

A food delivery platform for small businesses that is focused on reducing the financial burden of running a brick and mortar restaurant. It aims to lower the cost of running a restaurant by providing the owner with the tools to order their own food and have it delivered. The company has raised $10 million in funding.

The startup wants to be a marketplace for people to sell their used stuff. Its focus is on new-to-market products, but founders say they’d be open to selling used products as well.

A platform that helps people manage their personal finances and balance their budgets, like Mint.

A company that promises to make travel booking and finding flights as easy as posting a free, ad-supported message on Facebook. The startup has raised $40 million in funding.

Idea: A 3D audio startup that is trying to make podcasting more immersive by using binaural audio. The app has a pretty strong take on the future of podcasting, and its founder says that the company is profitable.

This startup is building a way to build a network of people that can provide professional services to companies. The service is meant to be a platform for freelancers that is also a paying client.

A startup that helps people find a way to pay for college that is better than what they are paying now, provided they can handle the debt on their own

An AI-powered platform to allow businesses to manage social and digital marketing activities from one place.

A startup that allows people to sell their used books, and it’s helped 20,000 people make $100,000.

A CTO partner to help engineers manage and scale their businesses.

A product that aims to use machine learning to predict when things like a bag of chips or a soda will go bad and sell it to local grocers at a lower price to keep fresh foods on the shelves.

A platform that will use AI to manage your data and help you solve problems.

A social network for all of the robot hobbies out there including 3D printing, futurism, robotics, and more.

A startup that trains drivers for rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft.

A data science platform that enables people to simplify and visualize data, with a focus on AI for data science.

A system that helps manage Google Adwords campaigns with real time analytics.

The company built a “crowd-sourced” platform to help people with their financial planning.

A system that helps you track your health by giving you insights about how and why you’re sick.

A startup that helps college students get a better idea of their financial aid package.

The app allows users to see how others have chosen to be paid by brands by analyzing the links, comments, and emails in their inbox.

A digital marketing platform that lets companies target users based on their social media activity.

This startup focuses on the monetary value of freelance work.

A mobile app for finding parking and other services near your destination, with a built-in contact list to save you time. It’s inspired by Uber’s surge pricing and lets you set your own price and availability as well.

This startup is looking to make it easier for people to share their ride requests, whether it be a ride with friends, a ride to the airport, or a ride to a restaurant.

A startup that wants to do the work of a labor union for a company, helping its employees organize and fight for better pay and benefits on their own terms.

A product that helps transport companies find and hire drivers, with a focus on the U.S. trucking market. The startup is marketed towards companies that already use a third-party recruitment or “driver matching” service.

A startup that enables organizations to get their peer groups to review each other’s work. Currently supporting nearly 2,000 groups of over 25,000 members.

A startup that wants to help onboarders and salespeople collaborate more effectively.

This startup is building a new kind of fitness tracker that uses a smartphone app to track a person’s activity, then sends the data to a wearable device that’s connected to an account. The team is looking to launch in the second half of 2020.

A London-based startup that’s building a new kind of currency that is designed with the goal of being able to be used globally (currently in beta). The company is working with Mastercard to implement a new type of currency that can be used anywhere in the world.

A startup that allows you to get access to a private concierge while you’re in a public place. The app wants to make it easier for people to get private help when they need it.

A startup in San Francisco that wants to help you track your data on your phone, through a “personal dashboard” that helps you understand and use data to improve your health. The startup’s primary goal is to build an app that will help people decide what medical procedures they want to have done today and in the future, and then be able to track the status of those procedures through an app.

A way to let people invest in the art they love

A startup that connects consumers with their favorite TV shows in a more intuitive way.

A startup for artists that maps out the best places to sell their art.

An online lending platform that lowers the costs of borrowing for micro-finance companies.

A blockchain-based payment platform for digital content. The startup wants to replace the current system of content being bought and sold with a new one that’s decentralized, with long-term protection for the content and payment for publishers.

A platform that helps brands build Instagram ads without needing to program or hire an engineer.

A startup that creates a directory of local home repair experts so people can find someone to do small home repairs

A startup that’s building a way to make it easier for people to waste time on social media. The startup wants to make social media less addictive and more impactful.

A startup for hiring online tutors, which helps people receive personal attention from instructors.

A startup that helps employers create more effective management training programs with a central location to view, track and manage employee performance data. They’re currently in private beta.

A company that wants to take the hassle of finding and booking a car service out of the equation and let you order a ride from your smartphone.

A platform that helps users find nearby ping pong tables, buy tables, and host matches.

A tool that helps people create products that can be purchased through their site. It’s like a marketplace but instead of buying products, you’re offering them to people as a service. It’s a model similar to TaskRabbit or Uber.

A startup that provides a service for people to make a video of themselves and then have it lip-synced in a different video (like in the video of Will Smith in the song “Summertime”)

A car-sharing service with a fleet of cars based on demand. The startup recently launched in Washington D.C.

A company that is building out an autonomous vehicle software platform for companies, to help them test and develop their autonomous vehicle technology.

A startup that builds a digital curriculum for kids on topics like computer science, programming, and robotics.

A B2B company that aims to offer an alternative to payroll services that is based around the value employees bring to companies.

An online campaign management platform that helps companies monitor and steer the conversation around their products, products that might otherwise get drowned out in the noise of social media.

A startup that wants to take the friction out of the process of purchasing a home. Instead of going through a bank, you can do all the paperwork online.

A tool for helping journalists track news stories across different platforms and different sources.

A San Francisco startup aiming to become the first credit union to offer free checking and savings accounts to any member of the U.S. Armed Forces.

A group of founders from NYC, San Francisco and Mumbai came together to solve the challenge of securing data in the cloud. The startup provides a way to encrypt and decrypt files and data in the cloud that’s compliant with HIPAA and GDPR standards.

A company that provides a platform for clients to build their own websites, including hosting and domain registration, with a focus on clients who need a site for a specific purpose.

A company that helps small businesses connect with insurers and other partners to manage their risk and reduce their costs.

A startup that aims to bring a universal translator to the masses.

A digital health company building a bio-monitoring system that collects medical data from sensors embedded in a patient’s body.

This company wants to help you “make your own damn cheese”, with a 3D printer that will create your own cheese.

A digital platform for the home, with an API to help developers build apps and integrate with smart home devices.

A startup that provides a service to help people with their website (ie I pay you $50 and you fix my website)

A marketing platform that helps brands to drive more effective, targeted, and measurable in-store marketing campaigns. The startup is based in San Francisco and has been running since 2017.

A software platform for a number of industries including journalism that helps journalists learn from each other.

A startup that is building a platform for sellers to help them manage their inventory, including inventory-management software, inventory-tracking software, and a mobile app.

A startup that creates a new kind of smart home audio experience Their idea is to create a “high quality, yet affordable, audio experience”

A social network for subscribers of the New York Times to share content and engage with one another.

A platform for finding and sharing data sets around sports, with a focus on finding statistical data sets.

A company that helps filmmakers and production companies track their work from beginning to end

A cooperative that helps small-to-medium sized businesses with a number of issues. From customer service to marketing and HR, The Cooperative can help small-to-medium sized businesses with a number of issues.

This startup is building an “app store for white-label content marketing” for companies. It’s called “branded content” and has a lot of the same features as Pinterest’s official app store.

A startup that wants to make AI more accessible to everyone. The company is building an interface that helps non-experts get started with AI and learn the basics of machine learning.

A startup that wants to bring the feeling of a “welcome wagon” to the internet.

Open source software for machine learning and neural networks.

A new company that makes it easy for people to order from their favorite restaurants while they’re away, and have them delivered. It started in 2012 and announced a $1.3 million Series A in 2017. They’re growing fast.

A startup that helps companies “sell their data”. The startup uses machine learning to automate the process of extracting insights from business transactions.

This startup is building a system to help engineers understand the best ways to program to particular chips.

A startup that wants to build a library of apps for more than 40 languages, so that people can learn a language more quickly and be able to take advantage of the web.

A company that helps investors and real estate agents track investment performance.

A company that delivers dumplings on demand

A platform that helps companies find new recruits. It’s a version of LinkedIn for job seekers, with a focus on the needs of local companies.

A company that’s building a way for organizations to manage their safety oversight. Their service is built on a system that helps organizations keep track of employees and their licenses, and it can be integrated with other safety technologies like cameras and sensors.

A company that is creating “smart doorbells” that can help you know when people are around your house and send them text messages.

A startup that allows you to use your phone as a virtual assistant. It works with Siri, and allows you to ask questions and get answers (“How tall is Beyonce”)

A company that claims to offer on-demand, personalized health coaching.

A fully-managed IoT platform for smart connected home devices, which allow people to create and manage connected home devices from their smartphones.

A startup that tries to get people to take more time off from work to pursue personal interests, such as by creating a way to track a user’s vacation days.

A hardware startup that takes a radically different approach to computer security. Rather than trying to block malware, the company says it can help protect against it by learning to predict what types of attacks are likely. It’s meant to work with mobile devices, and has a deal with Facebook to “secure” the social network’s billion users.

An on-demand marketplace for your home, pitched as a more effective, more satisfying alternative to Airbnb.

A startup that provides a financial advisor service for freelancers and employees, which allows them to manage their own investments, doing their own research and managing their own portfolio, in exchange for a small commission.

A program for companies to manage their employees’ health plans. The startup is using the program to help companies with 14,000 employees connect with their employees’ health plans.

A startup that builds mobile apps for restaurant owners, including data and analytics, marketing and lead management.

The startup is building a platform for trusted patient reviews

A digital assistant for doctors, who can pull information in from their computer and phone and give their patients a real-time response.

A startup that connects freelance designers with companies who need branding work done

This startup is building a platform to help connect patients with doctors. Patients can search for medical professionals, and get a one-on-one consultation over video for free.

The startup helps recruiters from different backgrounds find the right talent to fill a job. It currently has a $1.3 million seed round, and is looking to scale after a recent push.

A startup that creates webinars for startups that help them “scale” faster.

A product that helps people who are having trouble finding a plumber to find one they’re happy with.

This startup is focusing on a “growth subscription” for B2B companies that allows them to have access to their customers’ data in real-time and analyze it for business intelligence.

The startup is trying to help startups in the US bridge the gap between when they want to hire their next employee and when they’re ready to start interviewing them.

A startup that helps those who are unable to access their paychecks or bank accounts in the US send remittances.

The founders of an AI-powered dating app want to use their product as a platform for investors to invest in AI startups.

A project to help health care professionals gain experience with industry standard health IT tools.

A digital tool to help affiliates better manage their Instagram account by giving them analytics on the performance of their ads and followers.

A startup that helps you find your friends in real-time on your phone, and groups them with similar interests.

A startup that is building a ride-hail app for parents to get access to child care facilities and pick up kids from school. Previously, parents had to go to a parent-only school.

A startup that sends flowers to a person's phone. The startup, which launched in May, has partnered with over 50 retailers and plans to expand into more.

company that creates and sells 3D printed furniture.

This app is designed to help you organize your favorite shows, so you don’t miss an episode or be constantly reminded of a series you haven’t watched in a while.

A startup that helps connect farmers with restaurants and retailers, allowing them to order food on a real-time basis.

A private, secure messaging app that allows you to communicate with people who have already invited you.

An AI app that helps music producers and multi-taskers in the music industry.

A startup that uses machine learning to create a platform that helps companies track and manage their data to make better decisions.

This company is building a mobile app that helps people find and take care of other people’s pets. It’s currently in closed beta and is offered through a partnership with Rover.com.

A wearable technology company, based in San Francisco, that makes apparel and accessories that measure in real time and track your activity. It has some of the lowest prices in the industry, and is a contender with the other big players.

This startup is building a platform that helps brands to create a distinctive voice in the digital landscape, bringing a familiar brand experience to a digital platform. It’s basically a quiz app that allows brands to build their own personality profiles to bring to the web.

A secure messaging platform for work email

A startup that allows companies to buy and sell unused medical supplies, generating extra income from unused supplies.

A company that helps small businesses create marketing collateral without using their own design team

A company that wants to build out a platform that sorts through the millions of products that consumers buy each year and match them to the right retailers. The startup is building the backend infrastructure and is looking to build out the backend, customer management and analytics teams.

A tool for helping contractors bid on construction projects. It’s already on the job in Spain.

A cloud-based peer-to-peer insurance platform, which is already in use in the automotive industry. The startup wants to be the only place where clients can buy insurance online, in person, or on the phone.

A platform for managing, tracking and hosting video content for e-learning. You upload your video, and Farmako does the rest.

A B2B marketplace for networks & software.

Placement is a platform that allows people to hire home care workers by assessing their needs and then matching them with a professional who can help. Placement also allows users to manage their care-giver’s pay, schedule and benefits.

A startup that collects data about office space and lets landlords and tenants decide if both would be a good fit.

As an online continuing education course for lawyers, this startup is hoping to enable higher education for lawyers without charging tuition.

PowerMeter is a smart meter data company. They want to provide “a data-driven mobile application for consumers and businesses that uses data from the smart meters to provide insights about power consumption, cost savings, and energy savings on a monthly and annual basis.”

An API that allows companies to create, update, and share user profiles across platforms.

A startup that’s building a platform for independent contractors to receive and pay invoices.

This startup is trying to help companies stop using Gmail as an inefficient way to communicate with customers and employees.

A startup that combines data from the web and from people’s cell phones to help organizations understand what kind of power they need and how to get it.

Helping local restaurants get better access to food delivery services, with the goal of scaling delivery to a national level

A way to let people crowdsource their ideas (like Kickstarter) from the comfort of their home, where they can focus on the creative process without having to deal with logistics.

This startup is building tools to enable communication between teams and individuals across companies, using a unified interface.

A company that helps small businesses replace their paper and cardboard filing cabinets with digital files. The company says it works with over 1,200 businesses and has signed up Wells Fargo as a customer.

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center have created a 3-D printed, low-cost, wearable camera that can “see” in the infrared spectrum and uses a thermal-sensing camera to detect objects.

A startup that helps users prioritize their goals based on how much time they have to spend on them.

A “smart wallet” that uses crypto to make purchases and payments. The startup has raised $11.5M to date.

Chef-less cooking services for startups, including a menu delivery service.

This startup is working on a way to power electric cars with solar energy.

A startup for companies that want to be like Foursquare, but for building companies.

A tool for looking up information about the public sector (like hospitals), with the goal of helping patients get the best care for their specific ailments.

Notememe is a tool for public speaking that is designed to help you remember what you talked about. It’s a visual, like a PowerPoint, with the slides you’ve spoken on organized into the order you’ve spoken.

A B2B business that helps companies with software development and technology recruitment.

A platform that helps employers manage remote workers. It also provides HR services.

A startup that aims to solve the problem of re-marketing in higher education recruiting by building a way to help schools replace the need for multiple applications.

A tool for restaurants and bars to manage their supply chain and food inventory.

A startup that makes it easy for inbound tour operators to find the most relevant hotels and guesthouses for their clients.

This is a company that makes a mechanical keyboard that is fully programmable with over a million possible keyboard configurations as well as being hackable. The company is now shipping pre-order keyboards.

A peer-to-peer lending platform that connects lenders and borrowers.

A platform that lets you integrate data from trusted sources with your website.

A startup that curates, stores and cross-sells expert knowledge on a single topic. It’s a website that also has a mobile version that curates and cross-sells expert knowledge on a single topic with a focus on finance.

A platform that aims to help businesses organize the chaotic nature of the way they manage their employee data.

A collectible card gaming platform for mobile.

A startup for selling and buying used computers from other people. Users can sell their old computers in exchange for cash or trade them in for newer ones. The company provides a platform to help people sell their old computers and also offers a buy credit option.

A data visualization platform that aims to provide the most accurate and complete reports for credit risk. The idea is to provide a dashboard for banks to track risk, allowing them to make better lending decisions and cut down on bad loans.

A startup that helps people find jobs online, with the help of a system called "In The Loop"

A web-based platform for real estate agents. The company wants to help agents outsource their listings and find the right client to buy or rent their property.

A digital assistant that helps users reach out to a network of professionals for help with projects.

A system meant to help employees manage their health insurance. This includes everything from a smartphone app to help people navigate the process to a website for people to compare single-pay service options.

A futuristic TV platform, where people can interact with their TV just as they would a computer, and the TV responds to their commands. The company has built a prototype and is looking to raise funds.

A model that takes care of a company’s employees and their families as they wait for serious medical treatment

A startup that helps people set up and manage their retirement accounts, with a goal of saving everyone in their 20s and 30s $100,000 over the course of their working lifetime.

A startup that offers a way to purchase discounted goods, with the added benefit of being able to see what other people bought there too.

A way for people to take a photo of their food, and see where it came from and what was in it. It’s already up and running, and aims to keep customers up to date on the food they eat.

A platform that makes it easy for people to find new jobs and internships, connecting employers and job seekers through the use of social networks.

A micro-city and coworking space, which will include a cafe, a bar, a rooftop garden, and a dance floor.

This is a platform for securing private data. The startup aims to make it easier to manage, store and share sensitive data.

A B2B service for the financial industry that helps banks identify potential customers and understand their spending habits.

A product development platform for businesses, originally built for car and boat vendors.

A startup that helps users find local businesses to buy their products from, and allows businesses to ask users to review their products.

This company wants to build a platform where every household can be equipped with a low-cost device that can detect imminent threats like fires and carbon monoxide.

A startup that helps people find the best, most reliable care for themselves and their loved ones. The company is looking to partner with employers and large patient-specific care providers to improve the quality of care, while also being a resource for medical professionals.

A B2B company that helps companies find startups in other countries that can help them with prototyping or product development.

A digital bank account for all of a person’s financial needs, from remittances to loans to credit cards.

A startup that provides on-demand classes for people who want to learn a new skill but don’t have time to take classes

A new kind of “under-the-radar” startup that creates and maintains “micro-cities” for renters, like Uber for apartment complexes.

A startup that allows patients to find doctors via key questions and behavioral screening. The site is free and lets users see doctors with their primary care information.

Builds an alternative to the traditional car buying process.

An AI-powered assistant that provides financial advice to users based on their goals, ideas, and personal interests.

A startup that allows you to create, manage, and share your own audio and video podcasts. The startup wants to compete with the likes of Anchor and Pocket Casts by making it easy for the average user to create a podcast.

New startup that aims to take the pain out of student loan payments, using the debt to create scholarships for low-income students.

The founders of this app want to build a tool for managing digital feedback. Instead of emailing feedback to a manager or leaving a comment on a blog post, users can send feedback directly to a specific employee, and the app’s smart algorithms will automatically highlight the most important parts of each comment so the employee can see it, reply to it, and move on without having to read through unnecessary comments.

A startup that sells a tool that helps people manage their finances (especially for people with ADHD) A startup that provides a service to help people of Chinese heritage learn about their family’s history

A platform that helps people find and join classes, workshops, group-mentorship sessions and more

A startup that makes your car’s dashboard more stylish through software.

A "smart home monitoring" startup focused on energy efficiency. It's currently in a pre-launch stage, with a device that allows users to remotely turn off lights and lock doors with a smartphone, and the company says it has acquired $2.4 million in seed funding

A tool for recruiters, that lets them upload their resume to a centralized network and have it automatically filtered to candidates that are a good match for a given job.

This startup is building a portable bio-sensor that can measure drugs in the body through non-invasive blood tests. The sensors are worn like a necklace and are powered by a single AAA battery.

A startup that provides financial planning for high net worth individuals and families, and which has worked with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Fidelity.

A company that builds VR solutions for things like 3D sculpting.

Artsy is building a peer-to-peer platform that leverages the best art curators and artists to help connect buyers with sellers and sellers with buyers. The startup is building an artist marketplace that allows artists to connect directly to buyers on the platform.

A mobile app that helps people manage their money. It helps users set up a budget, track their spending, and get advice from personal finance experts. It’s currently in private beta.

A tool that helps companies with the creation of new sign-up forms.

A social media news aggregator for local news.

A startup whose goal is to integrate sensors and analytics for smart cities. The startup wants to lower the costs of providing Internet to cities by providing infrastructure, hardware and software.

A tool to help people get their doctor to prescribe cheaper medications by checking Medicare cost data and comparing it to what a doctor’s office would charge for that medication.

A startup that’s built a platform for a new type of app that runs on users’ smart phones.

This healthcare startup is creating a web-based platform to help people with chronic pain connect with medical professionals who can prescribe pain medication.

A platform for helping customers shop online while managing their financial data

A simple online platform with a large focus on shopping for children, with the company focusing on “turbo-charging the physical literacy of parents”.

A platform to allow users to export and import their Facebook posts, photos and videos, making it easier to share updates, stories, and lives with friends on Facebook.

A startup that helps small businesses increase their productivity by allowing them to schedule time off in advance. The startup is currently focused on the US.

A software company that partners with restaurants to provide delivery and catering services. The startup has signed up more than 3,000 restaurants and is profitable.

A “financial services for the modern age” platform for the US that’s “designed to meet the needs of the emerging millennial generation”.

A “tame” version of the Snapchat app, focused on bringing its features to one’s phone.

This startup is building an interface to help doctors write prescriptions for their patients, letting them input all the information into one place and automatically send out the order over the phone.

A real-time collaboration software that helps teams collaborate better.

A B2B SaaS app that allows small businesses to automate their marketing and sales processes.

Works with retailers to provide VR-based training for customer service and merchandising

Smartphone accessory that lets you put on another phone’s screen to give it the appearance of a bigger one.

A startup that helps companies adjust their business operations to be more profitable, with a focus on "lean operations" that can optimize use of resources and improve efficiency.

A startup that wants to cut down on the “excess” of onboarding customers, and help companies automate the onboarding process through clear use of the right tools.

A platform for making and selling jewelry and creative crafts

A platform for helping students better understand college loans, with an interactive quiz that helps students create a personalized repayment plan.

A startup that builds small, easy-to-use robots for the home

A startup that curates fitness classes and offers personalized training plans

The startup sells a subscription-based email inbox that reduces the noise, clutter, and time it takes to respond to email, enabling users to focus on the important stuff.

A startup platform for students to find tutors, teachers, and other school professionals. It has already been featured on the Showcase Stage of Startup Battlefield.

A tool that helps local governments run better.

A startup to help companies of all types keep track of all their employees’ health insurance coverage, from birth control to prescriptions to doctor’s appointments.

A startup that provides a service where they will send a greeting card to someone on your behalf

A credit card and prepaid card for parents to use for their children’s allowance.

A platform that connects people who need help with people who can help them. They’ve partnered with cities, governments, and nonprofits.

A web-based platform for finding, comparing, and editing photos on websites.

A startup that lets people create online resumes, store them online, and export them to other formats like Craigslist.

A podcast network with a focus on “unscripted” storytelling, by people who are not professional journalists. It’s designed to free creative people from the pressure of telling stories they’ve been told to tell.

A personal care brand that’s starting to expand into other categories, including skincare, makeup, and haircare.

A startup that uses a combination of AI and machine learning to help companies make sense of the growing amount of data they are trying to collect, and come up with actionable insights. Currently working on a pilot in the UK.

A software platform for hospitals to manage patient data, allowing patients to store their medical records online, view them, share them with doctors and nurses, and access their records for wellness purposes.

A startup that offers a platform for building micro-communities online. The company wants to bring the community dynamic of crowdfunding to communities in which people have a shared interest.

A machine-learning platform that helps companies find people qualified for their job.

The company offers a platform where you can order and deliver a meal from a restaurant you’ve never heard of before.

A platform for sharing and sharing experiences, taking the “sharing economy” to a new level. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences.

This startup asks the question: “What if you could make your kitchen more efficient” If you want to save money on electricity, the company says, you could make your kitchen more efficient, cut down on your food waste, save time, and eat healthier.

A personal insurance product that aims to give people more control over their medical data and privacy.

A virtual assistant that can handle your “to do” list while you’re away.

A startup that uses machine learning to help brands identify the best time to post to their social media channels.

A company that is building digital furniture for kids, with a focus on children under the age of six.

This startup is selling a credit card for online shoppers with a low interest rate, and pays users back only when they charge things. The startup is based in the UK, has a team of five, and has already closed $1 million in funding from investors.

A startup that wants to use AI to create bespoke, cost-effective car insurance policies based on an agent’s driving history

A portable, solar-powered “newsroom” for journalists covering breaking news.

Talent Management solutions for HR teams. The startup is building a platform for HR teams that helps them build a stack of applications that can focus on specific functions.

The B2B company wants to “help companies make better decisions with less data”, using machine learning to analyze data to get more insights. The startup is focused on a few industries, starting with financial services.

A B2B company that helps companies manage their supply chains. It’s a cloud-based platform that lets companies track and manage their inventory, which will be increasingly important as the retail sector as a whole moves towards web-based systems.

A startup that allows individuals with mental health or other health problems to connect with mental health professional.

A startup that cuts fees for employers by allowing them to use their existing employee data (things like their social security number, for instance,) to verify who’s legally allowed to work in the US.

A startupging platform that lets users manage multiple blogs in one place.

A software platform that allows producers to create, edit, and distribute videos, audio, photos, and text.

The startup helps businesses streamline their operations, process payments, and cut down on errors by using AI-powered chatbots.

A startup for parents to easily compare the top pediatricians in their neighborhood

A startup that wants to help users collaborate with each other on projects by having each user share and comment on a single file.

An API for building and maintaining websites, with tools for building and managing the code.

This startup wants to be the Uber of medical waste, connecting different waste disposal companies for pickup and billing.

A company that sells “the world’s first wearable data science platform”.

A tool for helping people in the U.S. find and book a babysitter.

The startup is building a data-driven platform to help companies measure their marketing effectiveness and ROI. They say they’ve already built a $200,000 product — but they’re looking for $75,000 to build out the data science.

A startup that will take any video and allow its creators to port it to any of the top 30 mobile phone manufacturers, using a digital-rights-management-free model. The company has already built an app that allows anyone to convert any video to any phone.

A monthly subscription service that helps users connect with potential customers and grow their businesses.

A way for the user to design and customize his or her own Lego creation.

A startup that lets you order a batch of custom-made grilled cheese or pizza from 24 different restaurants, and have them delivered to your door. The startup is still in the R&D phase, but hopes to launch the service early next year.

A digital assistant that provides a list of things to do when you get home on the weekends.

A company that makes biodegradable water bottles. The startup wants to build a business around breaking a water bottle back down into its water-carbon components.

A startup for users to share their photos, with the goal of creating social media content that can be a source of revenue for them.

A startup that uses “crunchtime” to help companies and teams get things done. The startup’s core product is a web application that helps teams manage tasks and shares status updates.

A tool that helps companies set up predictive maintenance timers for their equipment.

This startup is creating a package of services for small business owners that handle all of their financial needs. It includes accounting, taxes, payroll, and more.

Algorithms help make the auto insurance system cheaper, faster and more effective.

A tool for web developers to build custom fonts, cutting down on the time it takes to get a font approved for use on a website.

A way for doctors to order medical supplies online to make sure they’re stocked up on the medication they need. It’s currently in its seed round with 2 doctors and plans to launch in India in the second half of 2020.

A UK-based startup that aims to increase the number of people who book and

The company is a free software project that helps people maintain their health by giving them access to a large, searchable database of medical information. It was started around a decade ago as a personal health web site, but has since evolved into a global health information platform.

A $1,000 “social mobility investment fund” for people living in poverty in the US.

A tool for optimizing product designs for ease of manufacturing.

A platform for building and managing employee performance reviews, based on a survey of the year’s most successful companies.

In October 2015, an app called "SparkPeople" was released by a team of developers from the University of Cincinnati. The app allows users to track their daily health and fitness goals, as well as providing personal and social health tips.

A startup that helps companies easily take interactive surveys with more than 100,000 customers. It’s currently working with 30 clients including Proctor & Gamble and Gap.

Idea: The first 100% free, open source code collaboration platform The company has raised $47 million in venture capital and has over 1000 users

A crowdsourced security analyst team.

A digital groceries store that integrates with other apps and allows users to view their purchases from their phones.

A company that takes your old gadgets and recycles them into new ones

A social network that connects people based on an interest in getting involved in local community events. For instance, if you’re interested in helping to organize a neighborhood watch program, you can connect with people in your neighborhood who are interested in getting involved.

A platform for the “ultimate workout” in a virtual 3D environment. Its goal is to connect people to top fitness trainers who can offer the latest training techniques and advice.

A startup that uses AI to tailor your work environment by taking the psychology of your job and the company you work for into account. TRACE, which launched in early 2019, has found that when you work in a “high-energy” job, your brain feels more alert and focused, but that when you’re in a “low-energy” job, your brain feels more relaxed and unfocused.

idea: this startup is building what they call the “first global, mobile-first, social news platform”.

A multi-purpose tool for the home which can be used to monitor or control connected devices in the house

A digital health care platform that helps patients track their medications.

Women in the US are being paid less than men for the same work, but the Equal Pay Pledge aims to change that. The startup is building a tracking platform to show how much companies are paying their employees. Currently it has over 1,000 organizations signed up to report their numbers.

A B2B business that lists items for sale on the web, allowing users to take advantage of the millions of people who are selling on Amazon. The startup has already made a $100,000 sale.

A company that sells modular home accessories designed to make building a home more efficient.

A fintech startup in the Philadelphia area that has a platform that lets users compare loans to see the best deal

Startup to connect buyers with retailers in a more efficient way, by allowing them to order products online and have them delivered to their home.

Convey is a startup that uses machine learning to help retail and other companies identify places where potential customers are shopping online and offering those companies a share of the purchase in return for data.

A startup that wants to build a “personal newsroom” for journalists. It allows users to curate news based on their interests and set up alerts for breaking news.

Let’s call this app the “Uber for food”. This is a restaurant-on-demand service that can be triggered via a mobile app.

A startup that helps make your everyday tasks more efficient, such as scheduling a meeting, creating a shopping list, or tracking a package.

An ecommerce platform for food that’s grown organically and locally with a focus on freshness and sustainability.

The startup is building a tool that will allow sales teams to better understand and manage customers. Storyline works to allow sales reps to better understand their prospects, their sales processes and their customers.

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to donate to nonprofits. The startup takes the hassle out of processing donations by replacing the 3-5% processing fee that many nonprofits pay for online donations with a 2.5% processing fee.

This startup wants to make the world’s most durable tablet, one that can withstand a drop from a boat in the ocean, or a puddle of coffee.

An education-focused startup that takes a simple approach to teaching kids to code.

A company that wants to help companies reduce their carbon footprint by using solar power for their offices. The startup has raised $20 million in funding.

A dating app that connects singles in the same city. The app works with the two users to schedule a date, with a free trial of the paid service. The founders are former Google employees.

A digital marketing agency built to help businesses compete on social media. The company wants to help businesses build lists, track engagement and build loyalty.

This startup wants to help professionals manage their workload and collaborate with colleagues. It’s a tool that helps you set your priorities, and helps you delegate tasks.

A startup that helps people get health insurance by selling them insurance for their household. In the past two years, the startup has signed up more than 100,000 subscribers.

A tool for helping companies to ensure that the people they do business with are following the law.

A white-label tool for helping brands build branded websites, which they then sell to their customers.

A startup that makes it easy to run a business in the United States and Mexico, working with an in-country agent to help you get all the proper permits and licenses.

A self-serving AI bot that will learn how to cook its own meal.

A platform that enables companies to talk to their customers in a more natural and personal way.

A company that’s building custom software for small to mid-sized companies to manage their creative processes.

A way to remotely monitor/control smart technologies using a mobile app.

An iOS app that helps users find the closest, fastest, and cheapest rides to their destination. The app uses pricing data from Uber, Lyft, and a few other companies and then puts all those estimates in one place.

A startup that provides insights on the health of a company’s workforce, ranging from work-related stress to nutrition and sleep, and converting them into targeted interventions like health coaching, education, and more.

The company’s founders say they’re working with over 3,000 small businesses in the UK.

A tool for helping people get a feel for the cost and saving potential of solar panels.

The startup is building an online platform for parents to discuss child development. The product is a combination of the company’s existing online platform with its new podcasting platform.

A product that aims to help users learn to code and build mobile apps without having to pay for expensive programming classes. The startup is backed by Y Combinator, which is investing $6.5M in the company.

A software developer’s startup is building an online platform that helps developers have greater visibility into their projects. The company’s CEO says it solves the problem of having to constantly check in on progress of each project.

InMotion is a ridesharing app that uses a mobile app and a GPS to detect when someone is traveling and offer them a ride, with the driver not knowing who is requesting the ride.

A tool for learning the complicated and technical skills needed to code a website.

P2P platform that enables car owners to rent out their vehicles to others. The startup is looking to build a network of users that would rent out their cars when they are not using them.

A program that helps women’s shelters provide birth control to women who need it.

A startup for premium coaching. The startup is building a platform that connects people with professional coaches and business consultants.

A software company that simplifies and automates the process of creating and managing financial reports.

A startup for selling used cars, selling cars wholesale and at a lower cost than dealerships. The startup has partnered with dealerships in the US already, and is adding an auto insurance product to help offset the cost of rental cars for customers.

Has a single, simple UI for a variety of sales and marketing tasks, such as creating a Google AdWords campaign. Currently on a $500,000 seed round.

A startup that allows people to share their Spotify playlists with friends, and other users to add them to their own playlists. The startup is also building a music recommendation service.

A secure, encrypted platform for file sharing in the workplace and outside of it.

A startup that allows users to quickly and easily create, edit and publish content, currently focused on travel.

The startup wants to store and share original fashion and beauty imagery from photographers and brands.

A community-based crowdfunding platform for artists

A monthly subscription service meant to help you save for retirement.

A company that provides a service for businesses to be able to book private gigs with musicians, comedians, and artists.

A startup that helps entrepreneurs in San Francisco to get paid faster, and in the process, cuts down on fraud and lost payments.

A team of fundraisers that want to help companies with their fundraising needs by offering free fundraising services. They charge companies based on the time spent on fundraising, with a maximum of $500 per month.

Platform for making apps in the form of games, by having users build a game from a set of instructions.

An SaaS data platform meant to help companies understand what types of influencers they should be advertising to and which ads are effective.

A platform to help you build and sell products on Amazon.com.

A tool to help lawyers review, draft, and manage legal documents.

A platform that helps insurance companies negotiate lower premiums with patients.

Idea: An API for domain name registration

A food delivery app for Lyft drivers in the US that is focused on curbside ordering and deliveries. The startup was founded in March, and will begin operations in May.

A coffee subscription service for the food industry, where the coffee is made from beans from the farm to cup by the service.

This startup is building a professional networking platform for the wedding planning industry.

A startup for vintage clothes, with a focus on selling vintage clothes to customers who can’t find what they want in stores.

A cloud-based software as a service platform for supply chain execution.

Canvas is a new type of digital canvas for creating digital objects. Users can create a design or pattern using images and use it as a template for an object. It has four different types of canvas with different features, and the startup says it will be releasing another in the future.

A group messaging app that uses artificial intelligence to make group calls more efficient, offering suggestions on topics to discuss. It’s currently available in beta.

Startup that provides a platform to help companies identify and correct racially biased hiring practices, and a tool to help companies avoid them. The company, which launched in February of 2019, was founded by the chief diversity officer of Barclays.

A student-driven airline that’s been in operation for less than a month. Its founders are trying to get the airline off the ground by asking students to fund the startup, but now they’re asking for $25,000 to accelerate growth.

A cloud-based system for managing healthcare claims and data for a range of customers and providers. Ivol is a startup that uses AI to sort claims for insurers and then helps physicians and hospitals with the claims and data.

A startup that’s working to make the mental health sector more accessible to people through a smartphone app. It can be used to support people who have depression, anxiety and other forms of mental illness. The app works by connecting users with personal care managers who can make appointments with a therapist, prescribe medication and make referrals.

A platform for self-service cloud storage that’s available on the web and mobile, and is backed by $8.2 million from investors including Sequoia.

A customer engagement platform that helps restaurants, banks, and other businesses engage with customers.

A system for delivering healthcare information and services in real-time to patients.

The startup has built a tool for people to convert PDF files into digital files.

The startup is building a facial recognition and computer vision system, though their first product is a “smart camera” that scans the faces of pedestrians, then recommends the next person they should follow.

The startup wants to build a “third-party insurance-for-everyone” platform that offers affordable health insurance. The startup has already built a network that serves around 200,000 people in the US and has raised $3.5 million.

A startup that aims to create an AI-powered personal assistant that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

A company that started as an app for sharing and selling products but has pivoted to personal finance coaching.

A business simulation game where you can create your own startup, and compete to get new customers, build your product, and grow to be the most popular business.

A startup that helps people save money by helping them live in the moment and stop obsessing about money.

The Yield Lab is a business accelerator focused on agriculture and food. The startup provides capital, office space, and mentorship to help early stage companies launch and grow.

This company wants to help retail and e-commerce businesses in China with logistics and shipping.

A chatbot platform that allows users to schedule regular conversations with virtual therapists who provide advice, feedback, and advice.

A startup for book authors, publishers, and fans to help them get their books into libraries.

An end-to-end personal financial system for millennials. The startup wants to use the blockchain to create a “democratized” personal financial system for millennials.

A social recruitment platform for high-end fashion brands. The startup is building their own marketplace, and working with brands to help them find the right people.

A startup that helps you choose, prepare, and deliver food for people who are ill, elderly, or disabled

A company that “helps businesses buy and build from a wider, more diverse set of technology services”. The startup has raised $6 million from investors and says it has already helped companies grow from “the size of a small company to a well-staffed, highly functional team”.

A female-focused, non-sexualized virtual reality platform where women can connect with other women in a safe and judgement-free environment to discuss and learn about sexual health and wellness.

A startup that helps people with debt or other financial obligations pay off their student loans faster with automated paychecks.

A startup to help people make good financial decisions by presenting them with an income forecast for every month of a job and helping them see how much they need to save for retirement.

A portable, solar-powered “newsroom” for journalists covering breaking news.

A digital health startup that builds patient-facing tools to help doctors educate patients on their conditions and symptoms.

A chatbot that integrates with your email and helps you manage your inbox. The chatbot is designed to be able to answer questions about email and work.

A company that sells 3D printed case covers for smart phones.

This app aims to help people find a local bar or restaurant, and lets you order food or drinks through your mobile device.

A tool for businesses to plan and manage their expenses and make them more accurate. It pulls in data from other services like Salesforce, Google Docs and more, so you can plan an expense with a spreadsheet and see it instantly reflected in your online banking.

A system for creating and managing social campaigns for advertising, marketing, and sales.

An online tool that lets you set up an account in 15 seconds.

A startup that tells you what you can expect to make from a job posted on Upwork.

A process for hiring that’s focused on how candidates interact in person rather than just looking at their digital resume.

A platform for creating an Instagram account and following other people, with tools like scheduling posts and analytics.

A startup that lets you see why your car insurance rates are so high.

This startup wants to turn food waste into a commodity. It is developing a process to turn used food into a liquid waste product for use as a fertilizer for farmers.

A tool for helping people pay off their student loans. The company has already started paying off over $3 million in loans for people who took out their student loans in the 1990s.

A platform that gives you the ability to broadcast live video from your phone. The startup wants to bring a “Facebook Live” like experience to mobile devices, but with better quality.

A platform that helps workers save money on what they buy. The startup wants to make it easier for employees to track and analyze purchases.

The startup is building an open source custom-built hardware for internet of things devices.

A platform for customizing and selling birth announcements, which the company says is one of the top five most ordered baby products on Amazon.

A food delivery service that will deliver “all-natural” meals from a community of home cooks that the company says will be better for the environment than restaurants.

A startup that helps to build smart contracts for businesses that need to manage foreign exchange, loans, investment, etc.

An online photo editing platform, also available on iOS and Android, which is meant to be used by people with no experience in photography to be able to add various effects to photos.

A small payment processor that helps musicians get paid for their work.

Helping restaurant chains manage their menus.

A startup in the US that does “intelligence” for underwriters, helping them make better business decisions based on data.

"We are building a new kind of Facebook for professionals. We have a modern messaging app for professionals and a modern way for professionals to manage and share their professional content.”

A tool that lets people “build and own” their own online courses, and then makes it easy for people to pay for courses.

A startup that lets people easily find nearby parking garages.

This company is working on a game that is played with a custom-designed physics engine.

In August 2018, the company raised a $2.5 million seed round from Right Side Capital, and has since expanded to New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.

A startup that wants to bring a 21st century version of the old magazine subscription model. The startup gives access to a variety of programming languages and news to consumers for a monthly subscription fee.

A platform that delivers on-demand, high-quality digital content. The company has spent the past year creating a platform that allows users to upload content to it, and creating an editorial team that curates the content that users like.

This startup is trying to figure out how to make a good clickable button, which has proven to be a difficult task.

Odoo is a bundle of SAP development services, aimed at helping companies access the entire SAP ecosystem of solutions.

A place for people of all faiths to come together and discuss religion, faith, and spirituality, without the judgment and stigma of the public sphere.

A note-taking app that supports Markdown. It’s very similar to Notational Velocity, but for storing notes in your phone.

A platform that helps students get tutoring help from other students.

A SaaS company that helps employers manage their employee benefits in a simple, easy-to-use platform.

A maker of subscription boxes to help customers discover, purchase, and ship products from retailers across the country. Each month, the service helps subscribers pick each month’s “box” based on their interests, which is hand-curated by the company’s team.

A mobile app that uses the phone’s accelerometer to detect whether a user is walking and provide immediate feedback on how to improve eating and exercise habits.

A platform that connects contractors with homeowners looking for work. The company aims to offer a turnkey service to contractors by connecting them to homeowners.

Aspiring to be a Tinder for food delivery, this startup is building a mobile app that helps users find food from local restaurants.

The company’s goal is to make the process of applying for visas easier for international students.

A platform that helps people make lightning-fast alterations to their homes. The startup is trying to reduce the process of finding contractors, arranging payments and paying them.

A startup that wants to help companies better “insur[e] your risky assets” by letting them invest in “a diversified portfolio of investments without a lot of time and hassle”.

A B2B company that helps global enterprises track and manage expenses and cash flows.

A tool for managing your own collection of audio and video interviews, which are then made available to your clients.

A social network for artists who work with their fans to manage their online profiles and get paid for the work they produce.

A platform that allows companies to build digital training programs for employees.

An autonomous electric vehicle technology company.

A tool for hiring contractors and interior designers

This is a company that is building a tool to help companies track their expenses in a way that can be neatly summarized into a spreadsheet.

A tool that automates some of the manual steps involved in running a company. It’s designed to help companies like restaurants and hotels manage expenses.

A startup that will allow you to automatically receive payment for your work via AI. The company has raised $1.2 million.

An online service that brings together patients with osteopaths.

An online marketplace connecting businesses with their customers, by removing the pain of looking for the right product, by allowing them to find the right supplier.

A startup that builds and markets consumer electronics. It provides manufacturing solutions to companies in the consumer and industrial electronics space.

The following people have been appointed to the board of directors at IdeaScale:

A plan to make medical care in developing countries more accessible.

A company that helps you choose the right storage system for the needs of your business.

A way for people to get their data moved from one place to another.

A company that provides a solution to help companies with developing markets increase sales and marketing efforts via a centralized marketplace.

A company that offers a tool to help companies send out “sales quotas”

A company that helps retail businesses get the most out of their point of sale systems, with a library of free apps, including one for tracking customer giveaways, making grocery lists and more.

A SaaS-based service for retailers that helps them manage their shipping.

A tool that can be used to organize, manage and make sense of all your files and tasks.

A startup that helps connect dating service members with those interested in meeting them.

A cryptocurrency exchange that focuses on private investors. It uses a system of “certified wallets” with a touchscreen interface to allow investors to manage their holdings.

This startup is building a way to create virtual reality experiences for brands, using a technology called “phantom display”.

The company wants to help take the guesswork out of what to charge customers before they’ve even placed an online order.

SMI (Social Media Intelligence) is a startup at the intersection of social media and data, which helps businesses get insights from social media. It’s helped “more than 15,000 customers” including GE, Ford, and the U.S. Bank.

A startup that is building a social media aggregator, hoping to take on Facebook and Twitter. The company aims to be the place people go when they want to share a photo or tweet

A company that is creating a platform for content creators to sell PR services. The startup aims to create a marketplace for PR services, in which companies can buy packages of services in bulk to save money.

Merkle is an AI-driven search engine that helps you find the best way to spend your money based on the things you’ve bought in the past. They’re based on a “Netflix for shopping” approach.

A startup that builds a simple, visual way to organize and track projects. The startup aims to help teams be more productive by making it easy to create tasks and access them later.

A ticketing platform for small business. The startup was launched in June 2016.

A startup that helps restaurants outsource their delivery needs, to save money and cut down on delivery time.

A company that helps companies set up flexible working arrangements.

A company that helps commercial real estate companies manage their data management and compliance processes.

A startup for public safety and first responders, that informs decision-makers when there’s a threat or emergency.

A startup that wants to help small businesses create personalized marketing campaigns by analyzing their websites. They’re currently working with companies in the UK, where they plan to launch in early 2020.

A startup that lets you order food through your email address.

A startup that helps you book a cheap flight and hotel room for a conference you’re attending, or a client you’re meeting with.

A company that helps restaurants, bars and coffee shops optimize their ordering process. The startup’s platform lets customers search for locations, get delivery options from there, and track orders.

This startup is building artificial intelligence for organizing and maintaining personal information in the cloud.

A startup that wants to make it easier for big brands to take photos for Instagram. They’re building a new way for brands to create Instagram content without having to go through the process of taking a photo.

The company is building a software platform for service professionals to manage meetings and meetings proposals.

This company is building a platform to help retailers build customized e-commerce experiences. It’s built on the idea of a “personal shopper”, a service that helps customers make choices about products in real-time.

A startup that helps users manage their finances by selling them a monthly investment plan that allows them to invest with a team of financial experts.

A VC firm that invests in early-stage podcasts and other media.

A company that provides a central point of contact for parents to reach out to teachers. It’s not a replacement for the school but rather helps parents stay in touch with the teacher.

A company that makes it easier to measure and manage the environmental impact of a company’s operations.

This app helps users choose the best way to get places.

This company is designing a tool for healthcare professionals to make it easier to manage and track patients’ health information.

An API that lets customers pay any merchant in the world, directly through their website, with no credit-card processing fees.

A tool for employees to give feedback on their managers in real-time. The B2B business is meant to help companies recruit and train their employees better.

An AI-powered HR platform that helps companies recruit and manage employees.

A platform for companies to sell and manage their employee vacation time, incentivizing employees to take it when they’re able.

Businesses often have to deal with the issue of creating a “high security environment” to pass over their payment information to someone. Entrepreneurs Ryan Levitt and David Honig say that the good news is that the process has basically become “the same as logging into Gmail,” and they’ve developed a simple, secure solution that they’re now using in their own businesses.

Idea: A platform for getting the most out of your coffee. The startup offers three products: a coffee subscription service, a coffee maker that brews a single cup at a time, and a French press. Their subscription service offers 12 different types of coffee every month.

A WhatsApp-like messenger app for personal security that doesn’t rely on personal information to be secure. The app helps you to take the best precautions for your safety and helps you to stay safe.

A personal development and productivity tool that helps you organize your day and tasks into a visual timeline.

A set of hardware tools to improve digital security and resistance to phishing and malware.

A health management tool for physicians and patients alike. The tool uses AI to help users understand the importance of diet, exercise and other wellness metrics, which can help a patient track their health and make better lifestyle decisions.

This startup is building an online marketplace for the sale of computer parts, but based on the free and open source project OpenELEC.

A platform for people to find and book daycare for their kids, partnering with daycares and care providers.

A company that will help you create the perfect visual resume, with a template that’s designed to fit any job you might apply for.

A software platform that helps recruiters manage employee communications and workflows more effectively.

A product that helps the elderly monitor their health.

Build an online marketplace for people to buy used cars from other people. It’s a massive market with 30 million cars sitting in people’s garages every year, according to the founders.

A tool to help people with autism, who have trouble with social interactions and repetitive tasks, learn to manage money.

A startup that looks to take on the enterprise software sales market, as well as helping sales teams make better decisions.

A tool for help with self-promotion and capturing content content on social sites.

A startup that provides a hardware solution for IoT devices, which is connected to the cloud through your phone.

An on-demand e-commerce marketplace for consumers, like those found on Etsy and Shopify. The startup wants to help consumers buy the right products and get the right discounts, while helping businesses manage their online sales and inventory.

A platform for multi-party negotiations.

A startup that lets people embed their own content into other people’s videos.

This startup is trying to make web design a “safer” profession by lowering the drop out rate.

A startup that provides a directory for people to find local restaurants with vegan options

A way to do peer review for scientific papers, allowing scientists to post their work directly as a paper on the internet and ask for feedback from the scientific community.

A platform for investors to buy individual stocks across a variety of exchanges simultaneously.

A platform that allows users to create and share a digital drawing, which can be used by other users to add to or edit.

The startup is building a cloud based “data hub” specifically for social impact companies. It aims to “make it easier for social enterprises and nonprofits to integrate their data with the rest of the world, and for those people to access it.” The startup’s first customers are a group of nonprofits in the Bay Area.

A Boston-based startup with a focus on clean energy. Their product is a roof tile that pulls energy from the sun. This project is a spinout from Techstars.

A search engine that looks like Google but won’t show you stuff that isn’t relevant to you.

A startup that helps log your food so you’re not creating waste.

A platform to help nonprofits raise more funds, with a model similar to Kickstarter

The goal of this startup is to help consumers shop for services that match their needs, rather than relying on recommendations from friends and family. The company looks to compete with platforms like Groupon and LivingSocial by selling subscriptions that will take care of the customer. The startup is already working with a number of Wal-Mart and Kroger stores.

The following startups were all listed in the “premier” category at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, but didn’t make the final cut to the demo stage of the event.

A tool to programmatically manage the data and actions of your web app.

A simple pair of sunglasses that tells you which app you’re using.

A startup that helps people in developing countries get micro-loans

Flap is a new way to add non-standard formatting to images on the web, by adding a double exposure effect to photos. Flap is attempting to take on the trend of adding effects to photos, with a single source for all the possibilities.

A startup that wants to help organizations cost-effectively learn, measure, and deploy AI.

A company that helps businesses start their own blog, with tools for handling content creation, editing, and publishing, including a content management system.

A tool for digital nomads, focused on things like finding a place to stay, legal advice, and people to introduce you to people to meet. Founded in 2015, Union.ro is gaining traction in areas with a high density of digital nomads.

A software company that builds a web portal for businesses to track and manage their finances. It’s currently taking on clients, with clients like Allianz and Morgan Stanley.

A platform that helps users plan their travel, book hotels, and share their experiences with others

A startup that works with investors to create a platform for them to invest in startups.

This startup wants to make a digital health platform for people to manage their symptoms, and make better decisions on their health.

A tool to help you manage multiple social media profiles, with a section for managing your Instagram account.

A team of former HubSpot and Google employees have created a new startup called Binder that makes it easy for sales and marketing teams to collaborate with one another.

Building a chat interface that relays data over a secure encrypted channel, so that people can chat and share files securely, and also build a platform for developers to build their own encrypted messaging apps.

A platform for the self-employed that automates their payroll process, so they can spend more time doing what they love. It’s a great story about how an app is designed to solve an employee’s problem, but can also be built with their customers in mind.

The startup helps retailers and brands promote their product by leveraging their customer data.

A startup that aims to create a “virtual reality digital assistant” that enables the AI to learn how to answer questions and converse with users.

A software-as-a-service platform for small businesses to manage their risk management. The company's software helps small businesses manage their insurance through virtual insurance agents.

A platform that helps marketers see how their marketing spending is working. Think of it as a way to make sense of Instagram data.

This startup is working on a platform that will allow restaurants to track what customers are ordering without the restaurant having to install and manage a server.

is building an AI platform that aims to make it easy for companies to understand the implications of the use of personal data.

A venture that is building a platform for managing insurance claims across the United States.

A new textbook for medical students and residents, meant to help them learn and retain information.

A real-time chat app for B2B that connects companies with each other and people who can help them.

A startup that helps you find your friends in real-time on your phone, and groups them with similar interests.

A food delivery app that’s launching in San Francisco this month.

A B2B platform for product management teams, sales teams, and marketers to manage their projects and sales pipelines all in one place.

A startup that lets users select a theme for their home. It’s a web-based app that lets users customize their home’s look and layout via a user-controlled interface.

A startup that gives users the ability to manage and store their personal data, giving them control and transparency over their data.

Idea: A startup that aims to replace the ancient, insecure, and expensive fax machine with a paper-less, secure, and cheaper system. The startup is working with large corporations to do this, and has sold $100,000 in the last month, with a 2.5% take rate.

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage HR processes: onboarding, payroll, leave, benefits, training, etc.

A platform for all digital currencies. Their goal is to provide a universal wallet that allows users to exchange between digital and fiat currency directly.

An iPhone app that helps people know what they could be eating and when they could be getting it. The startup wants to make it easy for customers to order food and know when it will be delivered.

This company is building a digital platform for building and managing groups of physical assets. It’s first products are intended to be used by real estate developers and property managers.

A startup that connects people looking to rent their apartment with people looking to live in it. It has built a base of 100,000 users and $1.2 million in revenue over the last year.

A startup that wants to make it easier for small businesses to get paid for web traffic, and for advertisers to track the performance of their ad campaigns.

This is a community for videographers that already has 300,000 members.

A software-as-a-service platform that allows companies to send automated payments to contractors, freelancers and consultants. Work Hub is designed to help B2B companies with the complexity of payment processing.

A news app that lets users pay for premium content, with a minimum subscription of $29.99.

A startup that wants to learn people’s habits and use the information to suggest new products to them...with discounts.

A “tame” version of a chatbot, with the goal of making it easier to communicate with the company’s marketing team.

A mobile app that connects you to the best local restaurants based on your search results.

A company that’s building a “personal assistant” for the United States government. The product is built for the US intelligence community with a $1.5 billion contract.

A mobile app to help tourists book trips in real time, in a way that’s similar to using a mobile app to book a ride-share or a hotel. The company has a large following of users, and a potential to build a global brand from the ground up.

A startup that helps restaurant owners track the number of people who order from their restaurant’s menu, helping them to improve their online presence and track key metrics.

A startup that builds tools to help developers build mobile apps for small businesses.

A tool that makes shopping for and buying prescription drugs easier and more convenient

A startup that helps people build small businesses in the Philippines using a combination of digital tools and their own hands-on assistance.

A startup building a platform for outsourcing of digital tasks.

A Skype-like video calling app for group chats, designed for small teams.

We’re taught that the key to social science is “social observation”.

Helping people see their friends’ tweets, photos, and videos from their phones during a dinner party.

SITU is building a messaging app to help people connect with their local government. It’s meant to make government more approachable and transparent to the public.

Market research tool that gathers data on amateur athletes and coaches. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up 8,000 coaches and they’re growing fast.

A mobile app that pairs with a “machine-learning algorithm” to help drivers find the best routes to their destinations.

A startup for selling and buying used cars. The startup plans to build a national network of used car dealers to help consumers meet sellers of similar cars. The startup will take a moderate percentage of the sale.

The startup wants to work with small businesses to help them market themselves on social media.

A tool that helps content marketers find the most effective ways to promote their work. The startup wants to make content marketing cheaper by removing the middleman and letting companies choose what works best for them.

This is a consumer-facing app that helps small businesses test and learn how to be more efficient. It’s built to be used by SMBs of all sizes, and teaches them through a series of small tasks.

A company that helps people collect and report information on the state of the planet and helps them predict where the next natural disaster is likely to strike. It’s a project for The Planetary Society, an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to space exploration.

A company that makes an app that helps people learn more about their health conditions and how to keep them at bay. The app is for people who want to learn more or keep track of their health conditions.

Idea: A co-working space in Colombia that is growing quickly The company is currently in a few pilot locations and is looking to expand rapidly They have a waitlist of over 50 companies

A tool for agencies, consultants and freelancers to manage their clients and deals, and to get paid

A “tame” version of the Snapchat app, focused on bringing its features to one’s phone.

This startup is creating a way to share and track the performance of the web content that people decide to share online. The startup has raised $1 million.

Conversational commerce for the internet of things.

A shopping app that shows the best deals from the entire internet as a single, unified product.

A platform for building and selling online courses. The startup is a Y Combinator alum.

A Maryland startup that helps users create a digitalized, updated resume

A startup that builds a library of 3D scans to import into other 3D modeling software.

A startup building a data and AI driven platform for online businesses that want to target audiences in languages other than English.

This startup is building a more accessible interface for data scientists to get more out of the data they have.

A platform that aims to make it easier to design and manage digital product and content experiences. An open-source platform that allows anyone to design a product and provide the necessary feedback to friends and followers. The startup is seeking to build on the work of other Open Platforms like Brave, or Pivotal, or Path.

A small loan marketplace that allows anyone to lend and borrow locally, in person, with no credit score required.

This startup aims to make the process of buying, selling, and investing in Bitcoin more accessible to novice investors.

A startup that helps companies manage their customers from a customer relations perspective. It’s a CRM for customers and employees as well as a way to manage a directory of contacts.

A startup that wants to replace the old “bunch of keys” business model that requires manual labor to file tax returns from tax preparation services to online forms.

A startup that helps restaurants and other places sell their leftover food for a profit.

A startup that helps connect dating service members with those interested in meeting them.

A startup that helps users remember and visualize things like their childhood, their favorite foods, and the time of day. The app is like a visual scrapbook and helps users keep track of important memories and events.

A startup that builds apps for startups.

Gives people in the Los Angeles area a way to share their bike rides in real time.

A digital tool for measuring a customer’s media consumption and purchasing behavior.

If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.

This startup in the US is building an app that helps people avoid buying things from retailers that then sell it to consumers at a loss, for instance by Amazon or Target.

A "social speech recognition" app that uses the power of crowdsourcing to help people with speech disabilities get the most accurate possible transcription.

An online platform that uses AI to provide digital tutoring to K-12 students. The startup says it’s built a “supercomputer” to train digital tutors to help students with math and other subjects.

A B2B company that helps financial-related businesses send payments to each other.

A startup that provides a service for people who are looking to buy a new car to go to a dealership and test drive cars and get a feel for what the car is like before they buy it

A tool to help people get mortgages, which combines the small business loan market with the personalized loan market. It’s currently in private beta.

The company is building a modular kitchen that allows you to pick the style you want and the size you want, then get a delivery date and install date, and then get a personalized installation guide.

A company that makes a facial recognition app that can automatically detect and categorize facial expressions.

This is an open source project to create a webOS-like platform for a variety of mobile devices.

A startup that makes it easier for companies to hire doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals by making it clear what they’re worth and how they can become a part of the company.

A tool for streaming live video and building community around it. Trying to build a “Netflix for Live Video”.

A facial recognition tool meant to help retailers “improve the accuracy of customers’ images,” using their cameras to get a better idea of who they are.

A platform for connecting consumers with products that already exist.

A platform for recording live audio and video shows.

A company that’s building a platform to make it easier for people to manage their home security, with a hub that’s meant to support additional hardware over time.

A startup that wants to get the word out about great natural beauty products

A company that helps customers build and install solar panels on their homes.

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A company that sells a handheld device that can measure UV quantities for soil. The company’s first product is a $200 device that measures UV quantities to help farmers measure how much fertilizer to use.

This startup is working on a biotech company that focuses on making insulin more effective. They’re testing a new way to make insulin that’s meant to allow the body to more effectively use it without the issue of insulin resistance.

This startup is building a mobile app that will let you buy just about any product — from a couch to a chandelier — and have it delivered to your home in less than an hour.

A database and analytics software intended to help companies and universities classify and classify people.

This startup is building a mobile app that helps patients manage their health insurance. The startup is currently focused on the UK market.

A tool to help people better understand their insurance, and figure out if they’re paying too much.

This startup wants to help companies in the US and Canada manage their expense report software.

A cloud-based software as a service platform for supply chain execution.

A student travel concierge service.

A tool designed to help small businesses with the accounting and tax process.

A $500+ tool that measures and tracks weight loss and the overall health of a person. The service is built to help people with diabetes and other health conditions, and tracks things like blood glucose and weight.

A company that wants to take stock trading to the next level with an AI-powered app that can trade stocks with the same confidence and speed as a human.

A software company that tracks and analyzes water usage in the United States. The startup is led by a guy who also founded a company called Aquatech that tracked water usage in the US in the 1990s.

App that helps people find out if they’re in good health, and provide access to information on how to improve their lifestyle.

A worker-owned cooperative for testing, which is funded by Kickstarter.

A startup that helps employers and HR departments manage the hiring process and recruitment. They’ve raised $1.2 million to date, and their 10-person team has already signed on to work with 500 startups.

A company working on a software platform to help banks create a single online banking interface.

This company is building a platform that enables sales reps in India to take orders via text message and then send them to back-end sales reps who are working on an individual transaction.

This startup is building a tool that allows small businesses to sell items on their own websites, without worrying about offline inventory or storefronts.

An AI-driven platform for internet service providers to manage customer accounts and bill payments.

A startup that helps people who live in tiny homes learn how to be more efficient with their space

A startup that allows for a smarter way to select or customize an outfit for a formal event.

A startup that helps you find nearby restaurants that offer delivery and online ordering

A fitness brand that’s like a subscription service, except you don’t have to pay monthly. It’s a monthly membership for $4.99, plus $3.49 for each workout. It also has an on-demand TV service that streams the company’s workouts to non-members for $1.99 a month.

A platform that allows users to share their thoughts, photos, and videos with each other. The idea is that this platform will help users share their experiences with each other in a more sharing-oriented way than Facebook.

Another tool for managing your Google Drive documents with Markdown.

A platform that allows companies to give employees a single, centralized dashboard to monitor their company-wide productivity as well as individual productivity.

A new video platform for streamers, offering a hub for video content that includes personalized recommendations from the platform’s community of users.

An automatic marketplace for business and personal users for those looking for an iPhone screen repair and other Apple repair services.

A Canadian startup that has been testing a new way to deal with the waste of Canadian food waste by using what they call “a great bed of lettuce”.

A startup that provides a service for people who are traveling who want to make sure that their luggage gets to their destination

The company is building a way to track machine learning algorithms and their performance.

A startup building a platform to let people find jobs in their own community. It works a lot like other platforms like Upwork, but the company says it’s targeting the jobs market, and does not require fees to post a job.

A gateway for the domestic consumption of international foods and beverages

A startup that wants to understand the relationships between different cities to see what will be the most lucrative business opportunities.

A mechanical engineering software company that is building a 3D modeling package.

Gist is a startup that helps athletes improve their performance by tracking their workouts and then, through a series of video lessons, helping them to apply that information.

A car sharing startup that lets people rent cars by the hour or by the day. In July, the company had 13,000 people on the waitlist for their limited-time $500,000 raise.

A tool for understanding the impact of your health care spending on your lifestyle and health. A bit like Mint for healthcare, and HealthifyMe for groceries.

A food delivery service with a focus on vegetarian/vegan meals and rooftop urban kitchens.

A platform that lets C-level executives and other employees post, edit, and remove information from their LinkedIn profile.

A company that helps companies with their data pipelines, connecting them to more and more sources of data.

A startup that wants to help entrepreneurs find the best products, services, and companies to partner with.

A startup that helps you discover the cheapest flight to your next holiday, based on your budget and preferred origin/destination.

A company that enforces anti-spam policies and sends notifications to email accounts that have sent messages that’ve been flagged by the platform.

A three-sided marketplace helping employers recruit, screen, and hire employees.

A dating platform for men seeking women, with a heavy emphasis on education. The company has already raised $1.4M after announcing the startup in December, with investors including former CEO of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

The startup has developed a tool that can print a custom home-pickup menu for nearby restaurants. The startup’s first customer is a chain of Mexican restaurants in the US.

A startup that allows workers to fill out job applications and also get paid for doing so.

A platform that enables people to crowdsource and “pay it forward” their expertise to help others

A startup that helps you discover the cheapest flight to your next holiday, based on your budget and preferred origin/destination.

This startup helps companies see customer data at scale across their different locations and use it to make better business decisions.

A company that allows their users to rent out their unused office space in a virtual way.

This startup is building a “smart” card that runs on a local RFID (radio frequency identification) chip. The card is intended for use in vending machines and retail stores where sales occur, but the company is also looking to use it in other contexts like credit/debit cards and membership cards.

OpenTable was ranked the #1 startup in the category of “Food and Beverage” in the Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest growing private companies in the US in 2018.

A video analytics startup that tracks and analyzes video content in real time. The startup lets brands create ads based on time and content of video.

A consumer marketing platform where customers can buy and ship products directly to friends. The startup is also working on a team-based crowdfunding platform to help small business owners.

A startup that helps merchants manage the process of returning items. This startup is run by CFOs for major retailers.

A platform that helps small businesses manage their coffee orders online. It’s free to use for customers, but the company hopes to make money by turning the system into a recurring subscription.

A SaaS that helps artists sell their work directly to consumers in a way that’s more efficient than selling through a gallery or commercial gallery.

A startup that helps individuals focus on their goals by making it easier to link behavioral data to tasks.

A startup that offers a highly customisable, easy-to-use platform for designing employee relocation packages

A startup that aims to make it easier for marketers to get their wares in front of creative people, and for creative people to get paid for their work.

A startup that helps businesses manage employee tasks and allows them to organize tasks into workflows.

A new product from Zensci that uses AI to predict what customers want.

A VR software development studio that focuses on enterprise and industrial clients.

A startup that helps people coordinate “Last-Mile” carpooling from point A to point B.

An AI-powered platform that lets media teams shorten the time they spend on content creation by identifying which pieces of content will be most popular, as well as predicting the best time to post it.

A platform meant to help autonomous vehicle companies and people who want to use them self-drive.

A digital textbook and learning platform that makes it easy for teachers, students, and parents to create and share digital content.

BuildOn is a tool that helps small businesses list their products on Amazon. The company is part of Y Combinator’s Class 5.

The digital version of a pest control service. The startup’s team is small but they’re growing fast. They’ve raised $1.2 million and are looking to expand into the Northeast and Midwest.

A startup that helps track and connect people who want to apply for jobs in a specific city, and allows them to see the job openings, apply and schedule interviews, get feedback on their applications, and communicate with recruiters. Available in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A small B2B company that wants to help banks use the same data to improve their core business and make better lending decisions.

A loyalty app which gives users points towards services they want through surveys, and then rewards them with discounts at other services. The startup, which has been around for over a year, is working with over 100 brands, including Airbnb, Amazon, and Lyft.

A startup that wants to make the web more social and connect people. The company is building an ad-free platform to give users more control over how they use the web.

A startup for sharing and selling surplus office equipment.

A decentralized podcasting platform

A tool for cleaning and organizing deprecated connections from a Slack workspace.

An online tool that helps people track their credit card spending. The startup claims to have over 400,000 users and says it has saved users over $1 million.

A company that helps other companies create and use “smart contracts”, essentially creating decentralized software that runs on the blockchain and helps solve business problems.

A wearable device that monitors body movements to help fight cancer

A multi-platform tool that makes it easy to create a website and get it live on the web. The startup has raised $3.5M to date.

A financial planning startup looking to help people plan for retirement.

A startup that helps companies manage the various vendors they use to deliver their product.

A startup that allows companies to buy and sell social sharing ads, and track their performance.

This SaaS business helps businesses keep track of their legal bills, including which law firm they’re paying the bill to.

A platform to simplify and enhance streaming for live music events.

A coworking space for the public sector.

A Maryland startup that helps users create a digitalized, updated resume

A recruitment app that helps young professionals find jobs. Based in the UK, the company is working with employers to help them recruit young talent.

A startup that’s building a platform that lets malls and grocery stores in Mexico create cellphone-based chatbots that people can interact with on their phones.

A company that will help you “re-purpose your technology,” where you can take old tech and either sell it to someone else, or build something new out of it.

A mobile-first bank focused on small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Tachyon is a tool for monitoring and managing service-level agreements. The company’s founders say they’re already working with over 100 customers, and they’ve raised $1.7 million in seed funding.

A product design company that builds products for companies like Kickstarter, Yahoo and Walmart. They’re a hardware startup, and focus on the products they build.

A startup that provides a service to help people in developing countries access and learn from courses on Udemy

Smoothing the friction involved in the procurement process; a “digital procurement agency” that helps companies find suppliers and manage deals.

A startup that helps students get their transcripts online for free.

A tool for running and managing fitness classes, the startup wants to help “coach-ify” exercise classes.

A company that helps companies build, manage, and track their security budgets through a white-labeled SaaS product.

An online platform that promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace, increasing the number of women and minorities in technology.

A way to merge your Facebook and LinkedIn friends. The startup is currently in a private beta.

A phone-based service to help busy professionals connect with estate agents.

A company that builds a platform so people can customize their own personal workout programs, with the data suggesting the best ways to go about it.

A startup that aims to help people take advantage of the data in their lives and turn it into more efficient digital products. In practice, it’s a company that helps companies make use of the data on their apps

A tool to enable employers to create and manage their podcasts. The company is taking a very dry subject and making it fun, like “How to be a great manager”

An AI-powered tool for investors to make more informed decisions about what stocks to invest in. The AI scans the news, stock market data, and social media to provide investors with trends and insights.

A startup that helps companies with their HR technology, from recruitment to onboarding to payroll.

This is a B2B SaaS tool for insurance companies to manage their customers and their payouts, which they say has been a pain to use.

A home monitoring system for seniors with the goal of helping them live independently for longer.

A product design and engineering tool for web and mobile apps.

A tool for compliance at a healthcare company to help them understand, control, and report on their compliance.

A platform that lets users sell and share their old, unused stuff, with a marketplace that helps users decide what to do with it.

A platform for vendors to test drive their services before selling them to their potential clients.

A data company that wants to collect and organize marketplace data for makers to help them improve their overall business processes.

A community that helps remote workers manage their work and stay connected to their co-workers.

A platform for building and distributing custom content for businesses.

“The most affordable and fully featured machine learning platform on the market, from the creators of the world’s best-selling machine learning book,” the startup says.

A platform for measuring the impact of ads on your website

Starts with a wish list on Amazon, then sends the link to the gift recipient who can then pick out items. The company wants to build a personalized gift registry service on Amazon that’s easy for shoppers to use.

A cause-based marketing platform that uses an AI engine to target people with the right messaging at the right time.

The startup aims to build a new kind of “smart” light bulb that’s dimmable and can be controlled by voice.

A private social network for the rich and famous, aiming to offer a more effective way to connect with people while giving them the privacy they want.

A startup that helps healthcare professionals and patients collaborate to improve patient outcomes, and it’s powered by an AI bot. The company’s founders tell us it does all of its work by sending patients personal questions and tracking their responses to them, building a database of their responses to doctors and clinicians.

Google’s self-driving cars aren’t ready for the public yet, but that hasn’t stopped some people from building their own. The startup, which is based in San Francisco, is helping others build their own self-driving car kits in the hopes of creating a viable alternative to the Google car.

The startup is pitching itself as a “Google Docs for people who have a hard time in meetings”.

A healthcare subscription service for people wanting to track and keep tabs on their prescriptions. The company is building out a very simple and user friendly platform that saves users time and money by managing their prescriptions.

A product that helps people determine the right time to move homes.

This is a tool for journalists to create and share their work. The startup isn’t just a service, but a way to enter the content world of journalism.

A platform to help people do their taxes on their phones. The startup has created a companion app that helps people with their taxes, with an aim to help more people save hundreds of dollars on their taxes.

A startup that wants to use VR to help visually impaired people read. With the help of VR, users can read much more quickly than they could without it.

An API for companies to post job openings and filter through applicants.

A startup that aims to help people get more involved in their health by tracking their activity. Fitbit bought this startup in March of 2019.

A software that helps users track down their stolen or lost smartphones.

A platform that makes it easier for retailers to find and hire customers. The startup is built on the idea that many retailers struggle to find good customers and are therefore missing out on sales.

A company that helps recruiters find candidates, working with them to find the best candidates and build out their database. The company has raised over $1.6 million and has over 100,000 candidates in its database.

WorkRave is a platform that helps offices collaborate on work and make it easier to get things done

A company that promises to make owning a house a more transparent and understandable process for consumers via their online platform known as RealtyShares. The company is a real estate marketplace that uses blockchain technology to help potential home buyers and sellers compare properties to find the best deals on the market.

7thSky is building a startup that provides customtailoring services for clothing, aiming to offer the best fit possible and to deliver like a boutique shop, and charge less.

This application is an AI-based chatbot that uses the context of a conversation to figure out what data you need and can provide. It has been active for over a year and is available on Amazon’s Alexa platform.

A B2B app that helps companies understand the best way to engage their customers and secure new ones.

A tool to help employees collaborate on projects efficiently, which includes an email platform, file sharing, and task management.

A machine learning-based platform that helps companies analyze how customers interact with their products and make decisions based on that data. The startup is testing the platform with “a few thousand” small businesses in the Chicago area.

A startup that helps brick-and-mortar retailers sell online without having to build out their own e-commerce site.

The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to receive financing. It’s a mobile lending platform, using the same algorithms as big banks, but with lower interest rates and higher standards for creditworthiness.

A startup that takes a tax-prep checklist and places it online, so that people can use it to prepare their taxes at any time.

Idea: A new luxury travel brand that sells experiences like a cooking class in Marrakesh, a private beach in Bali, or a safari trip in Africa. The company is targeting high net worth travelers with up to $3 million in investable assets.

A platform that helps people share and talk about their interests, helping them find new friends and meet new people.

In the US, there are currently 16 companies valued at $1B or more.

A startup builder that lets you create beautiful, interactive, mobile-friendly websites for your business, with no coding required

A startup that helps people manage their social media presence, making sure they aren’t posting the same content too often.

A product that helps companies manage client data, including by integrating customer data with other customer data.

This startup wants to be the Airbnb of after-hours travel for dentists. Dentists can use the service to help students and interns for practice trips, and offer their own services to travelers looking for a dentist while on vacation.

A data-driven consulting firm that focuses on organizational growth and management.

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to replace the need for a call center by predicting customer needs and creating automatic replies.

This is a financial education platform, where you learn the ins and outs of various lending options to make sure you’re getting the best loan possible.

A customer and supplier management software to help small and medium-sized businesses reduce costs and increase productivity.

This startup is working on a solution to the problem of “data exhaust” — the vast quantities of information generated by medical devices that are not being used by doctors.

The company’s goal is to create a cloud-based service that’s cheaper, more secure, and more scalable than Dropbox, Box, and other cloud storage companies.

A company that helps retailers build custom software to help them outsource inventory management. Think of a company that has five stores in New York City and wants to outsource its inventory.

A startup that wants to provide a way to measure the performance of your website using a cloud-based analytics platform that works across multiple devices.

A solution for marketing and advertising products to people shopping on Amazon.com

A three-in-one device meant to simplify the process of creating food on a grill or smoker. The device is meant to serve as a barrel, grill, and smoker all in one. It’s first product, the $1,300 Bambu , is rolling out this summer.

Completely new to the market, this startup is building a software platform that helps local government and municipalities to gather, manage and analyze data about their residents.

A platform for outsourcing work to freelancers in the UK. The startup helps businesses and professionals find freelance workers for different jobs. The company is based in London, and has offices in Berlin and New York.

A health insurance startup in the US. The startup aims to be the “Uber of health insurance”, helping people find plans that cover their specific medical needs.

A platform that aims to help make the process of managing insurance claims easier.

A company that develops curriculum and training courses for dog owners

A web application for managing workers’ schedules and wages, which built out of an internal tool used by the company’s HR department. The software is used by thousands of workers and their employers.

A workplace analytics startup focused on HR. The founders have built a system that allows HR teams to track employee performance, morale, and engagement.

A fitness app for everyone, not just professional athletes. The app helps users track their daily activity and exercise goals.

A platform that allows users to have messaging conversations with their pets, with the company providing the service of getting their pets to say a phrase or a word through a mobile application.

A “social network for real estate agents”, an advertising platform for them to promote their services, and a social network for buyers.

A platform that provides users with a way to set up and schedule payments, sending invoices and money requests, and making payments.

A tool that lets you scan and track your food in a more convenient way.

A management-software tool for companies that sell their own products directly to consumers.

A startup that helps people track their spending, currently only in the UK but planning to expand to other countries in the future.

A company that aims to be the standard for GDPR compliance.

A company that delivers and hosts custom-sized, custom-built furniture.

A social network for web developers, offering a platform for sharing questions and tutorials and the ability for users to provide free consulting to one another.

A software startup that will provide web-based curricula for online courses.

A platform that aims to “help advertisers better target specific people based on their behavior, location, interests and demographics.”

A company that provides a platform for clients to build their own websites, including hosting and domain registration, with a focus on clients who need a site for a specific purpose.

A dating platform for men seeking women, with a heavy emphasis on education. The company has already raised $1.4M after announcing the startup in December, with investors including former CEO of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

The summer school is for students interested in learning programming and fundamental knowledge in computer science, with the intent of helping them be successful in college.

A product that helps businesses manage their risk. The startup’s software helps companies set up a risk model for their business and get a risk score so they can decide if they should hedge, mitigate, or accept the risk.

A tool that helps make it easier to keep track of your health, financial and work habits.

A company that helps companies with advertising, media buying and analytics. They’re building an API for the B2B biz, and have managed to secure $4.5 million in funding so far.

A software platform that allows small businesses to “pay anyone in the world in less than a second”.

A platform that lets people sell their WiFi network for a monthly fee.

A startup that lets you instantly rent an apartment with a few taps.

A startup that helps businesses manage all their customer data and automate tasks across the customer lifecycle. The company says revenue will be generated through the use of its software, which runs on the company’s API.

A startup that allows small businesses to sell their products online, and pay vendors with a digital wallet, and only with verified credit card.

• "Future Billionaires" (US edition), Forbes, November 30, 2013

A content creation tool for marketing firms. The platform tracks an organization’s content marketing campaigns, and analyzes the performance of each.

A software company that offers a suite of tools for companies that want to make better use of their employees’ time. The startup’s focus is on assisting small and medium-sized businesses that have a large workforce and are trying to figure out where to spend their time.

A platform for “telling your story”. For instance, you can write a story about your business trip to China, dump it into their database of a million other stories and have it created as an infographic.

Startup looking to make it easier to receive medical care in the developing world.

A startup that focuses on and improves the quality of digital advertising through its proprietary ad tech.

A startup that provides software to help eCommerce store owners who are trying to grow their business

A B2B startup that helps banks, credit card companies, and other lenders manage the back end of their business. They’re looking to grow out of their current 6-person startup into a $20m company.

Food delivery and home services in India with no delivery fees. The startup is looking to deliver a wide range of goods, from food to cleaning products, from thousands of businesses that have been vetted by the company.

A startup that helps its users automatically take better screenshots, including those of mobile devices. It’s like a smartphone’s automatic screenshot function but for computers.

A platform intended to help companies figure out how to make their processes more efficient. NetBix is backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital: Mayfield, Ignition Partners, and others.

This startup wants to make it easier for people to store and find their important documents, and make them available on their phone. The startup also offers remote storage as well.

A mobile payments platform for ride sharing, carpooling, and taxi services.

SaaS company building a cost-effective collaboration platform for business

A startup that helps restaurants quickly take and sell photos of their food

Builds websites for local businesses, with a focus on Philly

A startup that provides rewards for companies who manage their own self-service reporting and analytics for employees.

A warehouse service that can provide a complete solution for small businesses that need to store inventory, with a focus on fulfillment and shipping.

SaaS business that helps people create websites and handle their content, which they say is “not enough”.

A tool for managing the data on a small to medium sized business. It’s a white label product that is available to be customized by either a third party or a business owner.

A startup that wants to help businesses create video marketing content inside of a Slack channel instead of a separate app or website.

The startup is building a tool that allows companies to build a website for their services or products without them having to understand how to code.

A community-based crowdfunding platform for artists

This is a company that’s building a platform for search engine optimization for e-commerce. The startup uses computer vision to analyze images in e-commerce websites, and then helps businesses optimize their images for search engines. The company says it can increase click-through rates by 30% and reduce bounce rate by 40% in a month.

A tool for people to track and visualize their financial transactions. The startup is building the platform around the idea that people don’t want to track everything, but they want to track their finances.

A startup for stylists, with a focus on the creative lifestyle sector

The startup is meant to help people with colds breathe easier by creating a way to track their symptoms and home-remedies. The startup plans to launch in the UK this winter.

A building-materials startup that delivers everything you need to build a house

Car rental startups and startups creating rental cars are both big businesses. However, a number of issues are creating friction between them. Tagr is a startup created to help renters and car rental companies work together, using their combined data to better serve consumers.

In an effort to better understand the impact of its product, Yext is conducting real-time behavioral tracking tests of its software and the effects of it being installed on the web. Yext already has a number of users and revenue from companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, and Yelp.

A New York-based online platform for booking orthodontists for future appointments.

This startup has two co-founders, and they describe themselves as “…the first and only platform that helps [you] create and learn from inspiring and engaging content about personal finance, investing, and life.”

Taps is a startup that helps you get the most out of your tap water. It monitors the water quality and even has a specialized filter that improves taste.

A mobile payments and banking app for small businesses in the US that combines loyalty and rewards with banking. It’s like a consolidation of a couple of other payment and banking apps — Venmo, PayPal, and Square — into one. It’s already built out and gaining traction in the US.

A tool to help users write more effectively online

A startup that specializes in HR software for startups, focusing on self-service. The company wants to help people make their HR software work for them, making it easier for startups to get things done without needing to pay for HR services.

$50 app that connects people with items they’re looking for (think Ikea showroom product search).

If you want a car, the first thing you do is call your insurance company, and then you call your bank. The startup wants to automate this process and allow users to pay for their car insurance online with their bank account. It’s already working with AAA.

A LinkedIn-like tool for securing your network of contacts.

A free library of “crowd sourced” electronics repair instructions, with a database of more than 100,000 step-by-step guides for common problems with over a million unique parts.

A communication and collaboration tool that compiles everything from your calendar into a single location. It’s meant to help an employee manage all their communication and project management needs.

A startup focused on virtual reality and augmented reality wants to make it easier to create and share 3D models on the web, allowing designers to upload their 3D models into its platform for sharing and collaboration.

A B2B company that allows banks to choose between an AI/ML-driven platform and a human-driven platform for OCR, fraud detection, and other similar tasks.

This startup is building a “data assembly line”: a system to help companies analyze their massive data sets so they can make better decisions.

A platform for data scientists to submit data sets and get paid only when analysts find insights in them.

A company that helps US companies, mostly small businesses and startups, create a “lead generation ready” website, with an in-house team to help manage it.

A platform to help kids with autism communicate and socialize. They’re starting with one app: a picture-based app that uses facial recognition to identify autism traits and lets the user caption or draw over images.

A company that focuses on B2B e-commerce for services, helping them build scalable and engaging e-commerce platforms

A software platform for building apps that helps developers get their work done faster.

A “native advertising” platform that allows publishers to create and share native video ads that look like the video content they’re promoting.

A bitcoin wallet and mobile app for Android.

A tool that helps people find the right legal representation, based on their case. The startup is building an AI tool to help people find the right attorney for their situation.

A startup that converts Facebook to Twitter links. The startup helps people link their Facebook profile to their Twitter account, which can be a useful way to signal to followers that you’re not a spammer.

A verification service for online purchases that’s meant to combat fraud.

A startup that helps companies sell on Amazon.com, providing tools for a more efficient and streamlined product sales process.

A tool that helps people create a profile on a job site, and then their resume gets pulled into the system.

A startup that focuses on bringing school supplies and other essentials to kids in developing countries.

A startup that sells a service to provide real estate agents for people who want to buy/sell a property without an agent

A platform that allows customers to convert dollars into cryptocurrency with zero fees; the company also offers an exchange that allows customers to convert cryptocurrency into dollars, and vice versa.

The startup claims to be the only startup in the world to manufacture their own smart phone. eCanter is a ruggedized, waterproof, and dustproof smartphone that can withstand drops from up to two meters and has a waterproof case.

A platform that lets anyone build a website or mobile app. The company’s pitch is that it will be cheap for small developers and that it will help them build things that look beautiful.

A platform that connects people with people who want to take independent trips.

This software platform for music creators helps them manage their royalties, stores music and downloads, and monitors sales.

A tool for helping companies recruit people in their own cities. The startup is working on a recruiting platform, and is also working on a marketplace for employees to find jobs.

The startup uses digital technology to help prevent fraud in the food supply chain, essentially helping to prevent food poisoning in a way that’s less intrusive than the E. coli outbreak that occurred in the fall.

A 3D facial recognition app that helps you find the closest barbershop or stylist.

A “location-based intelligence” and “mobile-first” marketing platform.

A platform that connects employers and employees, allowing employers to post and manage jobs, and employees to apply.

The idea: a data platform for the sharing economy. The startup wants to take a lot of the manual labor out of the process of sharing things like vehicles, pets, or tools.

A platform to simplify and enhance streaming for live music events.

A company that helps you make sense of your data, from app to mobile to the cloud.

The startup, which was founded in June, wants to help manufacturers scale up their production of custom items quickly and easily.

An AI assistant that can take pictures of the things you’re looking at so you can save them to the AI assistant, which you can use to find other images that share similar subject matter.

A startup that aims to use heat from a person’s body to make electricity. Currently the startup is focused on the UK and Europe, looking for the right materials to make their battery work.

A platform for hiring high schoolers for internships and college placement. The startup “focuses on bringing transparency and efficiency to the recruiting process for both employers and students”.

A lot of companies are selling mobile phone cases with custom designs, but Nines offers custom design and production of phone cases, which will be sold in retail stores.

A mobile app that helps users monitor bike thefts. Mosquito collects data about bike thefts and then uses it to notify users via SMS, email, and push notifications if their bikes are stolen.

A startup that’s building a “game engine” for augmented reality experiences. The startup is pitching the product to app developers as a way to create experiences that are not possible with tools like Unity.

A company that would hack the way we measure the temperature of food. The startup is selling a digital thermometer that plugs into an outlet and can measure the temperature of various foods. It can also connect to a phone to show the temperature of the food on a digital screen.

This startup is building an enterprise search platform for businesses that want to up their search game.

An AI-based solution to make your resume and cover letter look and sound like you.

Pushing the boundaries of productivity, this startup wants to help software developers develop better apps.

A SaaS platform that connects small and medium-sized businesses with freelance workers.

A tech company that focuses on making the data in social media sites more useful, allowing businesses and consumers to see what their customers are saying, and help them build better products.

A startup that creates smart tools for children who want to learn to code. It helps kids learn how to code by building blocks, games, and lessons with an interface that is "as intuitive as our children are."

A startup that reduces time and costs involved in obtaining and renewing a US work visa

A software platform for hospitals to manage patient data, allowing patients to store their medical records online, view them, share them with doctors and nurses, and access their records for wellness purposes.

A startup that lets you see why your car insurance rates are so high.

A live chat audio software for call centers.

A machine learning platform that uses machine learning to predict which products will sell well.

This is a predictive analytics startup for retail and e-commerce sales.

A data strategy toolkit for teams at different stages of product development.

A new iOS app for tickets that lets

A platform that allows small businesses to use their existing websites to sell online, using their existing social media channels.

A startup that sells a kit for people who want to do the things they have always wanted to do but never had the time to do

A team of AI experts who want to build a machine-learning product that helps people achieve their health and fitness goals.

A tool to help people organize their to-do list, allowing them to see everything they need to do at a glance.

A startup that’s building a payroll management software for small businesses.

A scheduling tool for people with a full-time schedule who are looking to find time to go to the gym.

A digital payments platform aimed at the developing market in India.

A collaboration app for musicians and musicians to collaborate.

A startup that wants to make sure that every part of your company is on the same page.

A company that helps employees get paid even if their company is out of money. A startup called Yieldbot essentially acts as a middle man between companies and their employees.

A software company that helps users find a product or service for their specific needs. Based on the number of users it has, it’s looking to raise a round in the second half of 2019.

A set of tools for creating virtual reality experiences.

A startup for lending money to credit unions, with no fees. The company has a lot of traction on this front, with many credit unions currently looking at the platform.

A company that helps retail chains and radio stations travel agency and tour operators to create their own digital storefronts.

A task management tool that helps teams track projects, assign tasks, and discuss their progress.

Builds on the idea of an online store for workers to make money by selling items people need — and allowing them to earn up to $15 an hour. The company says it is currently operating in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A platform for low cost college housing. The startup is now working with one university, and plans to expand to many more in the coming years.

A tool that helps you get all sorts of things done, like a virtual grocery store, virtual or actual clothing store, or virtual or actual license plates.

A CTO who “cures” engineers so they can be less stressed and more productive.

A “data mining tool for healthcare companies” that aims to reduce the time it takes to build predictive models for their customers, and to help them make better decisions on who to target for their products.

A startup that offers “visual search” and “search intelligence”, which helps find images and other content that are relevant to your query.

A data science startup focused on building machine learning solutions for the shipping and logistics industry. The company helps companies identify patterns in their data and build predictive models to improve operational efficiency.

A social network for professional photographers

A company that wants to help banks and other financial institutions offer financial advice to their customers

A company that makes dog toys through 3D printing.

A software-as-a-service tool for automating product support in ecommerce stores.

A company that helps advertisers to maximize the reach of their marketing messages. The startup says it has helped some Fortune 100 companies increase their ad spend by 80%.

Works with retailers to provide VR-based training for customer service and merchandising

A co-working space for small businesses with a focus on providing job training.

A company based in San Francisco that helps companies like LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook to attract and retain top talent.

A platform that lets you build an ad-hoc group of people who can buy and sell things in real-time.

A platform that helps people sell items online, and manage their inventory and inventory management.

An AI that aims to help people with legal issues find the best way to resolve them.

A product that connects brands with influencers to develop campaigns. The startup charges 1.5% on campaigns it manages, to be paid out via Braintree.

A new, blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer lending platform that is targeting the global student debt crisis. The company is expanding internationally and looking for investors.

A mobile app that shows what other people are searching for, and lets users see what their friends are looking at.

This startup helps companies deliver care to patients in a more efficient manner. The company works with hospitals to help them deliver care in a more cost-effective way.

The company wants to provide the infrastructure to help universities and other institutions run their own online courses. The platform includes a series of free courses, exams, and quizzes.

A way to help people share and sell their assets, from furniture to cars, with a dedicated app.

This startup wants to help students pay for college by cutting out the middleman. With EnrollMe, students can set up online accounts at their schools, then buy the school's textbooks, pay for the school's dorms and student meal plans, and then transfer those funds directly to their school.

A startup that helps American companies sell to consumers in China and other Asian markets by taking over the process of getting a Chinese partner to buy their product.

This startup’s business is taking the laborious process of logging in to a website and making it more streamlined. Sola does this by creating what it calls a “lazy login” which says, “If you’re not logged in, you don’t need to log in.” Sola has raised $500,000 in seed funding.

The startup wants to be a marketplace for people to sell their used stuff. Its focus is on new-to-market products, but founders say they’d be open to selling used products as well.

A tool to help users learn English, enabling them to follow along on a video while a native speaker reads the text.

A B2B company that helps property managers and agents manage rental properties by automating tasks like invoicing, collecting rent and taking care of repairs.

In January 2018, Y Combinator announced that it was accepting applications for the 2018 batch. The 2018 batch is smaller than the 2017 batch, with only 25 companies accepted.

A startup that “makes it easy for people to invest in the stock market,” assisting “mutual funds, hedge funds and other investment firms to manage their clients’ portfolios.”

A different kind of charging station for electric vehicles, focusing on the home. Rather than wirelessly charging vehicles, the startup's stations are stationary and have a separate charging port for plugging in phones and tablets.

A startup that aims to make it easier for businesses to enter the insurance industry, by allowing clients to create their own insurance plans.

A contact management app that stores your contacts in the cloud and syncs them across all of your devices. It’s an API for making your contacts easy to find anywhere.

A company that provides data-driven marketing for small and medium sized businesses.

A platform that allows interns to book their own Facebook Ads, so they’re not limited to the ones their company sets up.

A digital concierge for hotels that can help and recommend things to do and see, with a platform that will help you compare your hotel’s services to other properties.

A company that makes it easy for people to stay in touch with their loved ones with videos and messages

A bitcoin exchange for small-dollar retail purchases. It’s available in the U.S. and Canada.

A food delivery app for restaurants in the US that’s trying to match Uber Eats and Grubhub with guaranteed delivery times.

A startup that provides a platform to educate food delivery workers in the US on how to deal with customers with food allergies.

A tool for retailers to boost the productivity of their store staff by simplifying manual data entry tasks that could be done automatically.

A “unique” digital, on-demand product design service for clients.

A platform for managing rental and credit card payments, with help for real estate agents. The startup is pitched as a general ledger for the real estate industry.

A startup that lets users create a chart of their credit scores, which they can share with potential lenders when applying for an auto loan.

A platform for people to share their daily routines and habits. The startup combines these with analytics to produce daily health reports.

This startup aims to help people use AI to understand their financial and professional performance and improve their earnings.

This startup is trying to make it easier for people to compare different shopping carts online to find the best deal, without having to explain what they’re looking for to a salesperson.

Bridges.io is a startup trying to help companies design and build bots that can do simple tasks like booking hotel rooms.

A crowdfunding platform for healthcare startups. The company is pitching an app that helps prompt patients to schedule appointments and get lab results.

A way for companies to pay the bills of their employees in multiple currencies, with higher rates for those who live in the area.

A tool for finding external funding that’s not tied to your domain. Clique is a competitor to AngelList, a site where individuals can post up their startup and ask for funding. The advantage is that it’s not tied to a specific domain, allowing it to work for any industry.

A platform that helps accountants and banks collaborate on compliance, and provides a graphical view of the transaction in real-time.

A personal assistant that keeps track of when a person is available to work and then schedules meetings as needed.

A digital tool for measuring a customer’s media consumption and purchasing behavior.

A startup that provides a way for people to book and pay for their medical appointments from their mobile phones, the startup plans on democratizing the healthcare system by making it more accessible to the general population.

A tool that helps create and manage gaming and esports teams.

A real estate agent that helps find and sell commercial and residential properties, while also connecting users with other professionals.

A startup that helps farmers in Latin America find the best deals from local banks on loans, but also helps them avoid scams and fraud.

In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.

This is an “automated” loan application process for small business borrowers. The startup says its technology can analyze the financials of a business in minutes and make a quick decision on whether or not to give them a loan.

Caava is a digital platform that helps businesses to manage their liability, and aims to make the process much easier by putting the burden on a blockchain.

A company that develops and manufactures smart devices, including a voice-enabled robot that can make purchases and get service information, which they’re hoping to sell to big box retailers.

A startup for on-demand drivers that allow them to find customers and get paid quickly.

A company that wants to improve the way healthcare providers can collaborate and share data.

An online marketplace for the trade of used books, trading them through a trusted system.

This startup is looking to be the Netflix of medical records, providing a service that offers a single platform for doctors and patients to access their medical records.

A startup that aims to be the Wikipedia of the veterinary industry, by building a community for vets across the world.

This startup is building a global network of local legal aid attorneys to help low income people in the US access legal aid, from free legal clinics to pro bono legal services.

This startup is building a tool to help people determine which loans they could get and where they’re available. The company counts Bank of America, Wells Fargo, HSBC, Capital One, and Citibank among its customers.

A startup that wants to give you a credit card to spend on your favorite apps.

SaaS company that helps businesses with compliance and regulatory headaches like tax reporting, sales tax, employee onboarding, and more

This company is building tech that allows you to use your existing internet-connected door lock without having to buy a new, more expensive deadbolt.

A startup that helps people share their homes with others, acting as a kind of Airbnb for people to rent out their spaces.

A company that helps companies sell insurance to UK residents who are not covered by the government.

A startup that wants to bring the power of VR games to non-gaming situations, like holding fashion shows.

A tool for restaurants to help them create menus and sales and reservations.

A tool to help small businesses get an edge on their competitors. It’s a toolset built to help small businesses onboard and manage clients. It’s a more advanced version of a service like HubSpot’s existing “Crowd Sourced Marketing” program.

A software company that helps companies better understand their customer data and make customer service more effective by starting with their customer journey.

The startup has built a software platform that lets its customers create, manage, and publish road-side signs in multiple languages. The company, which was founded in 2012, has raised $4.5 million in funding, including a $1.5 million investment from Digital Garage in August 2017.

A startup that combines data from the web and from people’s cell phones to help organizations understand what kind of power they need and how to get it.

The startup, which is based in Delhi, is building out a platform for the e-commerce market in the region.

A platform for online sales of artisanal goods

A system for monitoring and controlling IoT devices.

A company that helps people find a roommate, a roommate find a place to live and a rental agent find a tenant.

A platform that helps consumers find local products and services, and allows brands to reach out to consumers at scale.

In 2015, a total of 9,615 seed-stage deals in the US were led by women with 108 companies, a 2% increase from 2014. A total of 1,906 companies from women-led startups raised a total of $1.1 billion in funding.

A platform that allows users to connect to their hosting accounts, manage DNS, and set up email with a single interface, much like the company Mailgun.

A startup that wants to help make data center energy more efficient, using IoT to monitor energy usage.

An online service to connect travelers and local guides. The startup is building a platform that lets you book local guides through a website and pay them via bitcoin.

This startup is building an online marketplace for people seeking to rent out their spare rooms, apartments, or even their entire homes.

A startup that wants to help the military track the movement of money in the Middle East.

Idea: Automate Admissions at top Entrepreneurial Universities

A tool for cashiers to easily check if a transaction is considered a cash or credit one.

A platform for managing and tracking intellectual property. The startup’s founders say they have “tripled their revenue as we scale to help more inventors create and protect their inventions.”

A free app that helps people keep track of coming up with ideas, with the goal of helping them get their ideas out of their heads and into the world.

AI-based enterprise software that helps businesses find the best finance deals.

A 3D printer aimed at small businesses.

Idea: A single platform that allows developers to monitor apps, see the impact they have on the web, and see the performance of any single API endpoint

A software company that uses artificial intelligence to predict the effectiveness of a drug and adjust the dosage accordingly.

Taking a very different approach to the app idea, Crowdbucks is a crowdsourcing app for business owners that wants to help them get funded, with a credit card-based payment system and payment feature.

A smartphone app that allows employees to find the nearest cash and card-accepting ATM.

A machine learning platform for self-driving cars

A startup that wants to create a platform to help chefs monetize their skills by using them to create on-demand meals for customers. The startup, which was founded in February, is working on a platform that connects chefs with customers, who can then choose to pay for meals with cash or through a credit card.

Transnational startup that creates tools for small businesses and nonprofits to communicate in Korean. The company is working with a Korean NGO on the Korean-language version of Forecast.

A set of tools to help make a mobile app. The startup’s founder, Sam Om, has been working on the startup for over a

A tool that helps people create a video resume and use it to apply for jobs on companies’ websites.

A tool that lets restaurants and venues book and manage live performances.

Outsmart is building a data communication network for businesses to monitor and control their communication resources. They currently have $12,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

New York based startup that is taking the stress out of managing your own private cloud, allowing you to manage your own servers, backups, and other essential infrastructure.

The startup, which was founded in February, wants to help businesses get their products onto Amazon’s home delivery network. The company is currently in the midst of a $1.2 million seed round.

A subscription-based service for managing and sharing your money. The company is building a service for people who want a personalized, financial dashboard, but don’t want to pay the hefty $200 per month that a traditional financial advisor charges.

A bit like Couchsurfing, but for food.

A micro-lending startup that sets its own timelines for loan funding, instead of waiting for customers to have their credit histories evaluated by traditional banks.

An on-demand service that brings food to your door

A crowdsourced platform for mail-order brides that lets them communicate with potential suitors.

A business-to-business platform that helps small businesses, who can’t afford all the overhead of a big company like QuickBooks, manage their finances.

A startup that helps organizations get their data into the cloud, without resorting to competitors like Amazon S3.

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

A startup building tools for better monitoring of drones

A tool that automates the process of setting up and managing a B2B company in the Philippines. The company has already partnered with a few companies to help them navigate the process of setting up a company in the Philippines.

A startup for government contracts that’s supposed to save government agencies money.

A platform for companies to integrate their CRM and HR systems into one, with the goal of saving both time and money for the company.

A text-based game that turns education into a game and game into a tool. The startup wants to improve learning outcomes and make it more fun.

An online marketplace for selling used textbooks — a business that’s the only profitable part of the textbook industry.

A tool that brings together a person’s social graph and their budget to help them create goals, track progress, and receive rewards in a single app.

A cloud-based tool to prevent nursing home abuse by monitoring patient activity and alerting nursing homes if a resident is being abused.

This is a SaaS startup that helps companies build their own “digital communications platform” to manage and track their marketing efforts across different channels.

A self-driving construction vehicle that can detect objects and avoid them, and has the ability to drive in reverse.

A social enterprise, with a focus on childcare, women’s empowerment, and animal welfare

“The ‘as soon as’ time frame is the biggest problem with e-commerce,” said Sood. “A lot of people have a desire to buy, but they don’t have an immediate need.”

A healthcare subscription service for people wanting to track and keep tabs on their prescriptions. The company is building out a very simple and user friendly platform that saves users time and money by managing their prescriptions.

A startup that helps healthcare companies manage their patient records. The company provides software and services to help them make data easier to find. They have already run pilot programs with large insurance companies and hospitals.

A startup that helps people buy and sell digital services online

A startup that keeps tabs on health records and makes it easier for patients to share information.

This company is trying to bring the power of machine learning to stock markets. It’s working to create a way to use machine learning to find correlations between stock prices and macroeconomic data, to identify bubbles and create predictive models.

The app will make it easy for customers to book trips and delivery orders by selecting from a shortlist of the three most popular services, such as Uber and Postmates, and using a booking code to complete the purchase.

Another startup looking to challenge the status quo of the food delivery space. Olo wants to deliver a food service experience with a focus on healthy eating and delivery. It’s currently focused on New York City.

This is a startup that wants to make it easy for people to order and ship photos and prints. The company was created by an ex-Googler.

A “hiring engine” for freelance jobs, which bridges the distance between freelancers and businesses.

A startup for men’s fashion and accessories, focused on developing “the next generation of traditional men’s brands”.

A company that helps states build a network of local dispensaries. The startup currently provides software to the Colorado Department of Revenue, which they say has led to the creation of 2,000 jobs.

Zendrive is building an app to help businesses track employees’ mileage, mileage reimbursement, and mileage payments. Its pitch is that the average American drives 22,000 miles per year. It’s a familiar enterprise solution, but the startup wants to help track employees’ mileage and make sure it’s fair.

Automating the process of training and vetting employees to better manage employee churn.

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A platform that helps music artists with marketing, merchandising, and tour management. They have also launched a new app, PressPlay, that’s a digital music locker.

Idea: A tool to help people who don’t have a lot of money to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

A new way to buy and sell items in the world of cryptocurrencies

A tool that helps businesses monitor their spending for compliance purposes.

A digital freelance marketplace that helps small business owners find and pay their employees. The startup currently has over 1,000 small businesses on board and plans to add over 1,000 more in 2017.

A food delivery app that keeps track of a person’s nutrition, allowing them to see their dietary habits over time.

Designed to help clients define and measure their social impact, Consequence is a software company helping nonprofits and for-profits better track their impact. It helps clients measure the effectiveness of their programs and measure employees’ impact, too. The company has a $10 million Series A, with $1 million raised in its first round of VC funding.

"We help you manage your finances. We help you do it all in one place. We help you see what you owe and how much you owe."

An on-demand software company that helps publishers distribute content via direct selling and third-party platforms. It’s targeting the small business market, but will also be expanding into research, and wants to take on the business of direct selling.

This startup wants to be the “Uber for life insurance”, connecting people with insurance companies and giving them a single place to manage all their insurance needs.

This startup is building a tool for hiring talent for specific roles, rather than just hiring across a wide range of positions.

A startup that sells a physical card that lets you pay for things with your phone.

A platform for merchants to manage their business, with a mobile app for quick transactions and a cash-on-delivery option for customers.

A new social media platform that aims to reach the younger generations with a spoof of an old-school blog that lets users create posts, track them, and read them in real time.

A startup that helps students decide what college to go to, by matching them with data on schools’ average SAT scores, average AP scores, average graduation rates, and more. The company uses algorithms to draw on this data to match applicants to schools.

A startup that helps people track the progress of their projects; it wants to be the go-to app for everyone from athletes to artists.

A credit card payment platform that lets merchants accept credit cards on a physical retail location, without the risk of that location failing to pay the merchant.

A startup working on a program to prevent water damage in homes.

A startup that builds a data analysis system for the US Department of Defense. The company's software helps the military keep track of weapons, ships, and personnel.

A platform for volunteer-powered projects that allows citizens to crowdsource solutions to local problems. It helps cities and nonprofits connect with volunteers to solve challenges like pollution, hunger, homelessness.

A B2B company that provides “easy-to-use, but powerful” software that streamlines the data entry process of customer data, with plans to launch in 2020.

A social networking site for artists, allowing them to showcase their work, connect with other artists, and participate in the art community.

A company that has built a platform that brings together data from the likes of your Fitbit, Google Fit or Apple Health.

This startup is building an app that helps you browse and buy clothes in a world where it’s hard to find a style you like. At launch, the app will feature over 1,000 brands from across the world, but the plan is to expand to everything.

A web-based chat platform that provides employees with an easy way to manage their own work schedules.

This startup wants to bring the benefits of paperless medical records to India. They’re currently looking to partner with hospitals in India to make it easier to transfer medical records.

A startup that helps companies better attract and onboard talent in order to build more scalable teams.

A startup that allows you to buy, sell, and trade your own virtual goods and digital currency.

A company that helps small businesses manage their inventory using the cash flow and inventory data of a POS system.

The company targets the unlicensed, unregistered, and uninsured driver market in the US.

A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”

A dental software startup, which wants to help dentists and hygienists better communicate with patients.

Activell is a browser-based service that helps companies track and report their social media efforts. The startup says it can manage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram campaigns across the globe.

A startup that’s building a “buddy system” for children with autism, which connects them to other kids with similar developmental needs.

A startup that wants to create a universal code of conduct for employees, so that companies can be sure they’re following the same rules for everyone.

A company that wants to give people a way to track their fitness exercises and their progress in real time.

A tool for managing and administering email campaigns, based on a free-to-use API. The company says the software is meant to be simple and easy to use, with no learning curve.

A platform for building and managing employee performance reviews, based on a survey of the year’s most successful companies.

A tool that helps businesses and governments keep track of their data in real time.

A toolkit that helps people create their own apps, web sites, and software products.

A tool to help manage and visualize a company’s brands, marketing, and products.

A platform that helps companies search for and hire remote workers. Currently, they’re working with 1 company in their beta.

A financial services startup that helps individuals invest in their own retirement accounts.

A virtual assistant which helps to manage finances, create budgets and control expenses.

A free, ad-free, and un-nudged newsreader for iOS.

A startup that helps you create “gorgeous, shareable video stories” with just a smartphone.

A platform that turns any physical object into a digital token, like a phone case or a piece of clothing. The idea is that these tokens are collectible, to help people get the most out of their physical possessions.

A startup that helps people find reliable, well-reviewed doctors, and those doctors get paid to advertise.

A Slack-like platform for online chat rooms and one-on-one messaging using customizable avatars to represent each user.

A platform for small businesses to offer loans and credit, using data from their business to do so.

A small business-to-business startup that aims to be Uber for local services.

A startup that uses AI and machine learning to help companies predict their customers’ behavior, and to craft customer experiences better suited to those behaviors.

"These were the most popular ideas from the 9th batch."

A startup that aims to use the internet to improve the process of hiring an intern.

A content platform that helps keep people in the loop about social movements across the world.

The startup’s goal is to build a $500 device that can be used to produce electricity from small amounts of water, such as rainwater.

This company is building a digital store that lets people buy, sell, and trade everything from cars to real estate — all from the comfort of their home.

A startup that’s building a way to help people get their gas cheaper. The company is now in the process of raising funds to launch its platform.

Helps small business owners find the right talent, like accountants, lawyers and consultants. Things like word-of-mouth, LinkedIn, past client referrals and referrals from the company’s own customers are used to get business owners to the right talent.

A company trying to make it easier for developers to build and sell software.

A mobile messaging platform for workers in the oil and gas industry.

A startup that is building an algorithm that predicts the future of retail.

Idea: A community directory for short-term housing aimed at tourists and newcomers to a city. The startup is planning to expand to other cities in the future.

A platform that helps companies find people with specific skills, helping them find the right talent.

A platform that helps users find the right people and businesses to work with. A concept similar to LinkedIn, but instead of connecting people, it connects companies with freelancers, consultants, and talents.

In a world where companies work with dozens of suppliers, sometimes on a daily basis, it doesn’t make sense to have to use multiple tools. This B2B company wants to help companies manage their suppliers on a single platform, making it easier for them to do business.

A direct-to-consumer subscription service that offers physical products to customers.

A platform for managing connected devices in the home, that connects devices to a single hub.

Another application for the “copy on demand” model proposed by the likes of Airbnb and Uber.

A startup that helps users manage their "digital assets" including photos, music, text, and documents. The company says they already offer the ability to manage tasks, or "chores" in their app, which allows users to specify a daily or weekly routine, and the app tracks their progress. The company also offers a service that allows users to build "to-do lists" out of their digital assets.

A tool for managers to better manage teams and tasks. The B2B startup has a client list that includes Netflix and IBM.

A healthcare provider that uses AI to help doctors identify chronic illnesses and recommend effective treatments.

A startup that wants to help people clean up their bank accounts and credit card debt by helping them understand their credit report.

A startup that wants to connect the world’s waste to buyers.

A startup that sells a service to provide real estate agents for people who want to buy/sell a property without an agent

A platform that enables companies to manage their customer relationships on the Internet, making it easier to collect and analyze data and provide better customer service.

A platform that allows restaurants to automate their delivery processes and create a more consistent delivery experience.

A social platform for “millennial-friendly” news and entertainment. It’s now in private beta.

The app acts as a digital wallet for your car, helping you use your phone to buy gas and get directions, and to pay for parking and tolls in the city.

A tool for both people who want to learn how to code and for people who want to teach others. The idea is to use a “coding curriculum” to teach both a beginner and a more advanced user how to code in areas like WordPress.

A startup that connects online shoppers with Amazon.com via a mobile app. The startup is a spinoff of Amazon Prime Now.

A tool built for the Eureka moment in startups when they need to figure out their sales strategy.

Localization software that helps companies hire workers who can speak, read, and write in multiple languages.

A SMB-focused marketplace for small business loans, which has already closed $20M in loans and has more than 10,000 users.

A “unique” digital, on-demand product design service for clients.

A platform that connects people with home services and connects those services to people in need.

A startup that wants to help you make the most of your digital devices. For example, it wants to help you use your tablet as a digital sketchbook.

A firm that helps B2B companies understand their data. They’re also in the process of building a tool for companies to create a B2B team.

A platform that helps people manage their food and nutrition habits. The startup has a product that supports diabetes and weight loss.

A tool for designers to create interactive visualizations in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional software.

A company that helps coworkers connect and collaborate, allowing them to share and discuss ideas.

A health startup that helps people take care of their teeth. The idea is that you can brush your teeth, or at least do a good job of it, and it will be easier to get a good night’s rest.

An ecommerce platform for the Chinese market, allowing customers to purchase items online without leaving home.

A new way to build an app that can be used by anyone to create an app in minutes, from concept to launch. Users can build on top of a pre-built template to produce their own unique app.

A software platform that helps employers handle the administrative tasks that come with hiring.

A startup that measures and reports on the ethics and practices of companies and organizations. The startup shared a solution to a problem in which consumers and companies aren’t aware of the impact of their purchasing decisions.

The startup’s starting platform is for people who are looking to rent out their house for rent and revenue sharing.

This startup is building an AI that can automate the process of composing music (in the vein of the “brain-computer” interface).

A group of startups and investors that want to build a new, more inclusive type of urban campus

CEO and co-founder, Josh, is a self-proclaimed "Serial Entrepreneur." He's built startups in the past five years, including a few that were acquired by larger tech companies.

A tool that automates the process of setting up and managing a B2B company in the Philippines. The company has already partnered with a few companies to help them navigate the process of setting up a company in the Philippines.

A connected, customizable headband that tracks a user’s sleep patterns and offers feedback on how they can improve them.

A web platform that helps organizations manage their online marketing, sales, and CRM.

A visual design platform for brands & agencies that allows designers to see the visual impact of their designs before they hit production.

A “Mobile-first enterprise” platform that offers “one-to-many communication” for companies. It’s meant for companies with a “live, real-time workforce.” The startup has raised $150MM in venture funding.

A startup that helps you find nearby restaurants that offer delivery and online ordering

This company is building a platform for ride-sharing companies to work directly with customers.

A startup called Protoplasma is building a new kind of ad blocker: one that blocks ads in real time, without having to change your browser. It’s built around the idea of “content blocking”, or reducing the amount of time spent staring at ads while using a browser.

The software industry is just one part of the broader tech industry, but it is a big

A startup that uses AI to help retailers understand how their customer demographics are changing. The company says it can help retailers identify who their new customers are, and how they’re growing.

A company that’s building a tool for people to book and pay for apartment rentals.

A business that helps to hire, manage and pay designers who are looking to leave their job

A multi-level marketing tool for online courses, which allows users to create courses, and then sell access to them — similar to sites like Udemy.

A company that creates smart home accessories and technology for people who don’t want to deal with the technology themselves.

Shopify is looking to expand in India with the same model that Facebook used to build its business there, which is to make it easy for small businesses to get started.

A mobile payments startup that’s building a payments system based on the blockchain.

A platform to help companies identify and hire tech talent locally, rather than from a national pool.

A platform that helps people share what they are working on in a more elegant way.

A way to track parking tickets and fines, and to track meter time for parking tickets.

“A social life-tracking app for the digital age.” Users will be able to share and manage their social calendars as well as their personal goals and activities.

This startup helps companies get customer support from their existing customers. The company uses their own chatbot to answer customer support questions.

We’re in the middle of a renaissance of public speaking, with the rise of social media, and a rise in the popularity of TED Talks. But there’s a gaping hole where public speaking training and public speaking coaching should be. The founders of VLIVE want to solve the problem by providing live public speaking training and coaching to individuals based on their level of comfort.

A platform that connects people looking to travel with people looking for people to do things while traveling.

A platform to make the process of hiring a full-time employee easier. The company is building a budgeting tool that allows employers to see how much money they’re spending on their employees.

A startup that provides a service where people can send letters to their children and they’ll write back on their behalf

In India, there are millions of small businesses that don’t have a bank account. ManageBharat is a mobile app that helps these businesses manage transactions, pay taxes, and keep their books straight.

A startup that makes it easier for people to find out if a product is vegan, gluten free, etc

A startup that helps people learn how to play guitar. The idea is that you can play along with their built-in backing tracks and you can also practice to your own tracks.

A tool that automates the process of scheduling a meeting for two or more people.

A tool that enables users to automatically draft and share social media posts

A startup that helps people pick up and return things to a central location quickly. It’s an Uber-like service, but for things.

Idea: Use crowdsourced data to build a universal language translation app for developers

A startup that offers a platform for entrepreneurs to grow their online presence with social media, email, and live chats.

A technology platform for managing the “Internet of Things” that connects all devices together into one platform.

A company that works with agencies to improve their digital marketing and optimize ROI by helping clients understand how their digital marketing is performing.

A way to copyright performance art, or “capture the essence of an artistic performance.” It’s a sort of digital short film that you can collect and share with friends.

A sassy, sarcastic assistant that works on mobile. The startup’s founder, after building a small app for the same purpose, decided to build a full-fledged assistant, which works on mobile.

A way for people to take a photo of their food, and see where it came from and what was in it. It’s already up and running, and aims to keep customers up to date on the food they eat.

A startup that brings together the best deals from Groupon and Yelp.

The company wants to help the city of London manage its parking meters with a system that’s less expensive and more efficient than London’s current system.

A startup that uses facial recognition to help customers find, review, and purchase products online. Founded by the former CEO of UBER.

A startup that helps you learn to code by making you build a simple tool that you eventually turn into a real product. The startup’s co-founder saw a need for the same kind of bootcamps in the area, and created the site to fill it.

A company that allows people to create customized “banking services” for themselves, from getting their paychecks directly deposited to arranging overdraft protection or making payments online.

This startup offers an “unbiased” way to tell which colleges are the best for a student based on his or her preferences. The company uses data from the U.S. Department of Education to compare institutions based on various metrics like peer competition and graduation rates.

A startup that wants to help people donate and manage their health data from different providers. It works with over a dozen health providers, from Blue Cross Blue Shield to Kaiser Permanente.

A home-based career coaching system for women. The startup is currently in the testing stage, and plans to launch in the New York City area.

A startup that provides a concierge service to help people who are traveling to figure out where to eat and what to do

A startup that helps people find and book live conferences, and also organizes its own.

A machine learning tool for recommending books based on a user’s reading history.

An IQ test for children, with the goal of improving school performance and helping children become more successful.

A startup that provides a service where you can get a house cleaned for you and then get a certificate to get a discount at a local store

A startup that wants to make fitness apps as accessible as possible. It’s developing a service that can do things like send texts to your phone with workout time reminders and sets reminders on your phone for you to work out.

A startup that is developing a smart, mobile version of the SAT that would allow students to take the exam in a way that fits with their schedules and lets them review their answers on the go.

A software company that uses AI to reduce the manual work involved in filling out education forms for student loans.

A fast-growing startup that’s taken apart a $50 billion company and is building a new one.

A platform to create a digital marketing and advertising agency for small business owners.

Idea: Software for physical therapy practices

A platform for managing the recruiting process for job applicants. The startup has $1 million in revenue and 20 employees.

A startup that helps companies track everything they’re spending on marketing, with a dashboard for key insights.

A free employee referral program for companies with more than 100 employees, which they say allows companies to double their referrals and increases the number of employees they hire.

A platform that lets home buyers and sellers trade home inspections.

A tool that provides a simple way to import and export data from word documents to Spreadsheets, Google Docs and others.

A tool that provides a simple way to import and export data from word documents to Spreadsheets, Google Docs and others.

A startup that sells a software-based appliance that helps companies protect their data from

OPEN. is a fitness tracking platform that helps users keep track of their workout habits.

A startup that helps consumers shop for affordable products and services. As a consumer, you can search for products and services and make deals with the businesses.

An analytics platform for credit unions that wants to help them understand their customers better.

A startup that lets you do to your social media presence what you do to your personal email: use AI to curate your feed, and personalize it.

A legal e-discovery tool for lawyers that helps them determine what information is relevant to the case at hand.

This startup has developed a system that can be used by the military or a company to monitor their assets, from the price of a single barrel of oil to the temperature of a factory. They’ve been able to use the system for a car dealership to monitor the condition of their cars, for instance, and more.

A new way to sell concert tickets that’s built around a social network. The startup says it’s already signed 10,000 artists and 27,000 performers to its platform.

A startup that allows business owners to share their expense reports directly within their business app.

Micro-loans for the unbanked, with a minimum term of 9 months, a maximum term of 20 years, and a minimum interest rate of 2%. The goal is to offer a lifeline for the unbanked, who often have a hard time obtaining a traditional bank account.

This Boston-based startup wants to make it easier for urbanites to find the perfect park for all of their needs.

A subscription-based service that allows people to get their medical records from their primary care physician to a specialist at their choice for a fee. The company also claims that it can help people find specialists within a certain time frame.

A single-page application framework that aims to let developers build highly-optimized mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Modernizr is used by over 100,000 developers.

A crowdsourced site that lets users review local restaurants, then make reservations and order takeout.

A network of robot-powered drones that delivers packages to customers in real time.

The startup is working on a new type of mobile banking that’s mobile-first, and designed to provide easy access to traditional banking services like check deposits, bill pay, and direct deposit.

A tool that helps users find and use open source software.

A virtual assistant that can handle your “to do” list while you’re away.

A tool for searching and accessing email accounts. The company wants to be a “Google for email”, with users able to connect email accounts from different providers.

A credit card that helps people prepay their rent and utilities. The startup has signed up “thousands” of users, and is currently trying to raise $500,000 on Indiegogo.

A 3D virtual reality headset company that wants to make the world’s most comfortable VR headset. The company is trying to solve the “over-customization” of the current Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets.

A search engine for content that can be shared and clicked on by multiple users simultaneously.

A platform that helps small businesses design and manage user-generated online profiles and meta data for their products.

A meat delivery service for restaurants. The startup, which has raised a $500,000 seed round led by Khosla Ventures, is working with restaurants and chains to deliver lunch and dinner to customers in San Francisco, New York City, and Boulder, Colorado.

This startup is building a platform to help businesses manage their supply chains and track orders. It’s a SaaS platform for companies to track their inventory and manage their supply chains.

A platform for sharing and sharing experiences, taking the “sharing economy” to a new level. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences. Share.ly is a platform for sharing experiences.

A company that makes software for the hospitality industry, helping operations work more efficiently.

Real Democracy is a platform for elections, designed to make voting more accessible while improving the quality of elections.

Fintech startup that wants to help small businesses with cash flow and credit management.

A startup that makes a sensor that attaches to the outside of buildings and measures the humidity and temperature for every room. The startup is currently working with a handful of commercial buildings across New York City.

A startup for food trucks that allows them to connect with customers and post order details, as well as help them find customers in their area.

An API that operates as a feed of public data that can be augmented with user-specific data and then visualized in real-time.

A company that offers credit to disabled vets.

A startup that provides a directory of doctors who specialize in alternative medicine

A tool for building and managing social networks, with plans to add in things like a calendar, task management, document sharing, etc. through a new collaboration platform.

A tool for sales reps to get started with cold emailing and the sales cycle.

An open source software platform that helps companies manage their customer risk data through a unified and central platform

A startup that wants to disrupt the HR market by automating the job application process.

A platform that helps companies run meetings, trainings, and events. They’re working with over 200 organizations and have 10,000 paid users and 1 million free users.

This app helps content creators sell their products on Amazon, using a digital storefront.

This startup is building a platform to help farmers and ranchers generate and manage their data on a farm level.

A startup working on a software platform for schools to run a school’s entire day from one source. The product helps teachers manage schedules, run lessons, and manage student rosters.

A startup that provides a service for people who are in a crunch and need to get their carpets or floors cleaned

A “social” investing platform that connects pro-investors with the best opportunities for them to put their money to work.

This startup, which is focused on local Chinese media, aims to build a platform to help media companies target ads to specific consumers.

A company that is building a platform to help people get involved in public policy and political engagement.

Marketplace for vendors to buy and sell products made by other suppliers.

A medical travel insurance company that provides coverage to patients who need to travel for medical services.

A company that helps you organize your books, documents, and other media into an easy, searchable library.

A group of startups that wants to build a more flexible alternative to the more common SaaS model. The startups want to build tools that let people customize their solutions into “custom apps” that can be sold to customers directly.

A startup based in Brazil that says it's building a “self-driving” platform for online dating.

This startup wants to solve the problem of low-speed internet in developing countries. It wants to build a network of satellites that can beam internet to remote areas.

A new service that offers a way to automate marketing tasks like advertising, email marketing, and follow-up/updates.

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Paying bills is one of the biggest pain points for small businesses, and Taptu wants to solve that with a single, easy-to-use bill paying platform.

A startup that aims to help employees manage their work from home workflows on Slack, Github, and other services.

Visual Search is a tool that lets you create and share visual search results, like a game of connect the dots. The app lets users create their own visual search queries by dragging and dropping different images. It’s currently in private beta testing in the UK.

A tool that helps you discover new music based on the specific genre and mood you’re in.

A platform for medical tourism in India. The startup wants to help people stay healthy abroad.

A wearable device that monitors your heart rate and breathing patterns to help treat sleep apnea.

A smart lock that unlocks with your voice, hands, and face.

A company that aims to help people who don’t have money invest in mutual funds. It’s based in New York City.

A company that helps freelancers and consultants manage their work. It’s currently in private beta, with plans to launch out of beta in 2019.

A social network for the small, independent coffee shops that serve as anchors for a neighborhood. The startup wants to help coffee shops grow with a social network and start-up accelerator.

Building a product to help journalists stay safe from fake news and social engineering.

Idea: A game that teaches you how to code

A ready-to-mix drink company that makes simple, high-end cocktails at the push of a button. The company is currently in the process of raising seed capital.

A tool for email marketing and customer support.

A platform that connects businesses with the expertise they need to grow and scale.

A system for converting and archiving physical documents for the purposes of insurance fraud.

A health and fitness startup that provides a space to buy and sell fitness equipment and nutrition.

A social app that helps users find restaurants, bars and other local businesses on their phone, with a list organized by category like food and drink or nightlife.

A managed marketplace for people looking for care for people with special needs. The startup is a “high touch” operation, meaning it doesn’t just hope to make money but also wants to make a difference for people with disabilities.

A company creating a platform for teachers to communicate to parents and students in a more effective way.

A startup for customers to get access to customized marketing products and services. The company is making it easier for marketers to build community-based campaigns.

A platform that helps companies build their own “anchor stores” — the “experiences” that people want to do in a particular city. For example, a company like Amazon might want to open up a store in San Francisco, but they’re not the first company to do so. The startup builds out a list of all the other stores in the area, and allows companies to apply to open up a new one.

Plain is an SMS system that allows people to pay others with their phone in the middle of deals and automate payments to vendors.

Playboard is an AI-powered tool that helps automate the search for new hires and finds data to validate job candidates.

This Silicon Valley startup is building a way for creators to build “by-God” apps for businesses. The company’s products are aimed at Fortune 500 companies, but their software can be used to solve a wide range of problems for SMBs and non-profits.

A hub to connect doctors with patients who need surgeons, allowing the doctor to offer the surgeons a patient pool

A startup that coordinates small businesses, helping them to set up a smooth transition to the next employee

A community of designers and engineers building new products on top of the Internet of Things, with a community of 150,000 monthly users.

Convenience store chain in California.

In India, there are millions of small businesses that don’t have a bank account. ManageBharat is a mobile app that helps these businesses manage transactions, pay taxes, and keep their books straight.

A startup that helps companies hire remote workers with salaries matched to local salaries. The company says its revenue is growing by 50% month over month.

A startup that builds a platform for hospitals to manage their supply chain and offers the ability to purchase 3rd party medical devices and software.

This startup wants to help consumers find the right beauty products. The startup focuses on the US and Canada, and is starting off with a $1,000+ list of beauty products to help users find the right one.

A startup that provides a way to identify fake news by tracking the amount of engagement it gets on social media.

A startup in Singapore that plans to replace the human middleman in real estate transactions with an AI-powered software platform. It’s currently running a pilot in Singapore, and plans to launch in Australia next year.

A platform for music-lovers to share their musical creations

A smart contract platform for digital currency transactions. A standout feature: the platform is entirely autonomous, allowing users to set their own rules for how currencies are exchanged.

An online media publishing tool for creating and curating videos for social media and targeted website traffic. The startup wants to make it easier to create and distribute visuals for any social media platform.

A startup to help employers manage employee wages, benefits, and health insurance through an online portal.

A startup that sells food that is healthy and cheap and also helps people lose weight

A platform that makes it easy to share and discover the best of the best in photo-editing, design and motion graphics.

This company builds educational tools for students in the US and Canada.

A spin-off from the team behind The Daily, a news app for the iPhone and iPad

A “library of points of interest” that allows users to search a 3D Spatio-temporal map, which they can then mark as favorites. The startup says their “points of interest” are more than just “coffee shops, restaurants and art galleries” and that their map will be “a more inclusive, relevant and vivid alternative to Google Maps”.

A tool that allows users to quickly find a doctor and schedule a visit from their mobile device. The startup’s website is now a platform for thousands of doctors in the US to set appointments on a first-come first-serve basis.

A startup that wants to use blockchain to ensure that doctors and patients can be sure that the products they buy, from vitamins to birth control, are the real thing.

A startup that tries to deliver a “return on investment” for security, allowing businesses to get a lot of value out of a physical security guard.

A realtime database that crunches social media and digital marketing analytics from realtime sources. The startup is focusing on the UK market.

A “mobile app of the future”. The startup is building a platform that syncs with a person’s phone and card transactions, allowing them to make purchases and see their transactions on a cohesive dashboard. The company is looking to integrate with banks, credit card companies, and retailers.

Pitch: A learning platform for students, with gamification and a “social network” feeling.

A digital payments platform for the emerging markets. The startup wants to help companies who don’t have access to traditional banking services in developing countries.

A company that helps companies and individuals find the best local plumbers for renovations and repairs.

A chatbot that helps people eat better. The startup is targeting the $20 billion global market in the next 5 years.

An AI bot that helps writers write.

A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.

A tool for helping to identify fraud in credit card transactions, then helping to fight against it.

Pitch Deck Hacker is an open-source tool that helps users build their own pitch deck.

A startup that provides on-demand classes for people who want to learn a new skill but don’t have time to take classes

A software company that brings AI to the process of hiring software talent, to help businesses make better decisions.

A startup that’s building a product to help people meet and collaborate with like-minded people in their area.

A “library of points of interest” that allows users to search a 3D Spatio-temporal map, which they can then mark as favorites. The startup says their “points of interest” are more than just “coffee shops, restaurants and art galleries” and that their map will be “a more inclusive, relevant and vivid alternative to Google Maps”.

A software company building a web platform for small businesses to use for marketing and sales, with many of its customers already using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The company claims it’s already had over 1,000 customers sign up to use its platform, and has raised $1.2 million.

A startup that aims to make it easier for marketers to get their wares in front of creative people, and for creative people to get paid for their work.

A startup using a combination of machine learning and an artificial intelligence program to improve customer service.

A tokenized, weighted investment that invests in startups in a curated way, helping investors diversify and make more informed investments.

A platform that makes it easier for employees to request time off. The startup is looking to partner with the HR department of a company to help employees request time off. It has raised $2.3M in seed funding.

Idea: This startup is building machine learning software that helps people create smoother panning and zooming in videos. The startup previously sold a product called Flycam that helps camera operators smoothly move from one part of the scene to another.

A company that helps people get the right insurance for the right price. The startup’s model allows customers to purchase a lifetime policy for a low monthly price.

A startup that is developing an integrated software platform for the cannabis industry. This is a very large, very hot market.

The founders at this startup want to help restaurant owners around the US increase sales and profits for their businesses.

A startup that helps contractors bid for jobs, with a focus on projects that are often hard to nail down.

A tool for generating custom, personalised, and branded video content.

A startup that’s helping to teach 4,000 students a month in the Bay Area how to code.

A company that builds “smart” tools for home cooks and foodies. They’re looking to develop a web-based platform for those who want to cook, with a calendar, shopping list and recipe editor.

Idea: A startup for entrepreneurs who want to get in touch with investors Early users say it’s helped them raise $50,000

This app is designed to help users learn to drive new vehicles and learn in a way that’s more visual and less boring.

A startup that wants to create an online store that uses artificial intelligence to automatically find and purchase items that match a customer’s taste and preferences.

A company that builds vehicle tracking devices for businesses like car washes to help them better understand their workers’ locations.

A startup for musicians to get backing from others who support their music, and for fans to support them back.

A startup that helps property managers keep track of their portfolio using AI

A startup to help the underprivileged in the U.S. with legal aid.

A digital assistant for the wine industry, helping professionals like sommeliers and winemakers learn from the data they have without having to manually track it.

A startup for startups looking to grow internationally. It’s a more self-serve approach than other startups, but the founders believe that they can provide the best service for a given price.

Services for the insurance industry, like a SaaS tool to help insurance companies automate claims processes.

A startup that helps companies manage and track the money spent on their branded conference rooms at hotels.

A portfolio manager for the modern market. Opporto is a startup that wants to take a more active approach to portfolio management, cutting out the “passive” aspect of asset allocation and focusing on the more active management of portfolios. The startup aims to make money by charging a percentage of the assets in an investor’s portfolio, based on how they’re managed.

A company that generates software for making customized, branded plastic food containers for restaurants, fast food chains and other food-service businesses.

A startup that aims to create a “digital neighborhood” for those interested in digital security

A chatbot for managing and responding to customer reviews.

A new service for small businesses to manage their fleet of contractors on one platform. The company’s working with 8 enterprise pilots.

A company that makes it easier for businesses to publish and manage their URLs, which are often a pain point in running a company.

A product that helps people make a better choice between advertised and real-time prices of stocks.

A way of helping people track their credit card transactions.

A cloud-based platform for e-commerce that allows sellers to create their own storefronts.

WeWork is the largest shared workspace company in the world, with over $6 billion in funding and over 2 million members. WeWork wants to offer its members a range of services like gyms, cafes, and other add-ons that can help their members live healthier and happier lives.

A customer service platform that lets customers ask questions about their accounts in a more accessible way.

A startup that helps healthcare providers manage their patient data. The startup aims to make it easier to manage patient data and make it easier to see the data.

A tool for building, hosting, and connecting with data-driven digital products

A “food-delivery-as-a-service” startup that has launched in LA, San Francisco and New York. It’s a Web-based ordering system for restaurant kitchens, letting them order food for pickup or delivery and track delivery times.

A platform that allows users to manage and track their own equipment via a website or mobile app. Inspired by the 2015 startup Nuvigil, the startup wants to make the management of physical assets more accessible.

A startup that is building a way for users to create and share animated GIFs within their social media networks. The company offers a free plan with premium features.

A way to share video, images and documents with a group of people, even if they’re hundreds of miles from each other.

A group of entrepreneurs in San Francisco who are building a tool for managing the logistics of selling a house. The app, called Apprise, is meant to help sellers manage their home and prepare it to list on the market.

A startup co-founded by a former Googler, Qwant is trying to recreate some of the magic of the Google search results page with a new, more visual UI. The startup is trying to compete with Google for the European market.

A B2B startup that helps companies manage their expenses related to managing and tracking their employees’ health care expenses.

The startup makes it easier for brands to connect with their customers via websites, mobile sites, apps, and in-person events.

A “customer care” app that integrates with Uber and Lyft.

The product of the Design Accelerator, this startup is building a tool to help people visualize their finances.

A platform and API for the sharing of restaurant data, with the goal of helping restaurants be more efficient and gain insights into their business.

The startup is building a platform that allows writers to create a book with a digital version of the book for readers to read for free.

A platform for organizing and sharing resources, especially by those with expertise in a particular field or trade.

A platform for companies to send and receive money from customers and suppliers very cheaply. It aims to be the PayPal of the developing world.

A company that’s building a platform to help tenants and landlords in the US remotely manage properties, including maintenance and repair services, through a web app.

Another startup that’s building a video conferencing tool with real-time collaboration features.

A startup that turns the receipt from a restaurant into a QR code. The startup is looking to turn receipts into a way to promote restos and one-off experiences.

A platform for small business owners to communicate in real-time with other small businesses for things like inventory, deliveries, and maintenance.

A way to check in with your employees from anywhere, using a combination of video chat and a mobile app.

A startup that makes deliveries like Amazon that come to your door via a private fleet of cars. GetGo is currently in San Francisco.

A person-to-person lender that is “taking the risk out of lending money” with lower interest rates.

A startup that brings a “GIF-ified” version of the popular virtual reality game, Pokémon Go, to the real world. In the game players collect virtual creatures called “Pokemons” by moving around in the real world. The startup is building a mobile app that uses your phone’s GPS and camera to track your movements and turn them into Pokemons.

A tool that helps businesses in the UK organize a “Boomerang Closing”, a party that gathers employees together when they leave the company.

This startup is looking to make it easier for companies to build and deploy machine learning models. The company uses a “human-to-computer” interface to walk users through the process of building a machine learning model to make it as easy as possible for anyone to take part in the process.

A company that sells a digital “health pass” allowing people to access gym facilities and track their progress.

A mobile app to help you book the cheapest flights in 30 seconds.

A startup that offers a platform for network marketers to build teams and market to them, but also help them run their businesses more effectively.

“Echo” is a new retail platform that allows customers to buy goods from a selection of over 1,000 brands, with a selection of goods from 70,000 product designers. In addition to a platform for customers to search for things to buy, Echo also offers a sales channel for retailers.

A way to help workers manage their taxes based on their earnings

A SaaS platform which allows companies to create free online surveys to gauge customer interest in new products and services. The startup is looking to expand its offerings to content, research, and other types of online surveys.

This is a carpooling service for drivers looking to save money on gas and time. It’s also a way for drivers to find fares for ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, as long as they’re willing to take a longer drive.

A startup that provides an AI-based technology that matches people with jobs based on their skill sets and location.

A new company to help people make connections in a city, using a “social media platform for the community”

An online learning tool for those with a background in IT to learn the latest in cybersecurity. The startup is looking to partner with schools and other companies to help teach students.

A platform for artists, musicians, and others to make money on YouTube without relying on ads.

A crowdfunding platform that specializes in helping startups and small businesses get off the ground by lending them money and by providing them with a platform to raise money.

A startup for the intellectual property management industry.

The company is building a simpler, more intimate way to book flights. It’s a “visual” travel planner, with a clean interface that’s easy to use, but it also lets you manage all your travel from one place.

A “location intelligence platform” that provides insight into the performance of restaurants (sales, etc) across the country.

A software-as-a-service tool for businesses to create and manage their own marketing campaigns without needing to know the intricacies of running a digital marketing agency.

A new kind of recruiting site that’s much more personalized. It’s designed to be a social recruiting platform, but with a focus on “the right person for the right job”.

A tool for HR professionals to create training programs on the fly. The company’s co-founder went through a lot of frustration finding training programs for employees, so he wrote his own.

This startup wants to make sure you never miss a call from your boss or a client again. The startup’s app lets you see when someone’s calling you on your phone with a “call waiting” feature, and make it easy to connect with them.

A startup that helps small businesses with staff management, billing, and payroll through a full-blown employee portal.

A company that helps small businesses get online. It provides website and mobile app design, marketing, and hosting for a one-time fee that includes a year of maintenance.

A mobile-first payments alternative that focuses on micropayments. The startup aims to take a cut of each transaction and hopes to revolutionize the way small businesses pay for goods and services.

An economic, privacy-centric decentralized messaging platform that uses a “protocol layer,” or messaging layer, based on IPFS. A messaging protocol could be used in a variety of ways, but the company’s focus is to create a decentralized, secure messaging protocol that can be used by internet users.

A chat bot that lets people through meditation than can be used to help people battle depression

A startup for freelancers, providing a venue where employers and freelancers can use an “open-source” to find and hire each other.

A company that works with independent artists to help them turn their music videos into YouTube plays.

A company that offers software for managing and sharing live video content (think Facebook Live)

A software company that provides a way for companies to connect with their customers and prospects via livestream.

SaaS business that helps people create websites and handle their content, which they say is “not enough”.

A medical device that makes a doughnut-shaped balloon around a person’s finger, helping to prevent blood clots. The device is currently in Phase 1 clinical trials.

A startup that helps you manage your Amazon Prime shopping. The startup makes it easier to find and purchase discounted items, and even provide a digital receipt.

A home insurance startup that aims to provide better customer service and lower rates by acquiring less expensive medical data. The company also has a service where it can put together a customized health plan for you.

A company that builds a facial recognition system that can unlock doors, control lights, and other things.

Music-streaming service for small independent bands and musicians. The startup is looking to be a competitor to sites like Pandora, but with a more customizable sound. It’s currently in beta.

A system for converting and archiving physical documents for the purposes of insurance fraud.

A social network for women who are searching for a job, created by the company that created the job board Ziprecruiter.

A tool that helps prevent cybercrime and spam by flagging suspicious emails.

A startup that helps travelers rent cars for a day or a week at a time. The startup wants to rent vehicles from manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes Benz.

A startuplicant tracking and talent management platform that helps companies plan and manage their recruitment, as well as manage the time and money they spend on it.

A 3D modeling tool for UI/UX designers, who can create immersive 3D models to help visualize their ideas.

This startup is working on a new type of storage for the connected home, where it can be both a sort of “in-home cloud” as well as an “in-home NAS”.

A platform for remote workers, providing a series of tools designed to help companies manage work-life balance.

An in-app survey tool that helps users of mobile games collect feedback on their game experience

A software company that wants to help people learn Mandarin. It uses online games to make a language accessible to everyone.

A simple way to keep track of your bills, from groceries to utilities, or to calculate monthly payments by combining several bills.

A text-based messaging platform that serves as a go-to for employees and students to communicate with their employers and schools.

A mobile payment provider for restaurants, like Square, but for restaurants in the US and Canada.

A new textbook for medical students and residents, meant to help them learn and retain information.

A company providing a free online platform for live music, planning concerts, selling tickets, and collecting royalties.

A company that wants to make it easier to sell stuff online, both on Amazon’s platform and on your own website.

This SaaS business helps businesses keep track of their legal bills, including which law firm they’re paying the bill to.

A company that provides tools for entrepreneurs to start and manage their own retail stores.

A tool for people to find and connect with other people in their area to do things like go to dinner, hike, or see a movie.

A company that helps online businesses build their own email marketing tool, offering a free suite of tools, including a software-as-a-service offering.

A co-working space in Hong Kong with office spaces, event space, and coworking services.

A tool that helps companies and organizations get their customer interactions and payments into a single interface. The startup wants to make it easier for companies to get paid for their customers’ transactions.

A startup that helps NGOs improve their finances and give salespeople more money.

This startup wants to make it easier for people to find the services they need, especially in the case of medical emergencies and natural disasters.

A tool that enables you to create custom groups of contacts on your smartphone and send targeted messages to them.

A company that gathers data from 10 million office spaces around the world and uses AI to predict how offices will be used in the future. The startup, which launched in May, will use this data to help companies with building out spaces in the future, by using it to determine which workspaces are most needed.

A web-based tool that helps customers find, compare, and book oil changes, car washes, and other services.

A company that wants to help companies customize payment plans for their employees

A startup that makes it easy to pay for goods at brick-and-mortar stores via mobile phone

A messaging platform that helps foster connections between coworkers and customers. The app, which is based on the GroupMe model, is meant to be used in your spare time, during lunch, or after work.

A platform that helps people ask for things on their phones. The startup has been working with a number of companies and wants to expand their platform into other verticals.

A ‘productivity assistant’ that helps users get more done by connecting everything from email to calendars to files.

A mobile platform that allows you to order a service, such as a ride-share or a delivery, right from your phone and pay with your phone.

A startup that makes it easier for people to find a lawyer when they need one

A startup that was founded in May, a company that helps the financial industry with compliance and regulatory compliance.

The world’s first ad-free news app, designed to be a more ethical and trustworthy alternative to services like Facebook, Google and Twitter.

A project management tool for teams.

A company that helps people get a loan based on the value of their business. The company is currently working with seven small businesses in the UK.

iCandy is a B2B company that helps companies to create and manage digital gift cards.

A company that lets shoppers get free and easy access to their credit scores, one of the most important financial tools to a consumer.

A business intelligence tool that helps businesses collect, organize, and analyze their data.

Tomo is building a way to make it easier for businesses and other organizations to handle their customer data. They’re a self-hosted app for multiple cloud providers, letting people create databases and use them for marketing, CRM, and analytics.

When you need to track the movement of your employees, you rely on email. Clew wants to build out a suite of applications that would let employers track their employees’ physical location.

Idea: A company that offers an API for receiving payments through SMS. The company’s pitch: “We make money moves.”

A small business-to-business startup that aims to be Uber for local services.

Well-being is a startup that wants to help people manage their stress with an artificial intelligence-enabled app.

A startup that sells an innovative model of “waste-to-fuel” that turns waste into electricity.

A tool to help with product management by allowing you to reuse assets, or “sketches”. One example the company gives is an ultrasound sketch of a fetus that can be turned into a 3d model to be used as a marketing collage.

This startup wants to provide a platform for businesses to build tools that automate marketing tasks.

A company that wants to make a bank card that can be used across the world

A tool that uses artificial intelligence to help companies find data-driven insights and recommendations that they can act on in business. Pitch uses machine learning to run through data sets to find the insights and recommendations.

A complete package for in-person recruiting events. When you schedule an event, you can mark candidates’ interests on a map, create a class schedule with break times, and then send that info to candidates in a text message.

A startup that uses machine learning to help people learn more languages. The company says that “language learning is too useful not to be automated.”

A digital assistant for scheduling and delegating tasks to employees.

A startup that provides a service for professionals to post their resumes so that recruiters can find them

A new way to find great local coffee.

A digital assistant that lets users set reminders and send notifications to their phone. The startup is building a service on top of Slack.

A software company that helps companies audit their supply-chains. The company’s founders say the startup has already helped clients like Target, Procter & Gamble, and DHL to save on several hundred millions in inventory.

A startup that helps people find new places to work by aggregating job openings from its network of freelancers.

A startup that lets users create custom clip art, sharing it with friends and family via text or email.

A company that’s built to help women discuss and learn about their periods.

A tool for monitoring performance of a website and user interactions.

A startup that helps insurance companies manage their customer accounts and claims. Founded in May.

This startup is building a system that’ll help healthcare providers in the US better manage their billing and patient records.

A startup that wants to offer a safer way for people to get their cars repaired.

A micro-payments platform for point-of-sale machines, allowing merchants to use the app to process and collect payments for small items.

Another company looking to build a social media platform for dating, focusing on the Latinx market in the US.

An AI-powered digital assistant that helps people track their health and wellness. The startup wants to help people start taking better care of themselves, with a tool “that helps you make the right decisions throughout your life”.

A platform for helping the developing world manage the increasingly important issue of climate change.

A tool for tracking expenses for business travelers, allowing companies to charge employees for their travel expenses.

A startup that wants to bring an inventory-based mobile commerce platform to the store of the future. It wants to track inventory in real-time, without the need of a physical store.

A company that helps companies turn data into insights, allowing them to spot trends and make better decisions. Their data platform is built on top of SQL and Python.

A tool for coordinating a group’s shopping trip with a single destination by using an app to do the driving.

The digital version of a pest control service. The startup’s team is small but they’re growing fast. They’ve raised $1.2 million and are looking to expand into the Northeast and Midwest.

A platform for managing secure crypto wallets. The startup is making it easier for small businesses to manage their digital assets.

A software company for small businesses that aims to help them improve their accounting, bookkeeping and payroll.

A software company that creates text-based virtual assistants to perform tasks on behalf of the user.

A mobile app that helps people find top-rated doctors or clinics that treat a specific illness or illness category (type 2 diabetes, back pain, etc.)

A way for marketers to track their Facebook ad campaigns in real-time, with a dashboard to see which ads are performing the best.

A mobile app that helps people going to airports find the best flights and prices, using a data-driven algorithm to get them to their destination on time.

A startup to help companies communicate with employees, customers, and partners.

A new startup venture with a focus on the growing trade of personal data. The startup wants to help consumers control their data and the tools companies can use with it.

A startup that will allow people to build websites for their local community, and then charge a monthly fee for that service.

A wearable device that allows people to control their smart home devices with their movements without having to go hands-on.

A text-to-speech app, allowing users to call up text they record and have it spoken aloud in their voice.

A company that wants to give medical students the tools to study medicine.

A startup that helps people with chronic pain manage their medications and other treatments. It’s a tool that helps users keep track of their meds and treatments, and helps them stay motivated to stay healthy.

A startup that helps consumers shop for affordable products and services. As a consumer, you can search for products and services and make deals with the businesses.

This startup is building a platform to help journalists write better. It’s best for longer writing, and it lets you know which writing styles and topics are best for you.

A company that lets you build and sell e-books similar to Amazon or Create Space.

A platform that allows users to swap/sell/trade their data. The startup is looking to use the data to help people understand and make decisions about their health. The company is looking to build out a full-scale health platform.

Since the economic crisis, companies have been struggling to find the best way to track their internal performance. HR software company TheWorkPlace has launched a new product that turns spreadsheets into actionable information, presenting managers with data on employee performance in real-time.

A global insurance company that helps people buy and insures their homes via a mobile app. The startup is looking to operate in 30 countries.

a tool to help people measure and reduce the impact of their social media use on their personal and professional lives. It’s been downloaded over 1 million times.

A company that’s building a dashboard for cities to track the impact of their programs and metrics for investors. It’s looking to target dozens of cities, from Portland to Detroit.

A company that helps small businesses create marketing collateral without using their own design team

A B2B company that builds software to help companies manage their “value-at-risk”, an estimate of how much money they could lose each year if things go awry.

A program to help small startups with capital raise and growth

A chatbot that helps you manage your personal brand. The startup aims to be the first company to bring a full-service personal branding platform to the web.

A startup that wants to provide “secure and private” chat rooms for people to meet up, without having to give out personal information.

ikitd is a meetup-like community that offers users a place to share ideas, experience, and learn from others. The startup offers a way to organize and share ideas.

A platform for product managers and engineers to collaborate on building software products, with a focus on helping teams at big companies get things built quickly and iterate rapidly. They charge a percentage of monthly revenue.

A software company that simplifies the process of creating digital marketing campaigns for small businesses by using a drag and drop interface and AI.

This is a software-as-a-service platform that allows members to buy and sell bitcoin with zero fees. The startup currently only works with digital currencies, and only with verified users, but plans to expand its service to other financial instruments in the future.

A tool built for the Eureka moment in startups when they need to figure out their sales strategy.

A project-based funding program that lets companies quickly raise money when they need it.

A platform that allows players to build and play their own video games. It’s currently in its beta stage, but the founders plan to launch in 2020.

A startup that has an online forum for people to talk about their problems For example, they would help people going through a divorce or would help people who are going through a hard time at work

A startup that helps small businesses take advantage of a new type of insurance: self-funded insurance.

An enterprise solution for managing the logistics and inventory of your supply chain.

An API for funding startups from the world’s largest banks.

A startup that helps people with autism and similar conditions find roommates and support.

A personal finance app that helps millennials manage their finances while they’re still in school. The startup is looking to get their product into schools around the US and start a scholarship program for those who use the app.

A SaaS platform to help companies build their own custom, branded apps. The startup has built a gallery of “storyboards” that businesses can use to develop mobile apps, and then sell them to clients for a flat $100.

A company that will let companies in different regions pay for services and products from their local market.

The startup wants to use AI to scour the web for posts, contacts, and images of famous people and then match them to people who would benefit from learning from what they’ve achieved. It’s a kind of crowdsourced social media, with a revenue share model.

A collaborative platform for artists to work on projects together.

A platform for sharing science/tech knowledge that goes beyond just classrooms. The platform aims to break down the barriers between academia and the next generation of scientists and engineers. It’s currently in the private beta testing phase.

A solution for managing and storing information in the physical world, from paper records to files to folders.

A software platform that stores and shares your memories in a private, secure and public-facing format.

A consumer-focused fintech product that combines BitGold, mobile payment, and cryptocurrency. It’s available on iOS and soon to be Android.

A renewable energy startup that helps entrepreneurs build solar projects. The company says it installed over 2 megawatts last year and has plans to install more this year.

A company that wants to use artificial intelligence to help people grow their Instagram presence.

A company that tracks student loan default rates.

A platform that brings the benefits of crowdfunding to the traditional credit card industry.

A unified file system for businesses to collaborate.

Advice on what to do when you’re laid off, pitched as a tool that helps you “land your dream job” after you’ve been laid off.

A platform that helps channel partners grow their businesses by helping them bring in more customers.

Part of Y Combinator’s revised application process, revised from the one from the summer, includes a video introduction from the founders. Some of the founders have also been blogging about their experiences.

Ponzi-like investment scheme for the bitcoin community. They are a bitcoin company that offers a service which allows people to invest or lend bitcoins without having to exchange them for other currencies. The startup is currently only operating in India, with plans to expand to other countries.

Device that measures the amount of air pollution and helps users find the best way to reduce their exposure.

A healthcare startup that helps doctors make better decisions on patient diagnoses and treatments. The startup is a data-driven company that uses machine learning to help doctors make better decisions.

A software company that helps retailers sell more products in-store by giving them tools to measure sales in real-time.

A “remote work management platform”, helping people manage hundreds of remote workers.

A smart electric scooter, that works with an app on your phone to track your location, speed, and battery level.

A startup in the financial services space that helps banks get banking relationships from clients.

A startup for selling and buying used cars. The startup plans to build a national network of used car dealers to help consumers meet sellers of similar cars. The startup will take a moderate percentage of the sale.

Focuses on the logistics of retail and automates the process of moving inventory around the supply chain. The company has built a platform to allow retailers to upload their inventory, manage their orders, and manage their employees’ time.

A startup that helps you manage your Amazon Prime shopping. The startup makes it easier to find and purchase discounted items, and even provide a digital receipt.

A platform for lenders to offer loans backed by real estate.

A platform that’s integrated with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant that connects users with personal trainers for workouts based on their personal fitness goals.

A new way of paying for groceries. Instead of swiping a credit card, shoppers use their phones to scan a QR code for payment and a receipt.

This startup is building a mobile app that helps people track their sleep patterns, which are correlated to numerous health issues.

A tool that helps people learn to code using IoT data and cloud computing.

A small business loan for entrepreneurs, with a focus on women

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A messaging app that syncs with Slack, WhatsApp, and other platforms.

The startup is building software for waste management companies that allows them to track, manage, and channel their waste, from the moment it’s generated to the moment it’s disposed of. The startup is working with clients like Recyclart and others.

A startup that lets anyone create and sell online courses, with course creators getting a 70% commission on sales.

These guys have a chatbot called “Alexa” that helps you track down a product you may have ordered. The company has integrated with major e-commerce companies to provide the service to their customers.

An AI startup that uses machine learning to create a virtual but not overwhelming sales assistant and help people get their questions answered.

A platform for creating and sharing training videos, which uses the webcam and microphone on a computer to record and edit a visual demonstration.

An in-app payment system for businesses that want to accept cryptocurrency.

A B2B company building an app that helps companies get into government contracts. Their app helps companies get contracts that are in line with the company’s core values.

This startup is building a mobile app that helps patients manage their health insurance. The startup is currently focused on the UK market.

A health startup that has built a software to help patients manage their symptoms and pain.

A company that wants to make it easier for companies to recruit and train contractors. It sells software to connect contractors and companies, and is in the news because it’s a competitor to Handy.

A company that wants to replace the bar code on your shelf with a UPC code.

A startup that helps brands and retailers reach their customers based on their location.

A startup that wants to give young adults a place to nurture their entrepreneurial spirit. The company looks to bring together startups and would-be entrepreneurs to help them make the leap.

A personal emergency notification app for your phone.

a service that allows employers to find and track jobs from their website, and have job applicants apply through their site

A company that will make old-school kids toys and games fun again

An online marketplace that connects short-term rental landlords with vacationers looking for short-term rentals in your city. Their service is free and the company is currently offering free-trial usage.

Ecommerce for the sharing economy, with an internal marketplace for tasks like dog walking and house cleaning, and an external marketplace for things like carpooling or Lyft, Uber or Lyft integration.

A company that aims to make an “energy-harvesting” machine that can harvest heat from space and use it to heat homes.

A software company that helps employers, recruiters and job seekers find each other and connect.

A text-based message-board system built on the open-source project of the same name. BookClub allows users to write messages, read other messages, and share links to articles. Add/remove friends, send and receive messages, and add emojis to your message.

A program that helps businesses and nonprofits engage their volunteers through social media, newsletters, and email.

The founders are looking for a big bank to partner with them on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to help people take better care of themselves.

The idea is to help people and companies sell, buy and aggregate goods, services, or experiences. It’s part of a larger directory for local businesses, which is currently live in the Philly area.

A company that works with electric vehicle owners to provide maintenance services.

A new way to categorize the world’s natural resources, and the goal is to help governments better understand where the world’s resources are.

Yaso is building a marketplace for businesses to sell their services on, and a way to crowdsource project management. It’s currently live in Rio de Janeiro, and has built a team of 100 people.

A startup to help people find the best rate for an apartment, whether it’s to rent or sell. The startup wants to enable apartment search for people with low to no credit, helping them get the best rate.

A high-end, high-margin business-to-business e-commerce platform for professional services that started off as a B2B tool for lawyers but has since expanded to business-to-consumer.

A startup that wants to help people get on the property ladder by connecting them with companies that can help them get the financing. The company has 50 employees and has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.

Making it easier for companies to create and manage employee benefits programs. Built on top of the Forza platform, it’s designed to be more than a simple HR platform.

A cybersecurity and privacy company that helps companies ensure that their data is kept safe.

A shipping company that does not use the USPS. The startup wants to get more of the e-commerce market for small packages.

A startup designed to “empower” women in India to take control of their health.

Maps.me is a mapping service that works offline

An investigation tool that helps healthcare facilities track the cause and severity of infections, and ultimately reduce the number of patients going to the hospital.

An IoT platform for tracking and managing the temperature and moisture levels in your home so you can manage heating and cooling costs.

A platform for events and conferences, with a focus on the social aspects of attending events.

A platform for people to raise capital from the public with the goal of solving problems. The company is working on a survey-artifact interface, which they’re using to get feedback about the products they’re building.

An AI that can determine what a customer wants, based on their social media likes and shares.

Something similar to Apple Music for Spotify, but for podcasts.

This is a carpooling service for drivers looking to save money on gas and time. It’s also a way for drivers to find fares for ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, as long as they’re willing to take a longer drive.

A tool to help companies fundraise more effectively, including structured events where key people pitch to funders.

The company is a contact-management app that is free but also has a free plan that is a bit more limited in features. The paid plan offers more robust features like a calendar and a list of contacts.

A payment processing platform for small businesses. The startup, which was founded in April, has already earned $200,000 in revenue, with plans to expand internationally in the next 12 months.

A Slack bot to help you find the best money transfer providers.

Algorithms help make the auto insurance system cheaper, faster and more effective.

An HR marketplace for freelancers, allowing them to be paid on a commission basis for booking new clients.

A startup that’s working on a way to bring the world’s first fully integrated digital platform for e-commerce.

A tool that helps small businesses, specifically those in the restaurant industry, manage and pay all of their in-house expenses, from utilities to payroll. In the US, their core customers are restaurants.

A company that makes reusable plastic shopping bags that are 100% compostable.

A startup that helps companies track the open rates of their emails and see which ones are getting the most engagement.

A startup that helps college students decide which courses to take and which ones to skip. They’re currently building a prototype app with over 5,000 students and 300 universities.

Customize your videos and podcasts with a beautiful, easy-to-use video editor. It’s a video editing app built for the modern mobile user.

A tool that helps teams work together in real time, across the world.

A software company building software to “bring the power of machine learning to the cannabis industry”, with an app that makes it easier for consumers to track where their cannabis is coming from.

A company that helps people use their smartphones to report incidents to local police.

A tool for managing and analyzing the data from multiple sources, including all the CRM systems, marketing automation tools, and other data sources. It’s a platform for managing the data, not individual tools.

A product management platform built for companies to be able to manage product proposals in a collaborative, efficient way.

A startup that wants to help companies build special-purpose blockchains for their use cases, eliminating the need to create an entirely new blockchain. The startup is currently focusing on the health industry, with an emphasis on micropayments.

A wearable that helps people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels.

A tool for building and connecting ad hoc APIs to help companies develop and deploy on-demand APIs on platforms like Slack.

A company that helps healthcare companies manage their supply chain by connecting suppliers with hospitals.

A company building an application for iPhone and Android that helps users prevent identity theft, by sending alerts and notifications to users when their personal information is used to make a purchase, and even to notify users when their information is being used without their consent.

A tool for creating quick videos, working as a companion to other video creation tools. It’s been used by over 1,000 brands, including Dunkin’ Donuts, Taylor Swift, and Anthony Bourdain.

A tool to help people find out which of their friends are on the same flight as them.

A parking app that uses remote parking sensors to find available parking for drivers.

A startup to allow people to send money from their smartphones to a family member, no matter where they are in the world.

A freelance marketplace that connects with all the best freelance marketplaces and applies its own fraud protection.

A tool to track and visualize a person’s social media activity. It’s a hit with marketers who want to see the impact of their social media campaigns.

A platform for “micro-farmers” to sell crops in bulk, either in person or online.

A credit card that automatically pays a percentage of your purchases each month.

A digital assistant that helps people plan their day, from remembering to get dressed to scheduling meetings.

A startup that wants to make it easy for organizations to find out what their data is worth to various other companies, and can help companies sell their data.

A platform that helps people build cash gifting sites where they can gift e-gift cards to their friends and family.

A niche search engine that uses Google’s own data to discover the answer to your question

A platform for students to request tutoring, with the company taking a 20% cut from tutors’ earnings.

Personalized medicine is a massive area of interest in the healthcare industry. With the help of AI, the startup is trying to create a way for pharmacies to recommend the most effective medications to patients.

This is a B2B company that helps companies manage their legal agreements, especially in the area of intellectual property.

A company that tracks older people's daily activities by tracking and analyzing their wearables.

A startup that connects business owners with moms who want to use their space for parties. The startup, which launched in June, is working with over 20 local businesses to help owners find moms to host dinner, bake sales, lunch meetings, and much more.

A startup that helps software developers find and recruit talent. The company offers a platform to help companies and developers find each other, and helps match them with candidates.

This company is working on a way to send money to countries that have been hit by natural disasters. It works in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is currently in use in the Philippines.

A company that wants to make wearable tech more accessible to customers who can’t afford or don’t want to purchase it

A payment startup that offers a money transfer service for small and medium-sized businesses. The company has a network of partners that cover 90% of all businesses.

A platform that helps people manage their personal finances and balance their budgets, like Mint.

A startup that uses real-time video analytics to help law enforcement track criminal activity.

A company that offers a platform that allows people to trade their old smartphone for a new one. The idea is that people can trade their used phones for credits that can be used to purchase a new one.

A startup that’s building a self-checkout system for grocery stores. The company says that they’re already working with over 20 grocery chains.

A platform that helps pay for and schedule a ride with a driver in minutes. The startup has raised $200,000 and has 2 employees.

A management platform for small businesses that wants to help companies grow. The startup says it’s already working with over 300 businesses, and is helping them improve their customer acquisition, sales and retention.

A tool that helps shoppers find the best price for a product online, out of whatever retailers are offering at the moment. The startup is based in the U.K.

They are building a website for buying and selling used cars in the US that allows users to create and manage a car listing. They also have an app for users to find cars for sale (which they claim would be the first app of its kind to gain Apple approval.)

A company that helps doctors use technology to keep track of patients who are already in the hospital and notifying them in case of emergencies

A company that wants to take the stress and headaches out of managing multiple email accounts, and provides tools for managing your personal inbox and corporate inbox.

A bank card that pays you for every ride you take on Uber and Lyft.

The startup promises to save you time and money by helping you find the best locks — and has already raised $8.1M.

A startup to help people better manage their money. The startup is trying to make budgeting and saving easier by helping users visualize their spending habits.

A startup launching in the US and Canada that aims to disrupt the recruitment industry through machine learning and data science.

An API for global real estate prices

Pushing the boundaries of productivity, this startup wants to help software developers develop better apps.

A mobile phone app that helps you set up a gifting experience with friends on Facebook. It’s not clear if this is a new feature or a monetization play.

A startup that lets people send money to each other instantly, without fees

A startup that automatically syncs your phone and Facebook contacts.

A health management software platform that helps health plans manage their members’ data. The company has raised $8.1 million in funding.

Decent is an AI startup with a focus on helping companies discover and evaluate talent. The company is currently working with 500 companies, including Amazon, The New York Times, and Netflix.

This app helps users choose the best way to get places.

A platform for measuring the impact of ads on your website

A startup that creates a mobile app that can track inventory at retail stores.

A company that makes a facial recognition app that can automatically detect and categorize facial expressions.

A digital assistant for the wine industry, helping professionals like sommeliers and winemakers learn from the data they have without having to manually track it.

An AI-assisted chatbot in which the user can ask it questions about their data.

A platform for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to manage patient records. MediCloud provides a secure way for medical staff to access and manage patient records. Clients include Kaiser Permanente, Partners HealthCare, and the University of Washington.

A company focused on building a “universal” drone that can be built for any kind of use, from anything from agriculture to photography to filmmaking.

A new startup that aims to modernize the payments industry for businesses, making it faster, cheaper, and more secure.

A startup that’s built an open-source, artificial intelligence-powered bot that helps you schedule meetings on Slack. The bot is called Lino and was built by a team of ex-Google and ex-Yahoo engineers.

A peer-to-peer lending platform where people can loan money to one another. The startup is currently working on a separate peer-to-peer loan product.

A company that’s building an app for helping people plan when to hit the road and when to stay home.

The startup is looking to build an app that enables customers to buy pre-made meals (think take-out) within a few minutes.

A productivity app that helps you organize your time.

A way to track the hours employees work, allowing companies to better manage their time.

A company that offers a platform for credit unions to build mobile apps. The startup says it’s already working with over 50 credit unions to build mobile apps.

The startup wants to help companies meet the needs of their customers with a new tech platform that lets users talk directly to their bank services, like the automated teller machines of the future.

A platform that allows people to buy and sell goods and services online in exchange for cryptocurrency.

A platform for hiring professionals in China. The startup provides a platform where companies find and hire digital marketers, digital product managers, and other digital talents.

A way to make “live meetings” more effective. The company hopes to help teams create meetings that feel more conversational.

Filmmakers want to keep track of their own costs while they’re making a movie. They wanted a way to track what they’re spending on equipment and how long things take. They also wanted to be able to follow their work in real time. They’re both very common problems, and the startup helps solve them.

A startup that combines real estate investment with hotel management, with the goal of investing in hotels that aren’t doing well.

A platform that helps connect female entrepreneurs with investors. Its founders are hoping to reach 1 million female founders in the next 10 years.

A tool for managing your finances in a single place. The startup wants to help people take care of their money, and also wants to help people manage their money, as many people are not doing so.

Idea: A startup that helps people who are new to a city find places to live. The startup is targeting international students, new workers and the like, and aims to partner with landlords to make a profit.

Idea: A small business that is building a platform for the service industry, helping companies like cleaning services coordinate their operations.

This is a startup making it easier for digital publishers to build interactive content.

A payments company that connects merchants with payment processing services.

A chatbot that helps people connect with local small businesses that sell items on eBay.

A suite of tools to help schedule and track meetings and events

A platform for employers to create a job marketplace to connect them with the best talent in a given region.

A digital assistant for the elderly, designed to better help older adults live life and become more independent. The startup wants to integrate a concierge service with a robotic companion.

This startup wants to help companies with managing their financial operations, like payroll, bookkeeping, and accounting.

A personal trainer that can be accessed from the app. It’s being funded by a $12M series A.

A platform that helps you make never-ending, premium video content for your YouTube channel. It allows creators to generate content and not worry about the ad revenue.

A real estate startup in the UK that uses AI to find the perfect time to buy or sell a home for the best price.

A digital micro lender that aims to help small businesses and startups purchase inventory and other supplies, and set up loans for that inventory, using a combination of bank and non-bank lending.

A platform that helps businesses manage their financials and accounts, organizing information in a way that makes it easy to understand and use.

A startup to find doctors who are willing to work at night or on holidays.

A startup that helps users save money on daily expenses.

A startup that aims to help people understand the underlying code of their favorite apps, and how to improve them.

A chatbot to help people learn on the fly about deep learning, AI, and AI-driven technology.

An online platform for renting out unused rooms in houses and apartments, and letting guests stay in them for a night.

A company that makes it easier to find, book, and pay for limo rides via the web.

A startup to help you check and manage your Starwood and Marriott hotel stays and loyalty programs.

This company is building a real-time analytics platform for customer support teams. It uses machine learning to help teams prioritize customer issues and spot trends in order to improve response time and user happiness.

A software platform designed to enable data scientists and AI experts to run real-time experiments.

A crowdsourced product review platform for groceries and other products.

A tool for helping people with mental illnesses and disabilities manage their medications and stay on track, particularly those with bipolar disorder.

Nototo is building a visual map interface for note-taking, bringing a very unique interface to a productivity vertical

A startup that wants to create new types of smart products that make life easier for people who don’t have smartphones.

A tool that helps schools schedule their special events. The idea is simple: it’s a calendar for schools, which students can access to find out about upcoming events.

A fraud detection platform for the Indian insurance industry.

A chatbot for hiring remote employees.

BridgeCoin is a cryptocurrency-based lending platform that is “an alternative to the traditional banking system.”

A company that wants to create a better, more secure vendor rating system for restaurants.

A company that wants to selectively make a person’s inbox more efficient by automatically removing messages that are less important, without having to manually flag them.

A B2B company that helps large companies and brands make better purchasing decisions by aggregating and synthesizing data.

A startup for nonprofits to support their membership, fundraising, and communications via an API.

This company is building a digital store that lets people buy, sell, and trade everything from cars to real estate — all from the comfort of their home.

A platform for managing the logistics of online marketplaces and e-commerce sites.

A startup that helps you determine how much energy you’re using in an hour or a day. The app is free, and in the US will soon be free for all users.

A startup that claims to be able to help businesses with their mobile IT needs.

Building another approach to the collaborative editing app. The company is trying to get away from the “slowly evolving” nature of the current products.

A startup that is building a business-to-business model for selling to hospitals and clinics using mobile technology.

A tool that helps companies in France, Germany, and Belgium connect to Chinese suppliers.

A startup that makes a “Beep” that helps you guess what the answer to a math problem is by giving you a BEEP in the ear.

A startup that wants to create an online marketplace for fitness that will allow users to buy and sell workouts, including in-person ones.

A platform for businesses (mostly restaurants) to offer delivery services without having to depend on third parties.

A company that aims to provide a way for people to manage their investments.

A real estate financing platform that connects investors with borrowers and saves them time and money.

A company that wants to help companies create products that can be used by people with disabilities.

A startup for people to manage their sleep, including a sleep journal, lighting controls, and noise alerts.

This app is meant to help you meet people and find dates, but it’s also a platform for B2B companies to do things like research consumers by querying their social media profiles.

A new kind of personal finance site that connects people with a shared financial goal, like paying off debt or saving for a vacation.

A video game that lets players control a character with special abilities (think superhero powers) to dodge obstacles, solve puzzles, and defeat enemies. Players can share their progress with other players online.

Centrify Corporate Services is a cloud-based managed services provider that helps enterprises bring their on-premises Microsoft-based services into the cloud.

A startup that goes after the 5 million small businesses that have yet to accept payments online. Their vision is to be able to “complete, manage, and reimburse small business invoices”.

A company that wants to create a “new and improved” credit score that takes into account a person’s income and employment history.

A tool that helps companies find the lowest-cost and most reliable electricians in their area.

A tool that helps companies source and communicate with local contractors.

A startup that helps freelancers manage their time by creating a dashboard showing how much time they have to complete a project. It helps freelancers manage their time and act on time management tips they get from their favorite books.

The startup is building a tool that helps hospital administrators and physicians make informed decisions about patient care.

A SaaS that helps companies manage their workflows and track time, expenses, and expenses by project or area.

A product development and design company for small-to-medium-sized businesses, with a focus on beauty brands

A tool for doing data science on a continuous basis, allowing companies to pull real-time data rather than waiting for an annual report or project to happen.

A startup that is working to use the blockchain for farming. They say their software can help farmers manage their inventory, track the quality of their crops and manage the relationship between farmers and distributors.

A platform to allow users to tip humans on the internet, and not just digital goods.

A company that helps customers build and install solar panels on their homes.

An open source software platform that helps companies manage their customer risk data through a unified and central platform

A startup that helps people take a picture of a ticket and automatically uploads it to their app, so they don’t have to worry about printing it out.

A to-do list app for teams, available on iOS and Android. The app uses a collaboration model, where people can sync their lists across devices, and can edit others’ lists.

A startup that wants to help users build and grow a personal brand. The idea is to let users manage their own personal image, build their social capital, and participate in the global economy.

The idea is to build an app to sell tickets to former members of the military who are looking to reconnect with their old unit.

An ATM that lets people log in with a fingerprint to get their card.

A startup that helps you plan your trip to the beach, from finding the cheapest flight, to finding the best hotel.

A startup that wants to create an on-demand service where users can turn their less-than-perfect photo into a work of art.

"We all have a lot of data. And we’re going to continue to have a lot of data."

A company that helps people find and sell their old HDTVs, turning them into augmented reality products.

A startup that helps you find free and cheap parking in NYC, Baltimore and Los Angeles. It’s already live in NYC, and will expand to LA and Baltimore in the coming months.

A kitchen system called the “KitchenPod” that’s meant to let you cook, then take the result home for later. The kitchen has a base unit, and a separate pod that connects to a smartphone. The fridge is connected to the base unit via Bluetooth, so it can track things like what you’re eating and how much of it you’re eating. When the pod is connected to the base unit, it can track the fridge’s temperature, as well as how much food it’s holding.

A cloud-based system that lets players build and play with virtual objects.

A company that sells 3D printed case covers for smart phones.

This is a startup that’s helping companies organize and protect their intellectual property, pitching it as “GitHub for intellectual property”.

A solution for people who want to sell their belongings but can't because of landlord restrictions.

A tool for lessors and landlords that provides a dashboard of rent history and financial reports.

A tool that provides an interface to connect to third-party data sources, like credit cards, loyalty programs, and other apps, to produce a complete customer profile.

The startup introduces a new way to think about the internet and data centers. It rethinks the internet as a global power grid, where countries have their own little data centers that sit atop each other.

A company that combines a wearables platform, a wearable device, and a smartphone app to improve the health of its users.

The company is a funding-and-dissemination platform for science projects. It’s funded by Y Combinator, and has raised $2.6M in seed funding.

A startup that allows people to manage their own data while still using the cloud. It aims to help individuals manage their own data, while still using the cloud to store it.

A digital platform that allows you to share your interests with the rest of the world, so you can put your skills to use and earn money.

A digital financial advisor that serves as a personal financial advisor, personal banker, and a private banker. The startup wants to leverage the internet to help people make good personal financial decisions and manage their savings, investment portfolios, and retirement.

A smart lock that unlocks with your voice, hands, and face.

A startup that helps employers manage their payroll, benefits, and insurance electronically, with a set of tools that include a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, an API, virtual and in-person support.

A platform for young adults to take a break from college and earn money.

Visual Search is a tool that lets you create and share visual search results, like a game of connect the dots. The app lets users create their own visual search queries by dragging and dropping different images. It’s currently in private beta testing in the UK.

A tool for making it easier to book conferences and events online, with a focus on the B2B space.

A project backed by the President of Brazil to develop the country’s cabs.

A social networking platform for people who are moving overseas, allowing them to connect with others and learn about new cultures and customs.

A platform for communicating with your doctor and getting answers to your health questions.

A startup that wants to bring a “hybrid” approach to the online dating market, focusing on creating a community for people to find dates on the platform, but also connecting them with people they know in real life.

A startup that lets you send and receive payments with your bank account, but also with your phone.

A software-as-a-service platform for startups that helps them collaborate more efficiently by bringing their office into one place.

An email marketing platform. Businesses with high volumes of email marketing can choose to send their emails using a software sdk and pay a flat monthly fee.

A new way to make mobile payments with no fees and no limits. It’s only available in the US and is in the process of getting a $5 million seed round.

A startup that’s building a service that will help companies keep track of when they need to calculate payroll taxes for their employees and what’s changed since that time.

A fintech startup that provides a service for investors to buy bonds in emerging markets.

A tool for managing employee stock options.

One of the most basic tasks for startups is a website. This startup wants to be the “Yelp for websites” and allows for users to rate their sites and let other people know where the site is located, what it does, and whether it’s worth your time.

An online portal for tracking and managing the life cycle of your products

A startup with the aim of lowering the cost of delivering medical care to remote regions. The company wants to build a tele-health network where doctors can treat patients remotely.

A restaurant-like space in a building that lets local entrepreneurs run a curated collection of food businesses — a quick-service restaurant, a coffee shop, an ice cream parlor, a bakery, etc. — in a single location. The space also offers shared office space and has a private chef who can cook for customers.

A digital insurance company for the Indian SME market, with a focus on the auto insurance sector.

A “turn-key” email marketing automation software that helps businesses meet their marketing goals using email. It’s currently in the pilot phase.

A startup that’s creating a simplified blockchain-based platform for local governments to build a digital identity.

A company that offers free, unlimited public Wi-Fi

A SaaS company that connects crowdfunding and equity investors.

A remote-work solution for business partners and freelancers, letting them work from anywhere. It’s a sort of “Uber for freelancers”, and is based on the idea that most clients don’t want to hire someone for a long-term gig, but instead need someone to tackle a project for a few days or a week at a time.

A way to make on-demand legal services more efficient and more affordable.

An online platform that allows people to rent out their homes while they travel. The company’s founders say that the business is growing rapidly.

A way to automatically sell your old stuff on eBay, using big data to determine what you’re likely to buy again.

A new company called Aranner is building a technology platform that helps digital marketers provide better customer-experience-based marketing solutions to clients.

An online clothing warehouse delivering to local boutiques and independent stores in the U.S. A recent move into the UK has brought in $100,000 in sales in their first month, while they say they’ve already received interest from other retailers.

A global marketplace for local goods that requires zero inventory or storage costs. The startup says it can deliver goods from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world within 48 hours.

A dashboard to help companies manage access to their employees’ information. It’s a way to manage access from any device.

A startup that wants to help companies make more efficient use of the cloud by using machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor usage and predict when to cut costs.

Plair is a platform that allows users to earn rewards and pay for goods and services through an app or through a credit card. Users can earn points called Plair Points, which can be redeemed for goods and services.

A social app that lets you set up groups of friends and family to help you out with tasks at times you’re not able to do them yourself.

A tool that helps you adapt to new technologies quickly and easily.

A social destination for food and drink recommendations.

A product that helps reduce waste by providing insight on which foodstuffs to buy in bulk, when to buy them, and how to sell them.

A platform for scheduling and tracking overhead costs for nonprofits.

A company that hires a team of journalists, photographers, videographers and social media managers to create content for companies to share on social media.

A cashierless convenience store that uses an app to let customers scan items and pay for them

A startup that helps small and medium-sized businesses in the US sell their products on Amazon.

A way for people to pay friends and family without a credit card.

This is a platform that allows users to make payments directly from their bank accounts. The startup brings a service that banks themselves don’t currently offer.

A company that consolidates all of the different personal injury claims you’ve filed against your employer into one easy-to-manage system.

An iPad app that helps you find a matching style for your home and then shows a 3D model of your home in 360 degrees.

A company that plans to create a next-generation chip that will allow the transition of the Internet of Things over to the blockchain

Verbalize is an AI/natural language processing tool that can convert text into audio files, and then convert audio files into text.

A product that helps businesses manage their risk. The startup’s software helps companies set up a risk model for their business and get a risk score so they can decide if they should hedge, mitigate, or accept the risk.

A platform that helps business owners directly monetize their digital content. They’re using a crowdsourced model of community management to build the best content curation platform.

A startup that provides consulting to businesses that want to enter the Chinese market

A platform for all digital currencies. Their goal is to provide a universal wallet that allows users to exchange between digital and fiat currency directly.

This startup is creating a chatbot that will help users find the best deal on airline tickets, and provide recommendations based on personal preferences.

A simple way for companies to get timely news about their key metrics, possibly available through push notifications.

A tool for using multiple types of currencies.

A startup for freelancers to offer their services, with everything from programming to writing.

The startup’s first product is a set of AI-powered smart lockers in Manhattan that can be unlocked by your phone and only unlock when you’re in the vicinity of one. The lockers are meant to help you travel more freely, as well as help improve traffic flow and security at the same time.

A digital dashboard for the transportation industry, with a dashboard for each car that measures things like fuel efficiency, emissions and maintenance costs.

Derringer is a company that reduces the risk of email scams by providing a service that verifies authenticity of emails, using domain reputation.

A Slack-like organization tool for freelancers, with plans to add project management tools and add an API for third-party developers.

A startup that wants to build an ecosystem around customer data so that customer data becomes an asset.

A new version of the Blockfolio app that offers a single dashboard for all your cryptocurrency holdings, as opposed to the current fragmented ecosystem of apps.

A way to for people to track their water consumption and saving goals in real-time.

A tool to help startups quickly and easily build a website, then instantly launch it.

A tool for managing your portfolio of stocks, bonds and other assets.

A tool that helps companies increase productivity by analyzing and optimizing their user's behavior.

A startup for families to coordinate care for seniors. The founders hope the platform will help caregivers manage care, so they can do things like remind care-givers when the person’s medication needs to be refilled.

A tool for email marketing and customer support.

A “one-time” payment service for reviews, where customers only have to pay once and then don’t have to pay again unless they choose to.

A way to manage your child’s homework, with a feature for tracking progress, formative feedback, and a way to customize lessons for individual kids.

A tool for teachers using interactive whiteboards to teach and collaborate with each other.

The app is an automated interactive calendar that helps people stay organized.

A tool that helps companies learn about the customers they have, and which ones they can target to better serve the company’s goals.

A speech recognition app that helps users get around in their home.

A tool for freelancers that allows them to create invoices with no upfront cost or monthly subscription. The startup is looking to be a cheaper alternative to Upwork and Freelancer.

A platform for the “ultimate workout” in a virtual 3D environment. Its goal is to connect people to top fitness trainers who can offer the latest training techniques and advice.

A startup that provides a “free and sustainable” alternative to plastic bags

A startup that's building a wireless charging system that is more efficient than current options.

The startup is working with industry partners to establish a next-generation digital payments platform.

An AI-enabled accounting platform for the travel and hospitality industries. This startup is taking a hybrid approach, using AI to make the process more efficient, and also manually coding the interface so it’s more intuitive.

A tool that lets companies see how many employees are making calls for them online, with an eye toward measuring up on the competition and seeing which employees are spending too much time on the phone.

A web-based teacher evaluation tool that helps schools choose teachers based on student performance.

A platform for helping the world’s unbanked and underbanked via mobile banking.

A startup that wants to bring the Airbnb business model to the stay-at-home domestic help market

A startup to help you manage your data and stay up to date on what’s legally allowed access to your data

The company’s wallet app includes a rewards program that allows users to earn points that translate into gift cards and other discounts.

A management platform for connecting sales reps with clients, currently only available in the UK. The company’s co-founder was previously the CEO of the UK’s largest recruitment search engine.

A startup that allows users to easily track data on their credit cards, including spending habits and the like, and then sell that information to retailers.

A modern database for workbooks, with a cloud-based tool for creating, editing and sharing workbooks.

The startup is building an app that connects car owners with mechanics who can fix broken cars.

A platform for freelance work, where users can bid on jobs, and get paid by a single company in exchange for a small fee.

A startup for communities to send each other money using an app

A startup that wants to build software that helps companies create products that are more collaborative, helping people work together more easily.

This is a tool for freelancers to manage projects.

SaaS for small businesses to better track and understand all their expenses, like shipping, insurance, and taxes.

A startup that helps companies manage call center operations by providing a suite of automated tools for scheduling, routing, and compliance.

A startup looking to build a payment system for restaurants and bars that can handle anything from one bartender to 10,000.

A startup meant to help clients get the most out of their digital marketing budgets.

A platform for mobile app developers that provides them with tools and resources to help them build apps.

An online marketplace for helping artists connect with buyers through their work. The startup claims they have over 1,000 artists registered on their platform, and have been in business for over a year.

A health insurance company for under-insured individuals. The startup is building an income-based health insurance plan to cover people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty line.

A platform that helps couples plan the next 10 years of their lives together.

A Y Combinator company that wants to use AI to help deaf people communicate. It has built an app that relies on a smartphone’s built-in camera to help users correctly place and identify objects and facial features.

A platform for businesses to create their own private marketplaces, that can be a hub for suppliers and buyers.

A company that helps employees share information about their projects. It’s also an app that powers human resources at major companies.

A startup that’s building a platform for connecting medical devices and home medical services to help people avoid hospitalizations for respiratory illnesses.

A cloud-based insurance platform for credit unions and other institutions to manage risk and collect premiums from their customers.

A premium, on-demand cleaning service in NYC

A visual way of sending money to family and friends, with built-in chat capabilities so you can directly message your recipients about the funds.

This is a financial platform for the “urban poor” that helps track their income, expenses, and savings. It connects people to financial services and also helps them understand how to make savings and investments.

A web-based teacher evaluation tool that helps schools choose teachers based on student performance.

A startup that helps people book medical appointments using their driver’s license information, which is usually tied to a credit card.

A company that helps hot dog vendors in New York City sell their hot dogs by linking them to their Instagram accounts. It’s meant to make the process of selling hot dogs more efficient and profitable.

Another startup looking to challenge the status quo of the food delivery space. Olo wants to deliver a food service experience with a focus on healthy eating and delivery. It’s currently focused on New York City.

A startup that makes it easy to visualize and track what’s happening with social media engagement, as well as what’s happening within the organization.

idea: A retail platform that helps brands and small retailers manage inventory and product pages across multiple sites. The startup helps brands manage product listings and marketing on a single user interface by combining real-time analytics and inventory management.

A company that helps other companies create and use “smart contracts”, essentially creating decentralized software that runs on the blockchain and helps solve business problems.

A tool for helping companies to ensure that the people they do business with are following the law.

A startup for community members to report potholes and graffiti in their neighborhood Workers go out daily to clean up potholes, remove graffiti

A platform for paying people who do things like plow your driveway and mow your lawn.

A startup that’s helping companies like Walmart, Staples, Target and other retailers create their own mobile checkout processes on their own sites. The startup charges $30,000 per month for its service.

This startup is building a decentralized protocol for businesses to securely access and use secure network services.

A startup that makes online shopping easier for people with less tech experience

An AI startup that uses machine learning to create a virtual but not overwhelming sales assistant and help people get their questions answered.

A company that provides a software platform for optimizing the customer journey for mobile commerce.

An API for companies to find the best talent for their teams.

The startup is launching an app to allow people to build their own personal websites, with various themes and templates.

A platform for simple, instant mobile phone payments for businesses. The company is hoping to serve as a payment gateway for developers hoping to make their apps easier to use.

The company is building a platform that will allow users to take a picture of the items in their home and have it translated into a virtual reality experience.

A startup that helps people make appointments with dentists while they’re at the dentist’s office

A business intelligence platform for retailers, that allows them to better understand their customers, so they can make better decisions about what to sell and where to sell it.

This is a site that shares recipes for healthy, delicious, and inexpensive meals.

• A startup that wants to sell a concierge service that helps people with their health and fitness, like a personal trainer

A mobile app that helps people find top-rated doctors or clinics that treat a specific illness or illness category (type 2 diabetes, back pain, etc.)

A company that helps users manage their money using a mobile app. The app does this by sending alerts to users whenever certain things with their accounts change, such as when a payment is made.

A cloud-based music course marketplace that takes a subscription model. The startup is also building a platform to help artists control their rights, manage their catalog, and sell their music.

A tool that helps companies in the Southeast Asia and China take their money and invest it in the U.S. in a way that is tax-advantaged.

This startup is looking to help people invest in property in ways that are cheaper and more secure than the usual methods.

A startup that provides remote control boats for kids who live in apartments

A way to create a “digital diary” for people to record life events and thoughts.

An SaaS platform for media and content companies to manage their content marketing needs. The startup is beta running now, with a goal of launching in 2019.

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

A startup that provides a service for cleaning out garages, basements or attics for people

A shopping app that allows you to search for local stores that sell what you’re looking for and send them a request. When you receive a notification, you’re able to go directly to the store.

A peer-to-peer digital money transfer platform that lets people send money to each other in need

A startup that provides a service to help people with Alzheimer’s, dementia or other memory loss problems

Made for use by beauty brands, ByNu is a $10 per month subscription service that breaks down your email marketing and social media data into a visual dashboard that shows you which of your social media posts perform the best.

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

This startup is changing the way real estate agents do business, making it easier to book appointments and manage their own inventory.

A health insurance platform that focuses on preventive care and wellness.

A company that helps enterprises manage their supply chains during times of “short-term disruptions”.

A library of over 1,700 video lectures for developers on the entire set of AWS services.

This startup is building a portable bio-sensor that can measure drugs in the body through non-invasive blood tests. The sensors are worn like a necklace and are powered by a single AAA battery.

A platform which allows employers to give employees of their choosing access to their company’s HR information without them having to sign up for a new account. It works with the companies’ existing HR systems, allowing employees to access information about job openings and benefits without having to sign into a new system.

A tool that helps sales teams organize their email campaigns for maximum efficiency.

A tool to help people organize and manage their media and the digital products they produce, with a focus on helping filmmakers produce and sell their work.

A startup that provides a service to help people clean up their digital presence before they die so that family members have access to all the right information

A startup aimed at making it easy for regular people to take a vacation. The startup aims to make travel less expensive, more accessible and more enjoyable.

A tool for managing student debt, allowing users to “raise the rates they pay on student loan or credit card debt by a percent or more”.

A startup that allows customers to order food and snacks to be delivered to their hotel room in advance of a trip.

A tool for managing your professional identity on LinkedIn

A free stock-watching app that tracks the performance of Apple, Google, and Amazon.

A network verification tool to help businesses identify fake users on their site.

A startup that helps businesses get their trucks into the right place at the right time.

This is a company that uses AI to create apps and software that help create and manage online polls and surveys.

A perk-based loyalty and rewards platform for merchants and brands

A company that’s building a “premium” test for restless legs syndrome

A marketing platform aimed at online influencers, like bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters, that provides analytics, automated email marketing, and more.

A platform to measure employee satisfaction with a company.

A new way to run training and development programs, with the promise of engaging employees and offering the most up-to-date content to customers.

A digital ticker for stock quotes.

A digital product management platform that helps teams plan, build and launch software faster.

This startup is developing a new way to interpret and present the digital genome data that is being produced. Their work is based on the premise that a person’s DNA doesn’t change, but that the environment in which they live and the medications they take can change it.

A startup that is building a website that allows users to look at the world like an architect.

A B2B platform for helping travel agents sell travel packages to customers.

A startup that helps travelers rent cars for a day or a week at a time. The startup wants to rent vehicles from manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes Benz.

A platform for sharing and rating products across the web, where consumers can go to see what the top products in a category are and rate them.

A company that’s building a mobile app to allow travelers to search for hotels and airbnb listings in cities they’re visiting.

A company that helps to manage the accounting records of a business and allows them to easily pay their bills.

A platform that connects buyers with sellers, allowing users to sell used items like books and DVDs, or purchase new ones in bulk.

A digital tattoo that is meant to be a proxy for software development. The tattoo can be worn by developers and shows things like code, project statuses, and more.

A company that’s building an app that would let you buy and sell domain names and website content in a way that’s more transparent and better for the seller than current methods.

A B2B startup that wants to make a “common operating system” for workflows. It wants to make tasks like HR administration and invoicing simple and easy.

Fix My Ride is a mobile app that lets users request a ride and pay for it through a mobile payment system, like Apple Pay or Google Pay.

This startup is building a tool to help people create and share custom business cards. It’s a DIY model that lets you add in your own graphics, photos, or even animations.

This is a startup that allows companies to set up and manage their own online campaigns. Instead of creating an ad and selling it to an agency, you can create a campaign and sell it to a customer.

A startup that lets you buy furniture from Ikea without seeing Ikea

An AI-powered messaging-based dating app that brings a human element back to online dating.

A management platform for connecting sales reps with clients, currently only available in the UK. The company’s co-founder was previously the CEO of the UK’s largest recruitment search engine.

A startup that aims to help college students get answers to their questions about their health. There are an estimated 1.5 million students with health questions and a very limited number of resources to direct them to.

A cloud-based accounting system that doesn’t just track payments but also helps companies track sales and inventory

This startup is developing a platform for smart contracts that automatically execute when specified conditions are met.

A digital assistant for people with disabilities, allowing them to speak to a device that will respond to them.

A startup that allows people to buy groceries online, and have them delivered at a later date The user can also schedule the delivery for a specific date and time

A company that sells a kit that allows you to mix your own juices, juices, and other drinks at home.

A startup that’s building a “kinda-sorta-smart” system to make medical devices. The startup wants to bring more of the “magic” of machine learning to medical equipment, bringing some of the capabilities of Alexa to the masses.

A startup builder that lets you create beautiful, interactive, mobile-friendly websites for your business, with no coding required

A platform that helps people get the most out of their social networks, by creating profiles with all the details they need, along with a quick and easy way to leverage their networks to get in touch with friends.

A B2B company that provides customers with a toner printer that prints directly onto their paper

A cross-platform P2P renting business that connects people with unused assets to rent them out for cash.

A startup that wants to build a system that uses machine learning to help businesses with advertising.

A platform that helps employers find and hire people with disabilities

This is a satellite company, which wants to provide connectivity between islands through satellite tech. It’s targeting the Pacific, but it’s also in talks with other remote parts of the globe.

This is a company that makes a way to map the physical world of information. The startup is building a suite of open data products and services that will allow users to visualize and understand the world around them.

A simple way to get food from your car to your fridge.

A community marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods. It is very similar in kind to the popular site OfferUp, but with a community-focused twist

A consumer app that helps with the “lifecycle of a purchase”, helping users order products then return them, saving the merchant money and decreasing waste.

This company is building a way to use the cloud to power next-gen B2B products that can adapt to changing customer needs. Three enterprise customers.

A tool that helps companies save money by reducing the number of times they have to order supplies. The startup’s service is called ProSupply and it helps companies order more efficiently by identifying the supplies that they need and automating the ordering process.

Tracking devices that can automatically send an alert to a parent when a child is loitering near a pool.

Idea: A B2B company that sells an API for acquiring and managing merchant accounts, and another API for accepting credit cards. The company says it’s processed $2 million in transactions.

This is a tool for managing your social media presence. It’s a bit like social media management firm Social.com, but for social media.

A way to connect to the internet through a satellite, without a phone. The startup is building a satellite router for use in rural areas.

An AI startup that uses machine learning to create a virtual but not overwhelming sales assistant and help people get their questions answered.

A platform that lets anyone easily create, sell, and buy stuff from Amazon, with no fees and no inventory.

A product meant to help developers replace their steam-based game server infrastructure with a more modular solution.

An AI that helps people find a good Uber or Lyft driver.

A startup that’s meant to help people with ADHD focus better on tasks and avoid distractions.

A company that makes virtual reality experiences for medical training and education, and has already trained over 50,000 people on its platform.

A way to protect online organizing tools from hackers, phishing and malware. The startup’s software protects sites from remote access and data theft.

A software development company that wants to fix the “diversity gap” in Silicon Valley. The company’s co-founder says that men make up around 80% of the tech workforce, and women only 4% (and that the industry is even worse in other parts of the world).

A platform for doctors and medical professionals to collaborate on their own practice management and patient records.

A startup that provides a service that helps people in their 20s and 30s with their career transitions

Focused on helping business owners and executives improve business outcomes, the startup’s first offering, CROW, is a software tool that helps companies analyze the performance of their marketing initiatives.

A new service that helps companies keep track of the travel costs of their employees. The company collects data from travel rewards programs, and allows employees to manage their travel spending.

A visual tool for turning product prototypes into wireframes for developers.

A venture-backed startup that helps new companies get their name out into digital. It allows founders to create customized branded websites and blogs, and gives them tools to help them effectively communicate with their community.

A chatbot that helps people decide which insurance plan to select.

The company is building an app that will allow users to search for, and then pay for, movie tickets at local movie theaters.

A software company that helps companies with legal needs to manage everything from legal agreements to legal research.

An investment platform for early stage startups, which helps them raise capital from angels, VCs and other investors.

A mobile app where people can donate money to artists or bands that they like. The startup is working with artists like N.E.R.D., KATY PERRY, and SEX AND THE CITY.

A “dynamic ad platform” built for the Internet of Things

This startup is creating “predictive messaging” tools that allow people to get notifications, like when they have a doctor’s appointment, before they actually do.

A company that creates apps, such as one that helps you reorder your Amazon orders through its website.

A travel booking app that uses AI to show you the best deals on flights and hotels, in real time.

Social media for farmers, connecting them with others who want to buy their produce.

A tool for curating an email inbox, the Startup is pitching as “email 2.0”.

A way to allow a location-sharing app to build maps or other geospatial data into its service.

A tool for selling tickets to events, where both the buyer and seller can reap the benefits of ticketing technology.

A startup that wants to simplify the process for hiring and connecting talent to the right employers and employees. The startup wants to re-create LinkedIn and Linkedin is a popular networking site for professionals.

A B2B company that helps data scientists “analyse complex data and help data scientists solve difficult problems”.

A startup that wants to make it easy for developers to include new features in their apps without having to roll out a whole new version.

A B2B company for firms that need to hire freelancers. The goal is to help them find good workers and get them on the job ASAP.

This startup is building a better way to find local services. The company is taking a data-driven approach to finding services for residents in a given city and helping them find what they are looking for.

A SaaS company that provides seed financing to early stage startups. The company currently has $51 million in funding.

This startup is building a system that’ll help healthcare providers in the US better manage their billing and patient records.

A startup that helps people plan trips and book travel accommodations. It’s a travel booking app for the booking agent and travel agent industries.

A cloud-based service that helps companies run their HR and benefits systems. The startup is currently in stealth mode, but has been backed by Cyan Banister and Jim McKelvey.

The “Uber for Taxi” ridesharing service has a million drivers in India. UberGo gives them a way to turn their cars into cabs.

A local Chinese startup building a food delivery app. Currently operating in the Beijing market, it wants to go global in 4 years.

A tool for creating and editing charts from Python or MATLAB. Charts is a Python library for creating and editing charts, with an API for creating and editing charts in MATLAB. Charts is available on the Python Package Index and on GitHub.

The startup wants to help you track and control your expenses by allowing you to record expenses in one place and then automatically create reports that show how much you’re spending on certain items.

A way for companies to track their supply chain through an online dashboard.

A platform for landlords to manage their properties. It helps landlords organize their properties and take care of tenants.

This startup helps businesses track their expenses.

A company that USES robots to help people find lost valuable jewelry.

A student loan tracker that helps borrowers make payments and pay off loans. The startup is built to be more effective than a loan payment calculator and more comprehensive than student loan websites.

A platform for businesses to manage their insurance claims, streamlining the claims process and helping companies save money on premiums and time.

Builds a retail website for selling products via Instagram. The startup’s founder says that the website is “the world’s first” to use the social platform to sell physical products online.

The software industry is just one part of the broader tech industry, but it is a big

A startup that hopes to use AI to find gaps in the market, allowing people to make more profitable investments.

A startup for tracking your home energy efficiency for free.

A startup that helps developers build apps that sell items in-app. Right now they focus on augmented reality (AR) apps, but they want to expand to VR and other AR platforms.

A company that helps people move their money between banks, keeping fees down and keeping transactions organized.

A startup that is building an autonomous, high-speed autonomous truck.

A data-driven service that estimates the cost of a trip based on emissions, driving it all the way to booking a flight. Their platform works with airlines and car rental companies to help reduce emissions, as well as help people make smarter travel decisions.

A game-changing way to visualize, model and manage your business processes.

A tool for identifying and preventing fraudulent donations to political campaigns.

A startup building a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects people and cars. The startup is building an app that connects those two, with features like showing the most recent model car available and storing cars in a secure database.

A software company that helps retail clients to manage their supply chains, by tracking and understanding their inventory, creating supply plans and offering predictive analytics to route the right product to the right person at the right time. The startup says it can help a retailer cut costs by 25%.

A startup that makes it possible for anyone to use Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as a customer service call center without having to re-enter their information. The company has already secured funding from Y Combinator, AngelList, and Techstars.

A startup building a new way to manage email and marketing efforts for companies. In May, the company raised $7 million in seed funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator.

A platform that allows users to stream live video on their site, making it easy for customers to see what’s happening in the physical world.

A mobile app that helps people track, report, and take action against street harassment.

A platform that helps large businesses manage their supply chain, with a mobile app that lets users order and track products. It’s backed by Airbus and seen as a competitor to Shopify.

This startup allows people to create green screen videos using their own photos. The technology is used primarily by professional filmmakers, and the company also hopes to tackle the commercial market.

A free service that helps employees track their expenses, automatically categorizing them and making it easier to reconcile them.

A company that sells “custom referral software”, which lets a company buy a set of referrals from their existing customers.

A startup that connects shoeboxes with people who need boxes, and boxes with people who can fill them.

Curio is building an app that allows consumers to learn about the products they use, their health history, and their habits with the goal of helping them make better choices for their health.

A network of robot-powered drones that delivers packages to customers in real time.

A company that offers a platform for legal, tax, accounting, and compliance professionals to collaborate on legal and finance projects, and share the results.

A startup that helps people get the most out of the 1.5 million items they have stored in their kitchen and pantry with a web-based software that allows them to create shopping lists, organize items, and track purchases. They’re also developing a separate mobile app.

SaaS product for keeping track of financial assets.

A startup that helps companies find and hire talent from the right countries, for the right price.

A healthcare database platform that allows doctors to communicate with each other and share patient data.

A toolkit to help large organizations run more efficient ad campaigns, as well as a payday loan marketplace.

A startup that helps people find and hire people for jobs that are not traditional office jobs, like bartending, dog-walking, or light house-keeping.

A music streaming service where you can stream music stored on your phone to anywhere. The startup is also building a subscription service, which it’s launching in the next few weeks.

A startup that aims to reduce car theft by using Bluetooth beacons to locate stolen cars, have their owners remotely lock them.

A startup that uses a combination of AI and machine learning to help companies make sense of the growing amount of data they are trying to collect, and come up with actionable insights. Currently working on a pilot in the UK.

A new type of consulting firm that helps people build teams and find work. The startup is working with over 60 clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Watermark uses a blockchain to create a digital workbook that can be shared with others and edited, allowing them to collaborate. It’s a solution for the “shared task” problem, where work has to be done in common but can’t be shared.

A video-editing tool that lets users assemble clips from their camera roll to create professional-quality videos.

In August 2018, Crunchbase reported that there were over 150 venture-backed startup accelerators in the United States. The list of top accelerators in the United States was as follows:

This is a one-stop shop for help with software installation, configuration, and troubleshooting. The company’s network of software experts can help people with “anything from the basics to the not-so-basics.”

This is an app that helps users track their own GPS data, rather than relying on an app that has to be updated manually

A personalized research assistant that can help you figure out the traits of your best friends and understand human behavior, with data visualizations and quizzes

A startup that wants to “revolutionize” the way healthcare is paid for. It’s another startup that’s just about to launch, with a few clients including Harvard, Yale, and Tulane.

A startup for multi-family buildings that aims to optimize energy usage through a more intelligent management of energy usage. The startup started in 2018 and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fast Company Design.

A content marketing startup that wants to make customers more aware of their own credit card data. The company’s strategy is to make the customer’s credit card data more transparent by showing customers a breakdown of their expenses and a way to lower them.

A startup that wants to bring the benefits of a big-box retailer’s store-within-a-store model to small businesses.

A startup creating a tool for creating and optimizing customer journeys so you can get the most out of your customers without sacrificing time or money.

A company that’s trying to build a “Uber for drones”.

A platform that lets you create and share holograms. The startup aims to “let you share, collaborate and create in 3D”.

A startup focused on humanizing the process of ordering groceries, which has shown encouraging results. The company is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019.

A subscription-based service that lets people manage their digital identity from their phone.

Idea: An email security service that lets you see all messages that have been “scanned” by email providers like Gmail. Currently in beta.

This startup wants to help teams collaborate on their projects. The startup’s app helps teams with a visual timeline of project deadlines, and also lets them share files, so users can work on stuff in real time.

"A startup for augmented reality games, where players can play games together regardless of their location or device, and compete for world rankings."

A tool to help people make and sell their own physical products online, particularly since they’ve already gone through the work of designing them.

Inspired by the Robinhood phone app, a startup wants to build a digital banking app for millennials that will not only give them the ability to check their account balances, but also update and deposit checks.

A startup that is building a digital forest that can be used to help monitor deforestation.

A Maryland startup that helps users create a digitalized, updated resume

This is a company that helps landlords manage their rental properties. They have over 100,000 properties and expect to see revenue of $10 million in 2021.

A company that wants to build a set of tools that enable teams to work together more efficiently across projects.

A platform for small businesses to publish, organize, and send their blog posts directly to their subscribers’ inboxes.

A blockchain-based, peer-to-peer air travel booking platform

A SaaS service that helps retail companies better understand what their customers are doing online, and engage with them in real-time. It’s an extension of the company’s existing analytics offering, which helps retailers understand what their customers are buying, and then use that information to sell to them.

A company that helps small businesses bring back profits through an app that lets them buy and sell services.

A startup building a set of tools for the legal marijuana industry in the US. The startup aims to automate the process of banking and financing marijuana, while also making it easier for legal marijuana businesses to pay their monthly bills.

This startup is building an app that helps people plan their next moves in the event of a natural disaster.

A shipping company that does not use the USPS. The startup wants to get more of the e-commerce market for small packages.

A tool for helping over-worked employees set aside time for work-life balance.

A startup targeting the US’s $3.9 trillion market for on-demand trucking

A product-development toolkit for fashion designers. The company’s built a digital design studio to help fashion designers and brands bring their products to life.

This is a startup that helps design products for their specific needs, rather than trying to use “one-size-fits-all” approach.

A platform to help you find the best transportation for your needs, including flight, train, ride sharing, and car.

A food delivery app that uses a self-driving car as the delivery vehicle.

A B2B company based in the Philippines that helps people in the sector manage their daily tasks that include accounting, marketing, sales, HR, and compliance.

A virtual assistant built on the JVM, to compete with similar startups like Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Apple Siri.

A payments platform that allows merchants to accept credit card payments in-app.

A tool that helps search engine optimization professionals track the effectiveness of their work.

A way to organize and manage the various marketing campaigns that happen in a company’s life cycle, giving a bird’s eye view of the whole campaign. The startup says it’s currently serving over 100 clients.

A company that will let companies in different regions pay for services and products from their local market.

A platform with a web-based portal for doctors to access patient information, allowing them to talk to patients or patients’ families remotely through video conferencing, or call them into their office.

A company that builds sales and marketing automation tools that are browser-based, allowing companies to manage their functions via a browser.

A mobile, voice-controlled smart thermostat that helps people save on energy costs. Once updated, it’s compatible with all existing HVAC systems, including the ones that were retrofitted for the Nest.

A startup where people can create and share their own videos to be used as a free marketing tool. The startup is working on a video series called Inside the Box, which follows a different startup every month as they grow.

This startup is building an app that allows “unbanked” consumers to borrow money from people in their network of friends and acquaintances.

A startup that helps people take better pictures of their dogs. The startup runs fun workshops on how to take better pictures of your dog.

A company providing home repair services, with a focus on renovations.

Siri is a personal assistant that learns your needs, and notifies you when it needs additional information. The startup is building a social network in which you can connect with other users that are a similar level of expertise to you. The team was also behind the now defunct

A venture-backed startup that’s building an app for iOS that allows you to flip your phone’s screen horizontally and vertically to share photos.

A new way to pay for quarterly web hosting.

A tool that uses AI to help you find interesting stories by looking for keywords and phrases.

A software company that provides cloud-based services for auditors to ensure that companies are filing their taxes correctly.

A tool that helps you map out a game plan when you’re on the road. The company’s software, which was launched in May, helps travelers manage their itineraries, organizing daily activities around the places they want to go.

Idea: A credit card that rewards people for healthy behavior

A startup that wants to get more people to express themselves through GIFs in the hopes that people will create better-looking ones.

A coworking space that offers a space to network and work, and the tools to help organize the work that’s done there. It’s designed to be a place for entrepreneurs and freelancers to meet up, work together, and eventually launch their own companies.

A platform that connects lenders to people who have bad credit to pay loans back on time. The company’s cofounder, David Leon, says the company is profitable, has more than $1.3 million in loans, and has been servicing loans for over a year.

A predictive AI firm which uses machine learning to predict which businesses will be the most successful. The idea is that you can get a better idea of how well you’re doing as an entrepreneur by seeing what others are doing.

An online platform for retailers to manage the customer experience through technology.

An online platform for salespeople to self-publish content, and for buyers to find content that they are looking for.

A phone-based service that automates the selling of your personal information. The idea is that if you’re selling your information, you want to sell it at the most efficient price, and the company helps you do that. The startup says it has already done $70 million worth of transactions.

A Discord server for small businesses that connects them to each other and can offer live support

A tool that helps people manage their work schedules, while also reducing the amount of time they spend on administrative work.

A shortcut to finding new restaurants in a given city

This startup wants to help employers manage their employee’s paychecks. The company wants to be the only way for companies to manage their employee’s paychecks in India, and is working with companies like DBS and Tata Communications.

A startup that simplifies interaction with international money transfers for consumers.

This app is building a tool to help people deal with the emotional challenges of divorce.

This is a startup that’s focused on building a platform that has data on all of the free/low-cost healthcare options available across the country. They’re building a platform that aggregates this information in a way that’s easy to use, so people can find the right plan for them.

A company that makes an app that helps people make sense of health and fitness apps by aggregating results from different apps into one report.

A new service to help users find and manage tech tools, services, and gadgets they use every day.

A startup that’s built a platform to “help companies with small to medium sized projects manage their project budgets”.

A startup that’s creating an “of-the-moment coupon” marketplace. The startup wants to build a marketplace that allows users to buy and sell coupons that are valid for events happening that day, and then print them out at home.

A startup for selling home goods. Things are sold from the company's warehouse, shipped to the buyer, and then the item is sold on Amazon.

This company is building a “natural language processing platform for chatbots”.

A startup that’s building a tool for retailers to manage their sales, rather than the typical ERP tools that are meant for manufacturers

The founders hope to start a movement to change the way doctors think about their relationship with their patients by creating a new way for people to manage their health, which could save millions of people from medical mistakes, unnecessary procedures, and more.

A startup that aims to help you become more productive by helping you learn the tricks of the trade that will help you get more done.

A startup that’s building a platform to help users find the right doctor, pharmacy or other medical provider based on your location, needs, and preferences.

A platform for credit unions to manage their members' credit scores

A company that helps installers and service providers manage contract maintenance and repair.

City-state management software company, enabling governments to be more dynamic, efficient, and effective. The startup was founded in May, and has over 50 clients nationwide.

A search engine for crime and safety alerts in the US. The startup is looking to use machine learning to tell which alerts are legitimate and which are not.

A company that provides a way to buy and trade crypto at the best prices. It’s an app for iOS and Android that allows users to use crypto to pay for things.

People often get sick in the winter, and the startup wants to help manage those colds and flu. It’s looking to build a platform that provides real-time tracking of colds and flu.

A tool for managing and communicating with a team’s shared Google Drive and Google Photos.

A company that’s building an API for making payments with Bitcoin, which could make it easier for companies to accept Bitcoin payments.

A platform where people can borrow a car for a day or a week

A startup that helps people manage their digital health data, including blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol in a more holistic way. It launches with a blood pressure and blood sugar monitor.

This startup is building an application that connects credit unions with third parties like landlords, allowing them to provide credit to their members at a lower cost than in-person lenders.

A startup that used to be about doing silly things and now is about investing.

A platform for the rental market in which a person can host a party, choose their own playlist and invite their friends.

A new device for people with Parkinson’s disease that uses magnetism to communicate with sensors to help identify and treat the disease.

Smart home system that helps eliminate the need for people to put down their phones to manage their homes.

A data visualization platform that helps channel partners and advertisers learn about TV viewing habits, ultimately helping them determine the best times to advertise.

SaaS to help companies establish a culture with their employees. The company works by creating a team mix that fits each company’s culture, with a focus on mandating company culture.

A startup that wants to add interactive games to a TV broadcast of a big game, and bring sports fans to the game and keep them engaged for longer than the halftime show.

A social network for people who want to share their love of opera. The startup has raised $2.6M.

An AI-based solution for managing HR. HR24 claims to have a unique process for hiring, which they say is 15x faster than the average hiring process.

A company that helps employers build out a network of employees they can track and manage.

A company that makes tools for the non-profit and humanitarian space. It recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding.

A social discovery platform that helps you find new places to travel to.

A dating app that aims to help you meet people by matching you with your friends.

A tool for helping people and companies create better ads based on what works best

A secure messaging app that lets individuals and businesses send secure one-time messages

The idea is to help companies like Uber, Lyft, and others in the ride-sharing space figure out how to spend their capital more effectively. Lyft itself is working with a number of startups to do just that.

A startup that connects people who are looking to hire a nanny to people looking for work as a nanny

A video-sharing platform for travel experts, musicians, and filmmakers.

The founders of Zapier want to make it easy to set up a set of apps to automatically trigger each other. They say they have over 35,000 users and are profitable.

A freelancer platform for the film, gaming, and advertising industries.

A startup that helps people who have bought a home and are moving in, and then helps them find a contractor to make small home improvements

A digital insurance company that enables companies to offer health plans. It’s currently working with both employers and individuals.

A “maker” version of Slack, where people can build their own add-ons and plugins for Slack

This is a book publisher that helps authors make money from their work, by selling digital and physical copies to readers, then compensating authors with royalty payments on each sale.

A company that puts a human face on the world of data with an interactive map and tool.

A startup that helps patients get more accurate diagnoses of their conditions by providing them with a collection of data from specialists via an app on their smartphone.

A two-sided marketplace for artists and clients to make work together. The idea is that artists can make money while building their client list, and clients can get access to a large network of artists.

A platform that allows companies to offer employees flexible work arrangements as part of their benefits package. It’s basically a HR tool for companies to manage their workplace.

A startup that wants to build a marketplace for microloans. The startup plans to help people get loans to start businesses in developing countries.

A personal finance app meant to simplify credit management and encourage good habits.

The app makes it possible to do your workouts at your own pace, either on their app or their website.

An online platform that connects small businesses to digital advice and support from experts to help them grow and thrive.

A place for groups of people to schedule and pay for events.

A startup that helps teens take over their parents’ student debt.

A startup that allows users to track their digital assets and take measures to protect their intellectual property.

Idea: Bringing the first new generation cryptocurrency to the real world

Data Science Academy helps companies hire data scientists and get them certified.

People often get sick in the winter, and the startup wants to help manage those colds and flu. It’s looking to build a platform that provides real-time tracking of colds and flu.

A software that automates the process of taking high-quality photos of products for online stores and catalogs

A startup that wants to help companies build special-purpose blockchains for their use cases, eliminating the need to create an entirely new blockchain. The startup is currently focusing on the health industry, with an emphasis on micropayments.

The startup’s goal is to help those who’ve lost their jobs to find new jobs. The startup aims to help employers and job seekers reconnect by giving people instant access to candidates.

This startup has a tool for mobile-first companies, building software to help companies track and monitor their users.

A tool for restaurants to help them create menus and sales and reservations.

A startup for monitoring and measuring the usage of workplace facilities like gyms and bike racks. The startup is based in the US, but is looking to expand globally.

The idea is to be an online marketplace for companies to buy and sell their parts. Each part has a unique identifier that allows them to track their whereabouts. The founders say they have raised $8.5 million to date and are already working with over 10 companies.

A way for hospitality workers to help customers by answering questions about local attractions, food recommendations and more.

A startup for the deaf and hard of hearing that utilizes text to speech to allow people to connect with others in real time.

A startup that hopes to use machine learning and cloud computing to help analyze data and spot potential fraud in online transactions.

A company that sells the ability to connect with the Internet through your phone

A “marketplace for helping people sell their used fitness gear”.

A platform that allows users to build their own websites with an easy to use drag and drop interface. The site automates things like social sharing and other links.

A platform that helps fund your first 100,000 dollars in your business.

A company that makes it easier to measure and manage the environmental impact of a company’s operations.

Collaborative legal system that connects lawyers and clients to serve as a mediation tool.

This startup hopes to make it easier for people to buy and swap in-home devices, providing a single platform for finding compatible parts, warranties, and repairs.

A plan to make medical care in developing countries more accessible.

Solar-powered bottle caps that allow users to keep track of the amount of time they’ve spent at the gym.

A startup that aims to help people with severe anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues find the resources they need to get better

A company that provides on-demand delivery of grocery items to homes in the US. The startup, which was founded in July, is focused on expanding its brand to other cities.

The startup is developing a personalized learning platform that connects students with academic experts, helping them identify their strengths and weaknesses and to improve their grades. In a space that typically focuses on grades, the startup is looking to provide a holistic approach to learning.

Idea: A mobile application that lets you hire people on-demand to do tasks around the house

"It’s in the works," said Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist who has invested in the company. "We’re thinking about a lot of things that I can’t talk about today."

The startup is building a product that helps users experience their music in a way that’s more similar to how music is experienced in real life. It’s a 360-degree surround sound speaker for headphones that connects to a phone via Bluetooth.

This startup is building a consumer-facing marketplace for the home-sharing economy, where people can find a roommate to live in their home.

A specialist in helping startups unify their data. The startup’s technology is primarily focused on helping businesses unify their data, but it also makes it easier for individual consumers to do the same.

This company wants to make it easier for service companies to manage their customers' data. Its software will manage customer relations, customer support, billing, and other tasks. Its founding team includes veterans of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Box.

A tool for booking and tracking events such as English classes, chef’s classes, and yoga classes.

A startup that helps companies understand their customers and increase sales. They’ve raised a $1.8M seed round.

A platform providing an interface for companies to manage and monitor their products, along with building a marketplace for reselling and supporting them. They’ve raised $2.3 million.

A startup that provides a platform where you can hire someone to help you with your small business (such as bookkeeping)

A platform for hiring in the restaurant industry, connecting restaurant owners to workers and making it easier for restaurants to get their staff and pay them.

A “family-friendly” social network for college students.

A web application that would allow you to manage all of your ‘to-do’ items in one place.

A tool for helping commuters get to their train station on time, called "Trip Planner."

“A game-centric ad network for publishers and brands”, with a focus on games.

This startup is building a way for people to buy and sell used items at a fraction of the cost of new goods.

Market research tool that gathers data on amateur athletes and coaches. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up 8,000 coaches and they’re growing fast.

A startup that provides data about charities so you can see how much they are spending on administration vs program expenses

A machine learning engine for email. Its goal is to help companies build artificial intelligence-based tools for customer service teams.

A company that says it’s helping people get paid faster by taking on the “pain points” of legacy payment methods and automating them. The startup is building a payment platform that connects to any existing bank account and can be integrated with existing systems.

This health data startup aims to make it easier for people to track their fitness data, and leverage that data to improve their health and wellness.

A tool helps auto manufacturers create highly efficient car designs. It can review thousands of designs, pick out ones that are more efficient, and make suggestions to manufacturers to try.

A platform that helps women get into tech, by launching entrepreneurship bootcamps and mentorship programs.

A smart system that helps doctors manage their patients’ health data. It could save money because of fewer doctors’ visits, but it could also save lives by letting doctors see other doctors’ patient profiles to see if they’re following the same course of treatment.

A company that’s building software for advertising agencies, providing them with a “360-degree view” of the ad campaigns that companies are running. In other words, it’s a tool for ad agencies to see what Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter ads their clients are running in real time.

A hybrid product/service that provides a platform for companies with large amounts of data to be able to build internal reports, share them with clients, and collaborate on them with other teams.

A startup that helps small business owners manage and grow their business across the internet by allowing them to create a virtual storefront, and tap into the expertise of other entrepreneurs.

An e-commerce platform for the fashion industry. They say that their technology can help fashion brands save billions of dollars in handling admin tasks.

In October 2014, The Wall Street Journal ranked the Philadelphia area as the top city in America for startups.

A B2B company making international invoicing and payment tools.

A mobile app for people who ride bikes and want to find parking.

A startup that provides support to people with mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression.

A startup that wants to help physical therapists see how their patients are improving over time.

The average age of the industry is around 30 years old, and that’s not because they’re getting older. It’s because the industry is so new that there aren’t a lot of established veterans.

A startup that makes it easier to do remote work. The company says it has 2,000 paying customers and $1.5M in total funding, with 100 employees.

An online platform that helps small-scale farmers sell their excess produce. It allows farmers to post prices and where to buy the produce, and consumers to buy directly from farmers.

A company that allows their users to rent out their unused office space in a virtual way.

A B2B platform that serves the needs of HR and finance departments to manage their rosters and payrolls.

A tool for people buying homes that allows the buyer to see the price of a house in relation to rent and other similar properties within a couple miles. It’s built on the premise that anyone buying a home should be able to see how much rent it would take to pay off the mortgage.

A startup that’s building a tool for companies, hospitals, and schools to track and analyze their employee’s health.

A startup that has built a virtual assistant that can answer questions and handle scheduling and tasks.

A platform for shared office space

A software stack for claims processing. The company, founded by a former legal executive, aims to reduce the cost of claims processing by 10-20%. It has raised $5.1 million in funding.

A startup that helps people who don’t have access to a bank account get one for free. The startup has partnered with several major banks to allow customers to open accounts even without the usual documentation that banks require to authenticate.

A startup for the sales of all kinds of used goods. The startup is hosting weekly events to help people sell goods directly to buyers.

A startup that is building a scheduling platform for service companies, helping them manage their work orders more effectively.

A company that wants to build an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for the home that can help with many everyday tasks like making a reservation, paying bills, and buying things online. The startup is based in San Francisco.

Another startup that wants to take on Amazon's grocery delivery business

A smart lock that unlocks with your voice, hands, and face.

A startup that allows users to make drawings on their iPhone that are automatically converted into a 3D model.

A real-time scheduling software for restaurants. It aims to replace the clunky, paper-based scheduling systems that exist today, and allow restaurants to manage wait staff, kitchen schedules and more.

A startup that helps train people to run their own healthcare company. The startup’s team also develops and builds health products to help people manage their health.

A startup that wants to be the Amazon for home services, making it easier for customers to buy a service without having to rely on a retail retailer. The company has already signed up a number of local hardware stores.

A company that connects app developers with potential customers through their own social networks.

A platform that helps companies create a digital open-book management system. The startup wants to help companies automate their paperwork and cut down on costs.

A social network built for black professionals. It’s a version of Facebook for black professionals that’s designed for different demographics, with features like a photo gallery and a newsfeed that’s tuned for black users.

A company that provides a visual platform to visually track and visualize data to help companies ensure their processes are efficient.

A digital tool that helps you know where your car is, even if it’s parked in an underground garage.

A San Francisco-based startup that is building a smartphone app that connects with a companion device that enables users to plug their phone into a charger, then plug their phone into other devices, like their car, so it can charge itself.

A platform for enterprise scale, complex transactions on the blockchain.

A startup that can help you set up multiplayer games with friends for the iPhone.

A digital platform for designers to sell their work to customers, with most of the revenue coming from a subscription model.

This startup is building a tool for talent acquisition. Instead of being on the phone with call centers, an employee can upload their resume, answer a few questions, and be matched with a hiring manager.

A tool that helps schools and teachers manage their data to make better decisions, and track their progress.

A platform for developing, selling, and distributing premium branded content. The company’s already working with clients like Red Bull, Caviar, and more.

A platform for group buying that combines social interaction with a win-win negotiation process.

The following is a list of notable consumer product startups in North America that have raised venture funding, according to Crunchbase and its sources.

A tool for remote teams to manage their expenses, take care of taxes and project expenses.

A device that allows workers to log their time and expenses on their phones, and share with their employer.

A startup to help users know when the last time they texted was, and how much it cost.

A digital library for videos, books, and other media that are available to students at any time.

A virtual assistant that works for small businesses, helping them in tasks like scheduling meetings with clients and gathering the necessary information to support their business.

A new company that wants to provide an API for integrations between all kinds of smart home devices.

A way to communicate with one another during the busy time of the year, around the holidays. The idea is to help brands and retailers better communicate and sell to their customers during the holiday season, and to provide a way to ensure that customers are happy and retailers get their money.

A startup that’s building a platform for independent contractors to receive and pay invoices.

A company that uses AI and machine learning to help brands make more informed decisions about what products to stock in stores and online. The startup has built out its own mobile app, which lets retailers and brands monitor sales in-store and online and identify what products to run promotions on.

A software platform that allows users to create custom ledgers and financial statements, and then automatically send such statements to their preferred tax and accounting firms.

The company’s goal is to create a cloud-based service that’s cheaper, more secure, and more scalable than Dropbox, Box, and other cloud storage companies.

A company that provides a platform for businesses to build and promote their own e-commerce stores. The company acts as a clearinghouse for inventory and shipping, taking a commission on each sale, plus a minor fee for each product.

A startup that lets users pay for their own ads on websites and social media. The startup is also announcing its first acquisition, a company called ad optimization engine Storefront that has developed a technology to show ads to people based on their demographic profile.

A startup that wants to help people donate to charity by letting them gift their travel miles to charity.

A “blockchain as a service” company that does data analysis for companies in the supply chain space.

A tool that helps companies build their own websites with a series of drag and drop screens and templates.

A “one click” app that helps you quickly and easily create a personal financial budget. The company has raised $1.5M to develop a web and mobile app to help people budget and save more.

A startup founded by former Uber employees to help Uber drivers connect with riders through a network of private messaging

A startup that matches people looking for a house to a homeowner who wants a renter

A way to keep track of what’s being sent between two strangers, without someone having to physically keep an eye on it.

An online community that offers a place to foster and develop friendships, share interests, and explore hobbies.

A platform that connects brokerage firms with mutual fund investors. It uses machine learning to provide portfolio recommendations based on a minimum of 15 years of historical data.

A medical device company in the Netherlands that wants to bring a reusable medical device to market, which can be used for hysterectomies, colonoscopies, and other procedures. The device works with a camera and a monitor and wirelessly connects to an operating room.

A platform for micro-sourcing for small businesses, allowing them to outsource tasks, and aggregate data about them. The startup currently has a run rate of $10,000 per month.

A visual platform to help users track their health and wellness, from fitness, to medication, to food, etc.

A company that helps workers manage their time and productivity. To do so, the startup uses a system of digital badges and rewards to motivate employees.

An AI that is trained to help determine the price of a particular asset, and automatically alert buyers and sellers when it sees an opportunity to make an investment.

It’s a brand new concept in the world of advertising, using the “perks” of a travel-based credit card to show you ads you’d be interested in on a flight.

A system that lets people take pictures of their clothing and upload the images to a database for tailoring. When a customer goes to buy something, the system compares the images to the existing inventory to recommend what’s closest to what they’re looking for.

A startup that sells the first commercial drone to have a consumer version available, with a price tag of $1,000. The drone is made for those who want to experiment with aerial photography and videography.

A startup for product bundling, where users can buy a product in one size and receive a discounted bundle with a second item. The company says it’s more convenient for users than buying separately, and says it’s cheaper for brands too.

A decentralized marketplace for content, where users can enter their own videos and get paid for them after a certain period of time.

A way to know when a shipment will arrive. The company is building a mobile app that allows truckers to track the progress of their shipments in real-time.

A startup that helps small business owners sell more from their store by allowing them to display sale items from retailers that they don’t normally sell from.

A startup that creates white label services for tech giants that want to offer cloud-based services to SMBs

A software-as-a-service startup that helps developers manage projects.

A new way to get you to your appointments and in the right place at the right time, powered by self-driving cars.

A startup to help musicians and artists track their money, book gigs, and promote their work.

A company that aims to take the hassle out of e-commerce for shoppers by connecting them to a network of local service providers.

A tool that helps you find and book carpools, helping you save money on gas and parking

A customer service platform for small businesses that wants to be a sort of virtual assistant.

A startup that wants to help women claim their achievements in the world of business.

A chatbot for finding, booking and paying for an Uber car ride.

A cloud-based B2B platform that makes it easy for fashion retailers to manage their customer relationships with the brands they sell.

A crowdsourced news publisher for lifestyle coverage.

A $3 startup that builds a product that allows users to connect easily with their favorite brands without having to leave the app.

A startup that helps SMBs use their data to increase revenue, through data-driven sales and marketing that can be deployed with just a few clicks.

A BoxCar is an online marketplace for buying and selling used equipment and supplies, including furniture, construction equipment, industrial machinery, and vehicles.

A startup using crowd funding to raise money for a home automation platform.

This startup is writing an app that makes it easy for people to record videos of themselves playing video games and publish them to YouTube.

A company that makes digital maps that can be edited by users, then uploaded to the web.

A dateable dating app, not unlike Bumble.

A product that helps financial advisors create discounted and flexible investment plans for clients.

A tool that optimizes how companies plan for customer acquisitions and events

A marketing tool that lets you track your social media interactions, and see which customers are most engaged, most likely to buy, or engaged at all. The company has raised $2 million in funding.

An OS that uses Windows-style metaphors and a desktop-style interface to make it work like OSX, but with Windows-style applications.

A company that helps retailers sell in-person, in-store and online. I’m not sure how well they’ll do considering they’re only in the US.

A startup that sells a service to provide real estate agents for people who want to buy/sell a property without an agent

This web-based software for apartment and home owners to manage their property and rents. They’re now on their fourth site in the US, with plans to open in China and have a presence in Europe by the end of the year.

Postmates is building a delivery service that will allow people to order grocery deliveries from a selection of local stores.

LevelUp lets you buy mobile data for other people using your phone. You set a price and the app brings a buyer to the seller.

An online platform for buying and selling tech products. The startup says it’s the only tech company in the physical world, allowing people to buy tech products from other tech people.

Empowering the working poor, with a focus on women of color.

This startup is building a platform to make it easier for people to make and sell merchandise on Amazon, as well as for the company’s Prime members.

A way for people to buy and sell items on Amazon with cash in hand.

A car insurance company that helps drivers who are blind or visually impaired

A platform that helps people publish and distribute music and art.

A startup that helps you find different ways to spend money on the road.

A predictive analytics and chatbot platform, focused on retail.

A company that builds a custom website for you, but without the need for a developer. It’s working to integrate with the company’s other products.

The startup’s software helps local government agencies keep an eye on the behavior of their constituents.

A company aiming to make it easy to manage your medical records.

More than just a conference app, this startup promises to make it easy for attendees to look for and share information about speakers, panels, and the like.

A software platform that helps large companies track and manage their supplier risk. Aids in the planning and execution of supplier audits, risk mitigation strategies and supplier management programs.

A social network for fitness groups, built around “identifying areas of strength, improving weaknesses and celebrating victories”. The startup says they have more than 3,000 members, many of whom are already using the app for yoga, dance and other types of physical training.

A tool for educators that will make it easier for them to work with Google Apps. The company is hoping to build a web-based interface for teachers to access Google Apps and collaborate on projects.

A software for HR managers to keep track of their employee’s performance and to determine if they are a fit for promotion. The startup says it has already managed to help companies like General Electric and PwC manage their employee performance.

This startup wants to make bank deposits and withdrawals more efficient by making them more user-friendly and integrating with various systems.

A software startup that is building a platform for education to improve the quality of schools and the educational experience for students.

A tool for CEOs and CFOs to quickly create their own financial statements for key metrics.

An ecommerce marketplace for buying and selling used products.

A startup that tracks your sleep patterns to help you get more restful sleep.

A web-based customer support platform, Help My Human helps teams prioritize and manage customer support tasks.

A startup that turns everyday objects into impulse buys, with a home decorator-like service for shopping and buying things you don’t need but want.

An API for healthcare providers to manage patient data. The startup, founded by a former Amazon executive, is building a new API for healthcare providers to manage patient data.

A software company that creates a “Digital Oven” that turns old ovens into new ovens and can add new functions to old ovens.

A company that tracks data from cameras around the world to spot patterns and build out a framework around that data. The startup will use data from its network of cameras to detect and respond to crime, as well as generate business intelligence for all sorts of retailers.

A new startup that wants to build a “Netflix for books”

This startup wants to make it easier for developers to build and run apps, by building a cloud-based platform that makes it easier to manage, deploy and manage apps, with a focus on security.

A startup that provides a comprehensive history of the most influential and important people in the world, organized by year and decade.

A company that helps users make the most of their commercial parking spaces with a customizable experience that includes payment and, uniquely, a concierge-like experience for their visitors.

A platform for exchanging data between different sectors.

A new way to find and discover homes in a marketplace. The startup is building a platform that connects buyers with sellers.

A company that provides a tool to make it easier for non-native English speakers to learn English by using one’s own voice to record lessons.

A software platform that helps brokers find buyers for their listings, and new listings find their buyers.

An ecommerce platform for the Chinese market, allowing customers to purchase items online without leaving home.

The startup’s software helps companies create, share, and keep track of all the things they care about. The business has over 1,000 customers in the US, including Microsoft, American Express, and Google.

This startup is creating a network to help pharmacies communicate with patients in real-time.

A company that merges the concepts of an “Uber-for-laundry” with the features of a “Netflix-for-laundry”.

A search engine for medical research papers, and a library of all the latest scientific research. The startup is also developing a library of all the latest medical research papers.

A platform that provides video-editing tools for non-professionals.

A French company that runs AI-based time tracking software for employers, helping them monitor employees’ time and pay them accurately.

A management-software tool for companies that sell their own products directly to consumers.

A digital platform that brings together the power of brick-and-mortar shops, online orders, and customer loyalty programs under one roof.

A dating app that connects singles in the same city. The app works with the two users to schedule a date, with a free trial of the paid service. The founders are former Google employees.

Helping people who are having trouble finding a plumber to pay a flat fee in order to get a plumber via referrals.

A digital assistant for teachers and students, based on the way Alexa operates.

A company aiming to expand the college degree market by making an alternative to the traditional college experience.

A student-focused startup that charges students $2.50 a month to have student loan calculators and student loan information on their phones.

A tool for visually describing code. It’s a new way to describe code and help developers figure out what they want to do with their code.

A system that keeps track of employees’ and customers’ pain points and tries to fix them.

A platform that helps people find and book local services and help businesses build a network of service providers.

A mobile app for scheduling appointments. Currently focused on the tech talent market in New York.

The startup is building a platform that helps companies connect with a workforce of industrial roboticists. It has 4 customers signed up, including a commercial drone company and a company that makes industrial robots.

This startup is building a tool for pharma companies to manage their APIs, which have become a staple for startups in the sector.

A startup that wants to give people a way to share photos and videos via text message, and earn cash for it. It has a mobile app and a web-app.

Security token trading, with an emphasis on private key security.

A company that provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf

This startup helps companies create a ‘voice of their brand’ in the virtual world.

A way to let people book services like cleaning, car maintenance, etc. in a more automated fashion.

A startup for freelance designers and developers, helping them find the right job for them, and helping clients find the right freelancer.

The Zon is an app that helps you monitor your home’s energy usage. It’s a simple app that can be linked with any Nest or Honeywell thermostat to track temperature, humidity, lighting, and air quality.

A startup for the sales of all kinds of used goods. The startup is hosting weekly events to help people sell goods directly to buyers.

A mobile, voice-controlled smart thermostat that helps people save on energy costs. Once updated, it’s compatible with all existing HVAC systems, including the ones that were retrofitted for the Nest.

Dedicated to helping recruiters in the US access premium candidates that are currently unaccessible.

This company lets you rent an office or conference room for a few hours or days

A tool that allows companies to see which employees are eligible to vote in United States elections.

A company that wants to allow consumers to rent out their home or space to earn an income. They’re building out a platform, including a search system for listing, rental rates, insurance, etc. and a platform for decision-making for renters, with plans to expand into other areas.

A digital shopping assistant for the holiday season. The startup offers deals on products across the top retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and more.

A platform that allows employers to test job applicants with automated interviews and then quickly and easily assign the best candidates to the jobs.

A “full stack” financial planning and management tool, which is supposed to help people make smarter financial decisions.

A food delivery system for restaurants, grocery stores, and other food producers. It’s a way to bring food to your door, in a more fast and efficient way.

You can earn crypto by sharing your opinions on a survey or by #working for a crypto company.

A health care startup developing a personalized AI-based platform for health care and insurance.

An online platform used by health care providers to make appointments and book appointments with patients. The startup is building an app that will allow users to make appointments with health care providers, as well as find doctors and book appointments with them.

A way to manage and monitor infrastructure with an API and SaaS platform.

This is a “social media for stores”, letting retailers create their own social media accounts to tell their cool stories and promote their products. It was one of the first startups to launch out of YC, and is 12 people now.

A startup that focuses on making it easier to find, manage, and track the health of an employee. It’s free to use and currently has more than 1,000 users.

A startup that helps retailers increase their online sales. It’s a marketplace that connects businesses with a network of independent content producers who sell e-books, audiobooks and other digital products.

A marketing solution that allows retailers to track and analyze sales data on their existing website.

A credit card for the underbanked.

A smart alarm system that can detect motion and will turn on if it senses an intruder.

The idea is to make it easier for people to get a loan with a bank account. The startup is looking at offering loan consolidation services.

A way to track dog and cat behavior. The startup is building a technology that monitors pet behavior, including sleep patterns, mood, and exercise.

A consumer-facing platform that enables publishers to curate content for users with the goal of increasing interaction with content and driving more revenue for publishers.

A tool to help companies manage and onboard new hires, with an emphasis on technology.

A startup that aims to make it easier for local governments to take bids for public works projects.

A platform for schools to share resources, build a community, and budget using cloud-based software.

A crowdfunding website with a different twist. Currently popular in the UK, the platform allows users to use online loans for funding instead of just credit cards.

A tool that lets companies find their customers’ social media influencers, and helps them find their fans online. The startup is based in New York City and already works with over a dozen companies.

A tool that lets you automate your Twitter feed, sharing posts at the exact time periods they were intended to be shared.

A Slack-like platform for online chat rooms and one-on-one messaging using customizable avatars to represent each user.

A digital health platform for people with diabetes that helps them keep track of their health and manage their diabetes.

A mobile application that helps companies create new products. The app helps companies create new products without any coding knowledge.

A medical startup building a device that tracks a patient’s progress at home, in the hospital, and in the doctor’s office.

company that creates and sells 3D printed furniture.

A startup called “SendGrid for recruiters” that helps recruiters send out personalized, relevant e-mails to job seekers.

The company aims to create a better-functioning version of Glassdoor, which is geared towards the tech community.

Bizion is a network of companies that provide more than $1 million in annual revenue. Bizion enables companies to have a single point of contact for funding (usually a bank) for their entire business, saving a lot of time and money.

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

A program that helps teams organize and keep track of their travel expenses.

A company that helps companies buy the most cost-effective insurance coverage for their employees as a group.

A startup that aims to use AI to predict the next trend, helping brands to create promotions that will appeal to the types of customers who usually buy the product or service that’s the talk of the town.

An AI to help doctors and other care providers (like nurses and first responders) make quicker and more correct diagnoses and provide more appropriate care.

A local search platform for small businesses in particular, which is looking to “blend the best of Facebook and Yelp”. The startup wants to make it easy to find local businesses, giving them a list of all the businesses in their neighborhood.

A startup building a “smart” travel planner to show users how to get to their destination on time, and even help them navigate traffic.

This startup is building a new approach to accounting where companies can be both the “source” and “destination” of revenue, for the purpose of calculating tax liabilities.

A startup that helps engagement teams better track and manage feedback from their users. The startup uses a Chrome extension and inside-out analytics to measure interaction between users and the apps they use.

A mobile app that helps people manage their money. It helps users set up a budget, track their spending, and get advice from personal finance experts. It’s currently in private beta.

A platform that allows businesses to connect and transact with customers, sellers, and other businesses.

A tool for helping people with mental illnesses and disabilities manage their medications and stay on track, particularly those with bipolar disorder.

A startup that’s helping companies like Walmart, Staples, Target and other retailers create their own mobile checkout processes on their own sites. The startup charges $30,000 per month for its service.

A process that makes it easier to ship and track packages, for both consumers and businesses. They aim to use the same technology that's in most FedEx and UPS sorting centers to create a more streamlined process for businesses and delivery agencies.

An iOS app for smart locks that can be controlled remotely through the app or phone camera.

A desktop-based tool for making mockups of websites and apps.

This is a platform that helps people collect, organize, and manage all of their different loans, including student loans, mortgages and car loans.

A company that helps small businesses (like makers, and farmers) get paid faster

A three-year-old company building a real-time communication and collaboration platform for businesses and teams. It’s a tool that helps teams stay on the same page, and communicate as they work.

A startup that allows you to track flights and hotels so you can find the cheapest prices.

A startup that’s building a service to help hedge fund clients make better decisions by providing active asset allocation models.

A way to create and share temporary job openings, then pickup and schedule those jobs.

An e-commerce app for shipping packages. The company wants to “build on the ideas of things like Amazon Prime,” which is not only a convenient way to ship packages, but also a way to save on purchases by buying things in bulk.

A tool for tracking and analyzing an employee’s travel (could be useful for HR to track which employees are spending all their time flying somewhere instead of working).

A company building custom-branded, headless mobile apps for small businesses. It’s one of the more unusual companies in the program, with a very different business model than other companies in the program.

A startup that wants to make AI more accessible to everyone. The company is building an interface that helps non-experts get started with AI and learn the basics of machine learning.

A payment and subscription service that lets you save money on your cell phone bill and get a discount on your phone plan.

A tool to help you do a better job of selling. You can either search for people to sell to, or build a list of your own contacts. The company charges $3 per lead, $10 per contact, and $10 per sale.

An online bank that focuses on serving lower and middle income customers.

A startup building a toolset to help companies track data across their applications

A startup that’s building an app that helps people find and book transportation across cities, across multiple modes.

This company wants to build a universal language of facial expressions that can be used in any social context

A startup trying to make it easier for start-ups to raise money in the US.

This is a startup that takes the pain out of remodeling. The company does the work for you, and all you have to do is pay for the materials and get the job done.

A startup that lets consumers rate their favorite places, with the goal of making those rating visible to potential customers.

A tool for people to create bespoke retail experiences for their customers. The startup is looking to bring a similar experience to brick and mortar stores as opposed to startups that have to build their own stores.

The founders of many of these startups have connections in the Philadelphia tech scene. Some, like Zuddle and Zpack, are backed by angel investors in the region. Others, like Farmako and Tella, were founded by students at the University of Pennsylvania.

A startup that connects people in need with dentists by reviewing their X-rays, helping them find the closest location and making sure they’re equipped with the right equipment.

A digital communications company based in New York City. Their software is designed to help companies interact with their employees via phone, email, or chat.

A startup that helps people find and find freelance workers for small jobs, such as research, development, and writing.

A quick start-up that aims to help companies with cloud computing & data storage, making life easier for companies who want to use cloud services but don't have the time to manage all the moving pieces.

A startup building a visual analytics dashboard for publishers, analyzing their data and showing the health of their website or blog.

A platform for servicing or repairing vehicle systems. If you have a “check engine” light on your car, you can book the job with the startup’s app.

An API for building multi-device applications that can connect to real-time data sources like sales numbers, sales forecasts, weather, and other data to give business insights.

A startup for designers and developers to buy and sell development services in bulk.

A platform that allows you to automate communication and scheduling within a company, along with project management.

A video conferencing platform that is SaaS-based with a fully customizable toolkit. The startup is building out a full-stack video conferencing and collaboration tool for companies, with a focus on the enterprise, especially for remote workers.

A tool for producers of creative content, like filmmakers, photographers, and designers, to record their creative process.